Aliens

This is no joke. Paris is expecting 42°C tomorrow. meteorologists
have warned of reaching 50°C by the end of the century, unless emissions
are curbed.

source: BBC

Already, many areas in the Southern US are unlivabe without summer
air conditioning. This is becoming true further North, forcing us to live
like aliens on our own lovely planet!

Not trying to be a doomsayer, here. Read the below article last night
and couldn't really make sense of it. Why are American malls including
doctors' offices and health spaces. This may just be the adjustment under
way. If people go to malls to walk in the cool, they may be less likely
to shop and buy on the spot...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/business/mall-of-america-health-clinic/index.html

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So it's a done deal: the .2% have spoken in Britain and
the country now has a new Prime Minister. Well done...
I think.

This is where my personnal experience fails to pull me
through because the complexities of English political culture,
and Parliamentary manoeuvres are in a league of their own.
Mr Johnson gets rewarded after  opposing Mrs May on Brexit House
votes; but then, Mrs May had campaigned as a Remainer, and it
was only polite to have a conciliatory government. But then, Mr Johnson
had savaged the EU as a journalist, on something of a lark. But again,
many non-Londoners in Britain might well feel Brexit would be a
pretty good idea. So well-off Conservatives have voted-in Mr Johnson
for masculine reasons. Am I onboard, here?

The government changes tomorrow. I did follow the Brexit saga
quite closely, and my broadband charges actually went up from
all the checking in with varous sites. I am planning to be more reasonable,
going to October 31st. Below, an untranslatable piece from the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/23/boris-johnson-clown-crowned-country-london-dude

Slow Day

Starting to appreciate the true nature of the Riemann zeta challenge:
those real and imginary numbers keep on unroling. It is at precise
points where both clock in at zero that we have 'a zero'.

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I am thankful for calculators.

For the first fraction, and looking at the real component, I end up near a 45° angle,
whereas the actual zeroes tend to be close to 90°. Comforting in its wrongness!😐

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Wondering where the slope of x^5 and ln(2) are the same. (Because the ln of the
suare root of a number is half that of the number!!

Oscillates

Been reading a current take on Riemann's paper
from a German university prof. Found a simpler statement
of the zeta function, which I am using to better understand
our working formula.

It is clear that the initial fraction - in a convergent expression -
is the signature of the complex plane. No matter what value
Re_s takes, we end up with a negative decimal on the bottom,
and a modest multiplier for the whole. The s as an exponent for n
serves to keep the (-1) term oscillating.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.02301.pdf

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Been also wondering why, when one differentiates, constants disappear
to zero when, if we take them as ln values, we end up with a fraction.
Turns out there is a whole branch of mathematics for that, Fractional
Calculus, and field equations in physics use this. I mention it because,
at the time of Riemann's paper, physics and mathematics were one. And
he does make reference to Fourier analysis...

Wondering...

Been trying to replicate those famous zeros, but I'm not sure

I have the computing capability to do it!?

Below, zeros 1 and 2.

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Latest

Like many people who spend a lot of time on the Internet, I follow

a number of youtube vloggers. I am a  little old to comment - it would be 

spooky to read retired folk in the comments section - but I do have opinions.

Notably on Amberlynn Reid and her inability to loose weight. A young woman 

in her twenties who has managed to get her weight to 560 pounds while

failing at weightloss regimens does invite a lot of concern. Me, on the

latest.

Perhaps the most striking feature for someone from Canada is the immense

sociological difference privatized health care can make . A. takes no guff from the 

health care system, goes from one emergency department to the other, indeed

owns the show. Weight loss surgeon, weight Watchers lady, all the same...

She pays for health care out of pocket. Here, true North, emergency rooms are 

packed and a twenty hour wait just to see someone on the week-end is not surprising.

There is triage everywhere. We get one shot, and we take it. For better

or worse.

We are not, for that reason, braindead. I know if I see a male doctor I will be

mansplained...or parentsplained. If I am told beef jerky is a great appetite suppressant,

I will smile politely. Rather go to Mars, but I will smile politely. We are beholden

to our professionals, but in our own way. He is not making money by having me back, 

but rather by processing me through as quickly as possible. So the parameters of the 

situation are different.

This said, A. needs to better appreciate her own situation; as well as spot where

negotiation is meant to happen. Obesity is now considered an illness not

because the body is ill - it might or might not be, depending on age and other factors - 

but because the fact of having become obese indicates an illness of the brain.

Note ‘of the brain’, and not the mind. Your childhood trauma might be at the root of it all,

but it is not of immediate concern.What is problematic is that down-regulation

has occurred to the point where a box of cookies is dessert. Like with an alcoholic

who needs large amounts just to feel halfway normal. If reasonable weight is ever

to be achieved, the brain - ie the brain’s chemical response to food - needs to be 

re-calibrated. And for that, it’s whatever works. Keto, WeightWatchers, grapefruit 

and eggs...even beef jerky.

So a possible scenario would be to go back to the WL surgeon and negotiate

a free 100 calorie snack, everyday. Which can be the jerky, or some berries, or

whatever is a (non-triggering) treat. He provided a modular diet, 200 calories

for breakfast, 400 for lunch, 500 for dinner, 100 for a snack.That’s 1200. He

made it easy by defining it without needing to count calories. He made one meal 

ready-made and the other homemade. Clever of him.

There is one immediate goal, and that is to SEE IT THROUGH. For three months.

Sanity with respect to food should have returned by then...

Hormuz

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/tanker-crisis-iran-seizes-british-ship-stena-imperio-as-tensions-rise-in-gulf-8qlwrb6p3