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The Daily Bucket. Summer brings... [1]
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Date: 2023-06-28
..butterflies, frogs, turtles, clouds, dragonflies…
(besides birds, as if you didn’t know)
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Monday, June 26, 2023. Quincy, CA.
Noon was approaching. I’d been watching math related videos most of the morning. I learned somewhat about
The Gambler’s Fallacy (probability theory)
Moravec’s Paradox (why machines (meaning computers) are so “smart” and so “dumb” at the same time)
The Four Color Theorem (graphs; nodes, edges, faces)
NP-Completeness (deep sh*t math; if one intractable problem gets a solution, will that work for all other like-problems? Hint: NP stands for "nondeterministic polynomial-time complete" .
Russell’s Paradox (inherent contradiction in Set Theory)
The Halting Problem (the “decidability” question posed by David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann in 1928; answered by Alan Turing in 1936 with an unequivocal NO, and in the form of a complete outline of what it would take to create a “universal” machine to answer this problem, which lead to the modern computer of today).
Note: this has been another of funningforrest’s execrable irregular attempts at putting math pleasantly back into people’s lives. ff does not apologize for the attempt, only the brain pain he knows it has caused.
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I was getting restless. Time to hop on the bike and put on a few miles.
At Dellinger’s Pond, more Pacific Chorus Frogs. They’re populated in the foliage right now by the hundreds, literally.
There are four clustered together in the bottom photo.
I took a better shot of the trail clearing I did yesterday...
The foliage along the side is two to three feet tall. As I walk along this path the frogs can be seen jumping with every step I take.
..and got the title shot of this diary, the Western Tiger Swallowtail. I really wanted a better shot, from the back with the wings open, but the critter was just too flitter-flutter; wouldn’t hold still and then flew away. Ah, well. I have photographed them before.
Uh, once before, it would seem.
August 2020
I moved on and bicycled out to a bridge where I can sit or stand around mostly in the shade, but before that I walked out on the bridge to check a spot where I have photographed Western Pond Turtles before. My luck, one was out:
Here are the ones from last year:
Same location, August 2022
On the way, by the way, there were some nice clouds over American Valley, so I took a couple of frames.
After spotting the turtle, I walked down a short trail to a little spot under the bridge, where it is often good for butterflies and dragonflies, and here I spotted some Pale Swallowtails.
… The Chase ...
… The Dance ...
..almost there...
Finally, the money shot.
And, from a couple of days earlier...
Cardinal Meadowhawk
Common Whitetail
🐛 🪲 🐌 🐢 🐜
Now it’s your turn.
What’s up in your world, nature and changes? What summer animals or other summer-nature-things have you observed so far this year?
Let us know in the comments and as always please include your location, and photos if you got ‘em!
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