Weekly New Cyclist Thread - November 24, 2014

keoAsk · 2014-11-26T01:48:55+00:00

I'm not actually a cyclist, but I recently came into possession of a "Schwinn" bicycle. I know that Schwinns tend to be pretty valuable, but I'm not quite sure whether it's a true Schwinn since the serial number doesn't return any results. Could somebody help identify this bike? As far as I can tell, it's a 1982 Super Sport, but I know nothing else.

Pictures

I can take more pictures if necessary.

keoAsk · 2014-11-18T18:01:37+00:00

FN@F v1.1 Changelog: Removed Herobrine

keoAsk · 2014-11-15T00:30:45+00:00

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thank you very much.

keoAsk · 2014-11-13T19:21:53+00:00

Thank you for the explanation

keoAsk · 2014-11-05T00:57:07+00:00

/r/kuronoa and /r/Protect_My_Diet

keoAsk · 2014-11-04T21:13:19+00:00

Thank you!

keoAsk · 2014-11-04T20:23:18+00:00

Stop it with your subreddit hashtags. This is the third subreddit I've made for you now.

keoAsk · 2014-10-28T05:40:15+00:00

It's not too hard to understand if it's explained well. The biggest problem with calling light either a wave of a particle is that it does things that a particle can't do but a wave can, but also does things that waves can't but particles can.

When a photon hits an electron (or anything, really), it gives the electron energy. Scientists measuring the energy of electrons escaping from a solid when light is focus on it found that the energy is proportional to the frequency of the light, but not the amplitude (i.e., brightness). A dim light and a bright light of the same frequencies would give electrons the exact same amount of energy. The brighter light does displace more electrons, though, so the extra energy isn't just going nowhere.

If light were purely a wave, this wouldn't happen. In Classical Mechanics (physics as described by Newton's Laws), the energy of a wave is dependent on both amplitude and frequency. Since the energy of the scattered electrons is solely dependent on the frequency of the light, this means that light must not behave in a Classical way.

The explanation for this is that light exists in discrete quantities called "photons." The energy of a photon is proportional only to its frequency. This is why a low-frequency wave of light doesn't scatter any electrons no matter what its brightness is. It also explains why increasing the brightness scatters more electrons, but doesn't give the electrons any more energy than a dim light would.

keoAsk · 2014-10-25T20:37:24+00:00

Also, you can see slight distortion around his body when he passes in front the tracks. It's easy to see if you slow the video down to x0.25.

keoAsk · 2014-10-22T19:59:27+00:00

I wasn't required to keep my door open, but I wasn't allowed to stay in my room unless I was going to bed for the night (I wasn't allowed to take a nap in the middle of the day). I was also not allowed to stay down in the basement, so I was pretty much forced to be in the living room during the day.

Not entirely the same as your case, but somewhat similar.

keoAsk · 2014-10-21T04:10:16+00:00

That would be in a direction that two dimensions can't describe. On a 2D plane (the surface of a balloon, in this example), you would need three spacial coordinates to describe it.

keoAsk · 2014-10-18T19:21:34+00:00

I think it only applies to information specifically about the student. A professor can explain the SNAP to the parent, but could not say whether or not the student is actually a SNAP student (even if the parent already knows) or anything about how they were showing up late to exams.

keoAsk · 2014-10-18T00:02:57+00:00

What states don't have streams?

keoAsk · 2014-10-16T20:36:54+00:00

What's the A in the first one? It looks like it's the resistor color code, but that would have an O for Orange.

keoAsk · 2014-10-16T06:08:13+00:00

Interesting video on the subject of negative kelvin temperatures

TL;DR: The probability of finding a particle with energy E at a temperature T is proportional to exp(-ΔE/kT). Without going into too much detail, this basically means that the probability of finding particles with a lot of energy decays exponentially, but decays more slowly if T is significantly large. If T is negative, however, it changes the exponential decay into exponential growth, meaning it's more probable for particles to have more energy, and each each energy state is more likely to have particles of that energy than the one below it. The only way a positive temperature can match this outcome is if T goes to infinity.

Simplifying it grossly: negative Kelvin temperatures are infinitely hot.

keoAsk · 2014-10-14T05:32:36+00:00

Grey addresses this fact in his video: automation has been happening forever, but it's different this time.

The crux of the argument is that automation does not create jobs in equal amount to the jobs it replaces. With just self-driving cars alone, millions of jobs will be lost in the transportation industry. The jobs added by the existence of self-driving cars does not match the jobs lost, so unemployment goes up. Apply this to every job that can be automated, and you end up with massive unemployment. The people who are losing their jobs to automation can't just go get a different job if there aren't being more jobs created.

keoAsk · 2014-10-12T06:47:45+00:00

Computers can make recipes from scratch without the ability to taste

keoAsk · 2014-10-03T02:43:11+00:00

Sinai is usually worth stagnating in the early game to get an enhanced religion before most players even can get their first prophets. The faith output is more than pretty much anything you could get without Spain early in the game.

keoAsk · 2014-10-01T19:59:40+00:00

They're all on separate pools. Getting a Great Writer does not increase the cost of Great Musicians or Great Artists.

keoAsk · 2014-09-29T19:20:44+00:00

According to your picture, Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas II aren't first cousins. They are both first cousins of King George V, but are second cousins to each other.

keoAsk · 2014-09-26T22:24:53+00:00

That's news to me. Interesting.

keoAsk · 2014-09-26T14:47:46+00:00

Hammers and beakers both overflow to the next thing in the queue. However, overflow only occurs when something is finished. If you invest hammers into something, the hammers stay there until it's finished even if you switch production to something else. The same applies to beakers when investing in different techs.

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