Just read an article on Lifehacker(here), and the very first question has drawn my attention. So I took several minutes to figure it out, though the final answer proved that my solution was either too complicated or maybe totally wrong. You can try it first, see the image below,
O.K, the final answer said: The question has nothing to do with mathematics. Look for the closed loops or shapes in each number and count them. In 0, 6, 8 and 9. 8 has two of them. 2581 has two. The answer is 2.
BUT I got the same answer in a very different way, and what a coincidence, it matches the exact answer! I looked at these equations, try to find rules. And after some trial and error, I made some hypothesis.
Every number in the left equations is NOT on behalf of themselves.
For example, 8 is just a code, what it really mean could be 2.
Adding up every number in the left equation equals the right.
That make the question quite simple, you could easily tell that 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7(in the left equation) are actually stand for 0; 0, 6 and 9(in the left equation) are actually stand for 1. Use these information and the other equations, you can quickly calculate that 8 stand for 2 and leaves 4 unknown. But that doesn’t matter, the question didn’t involve the number 4. Let’s use the actually number to sum them up, 2581=0+0+2+0=2, just as the finally answer said!
Anyway, I got the right answer and I got it with reliable logic.
The Ian Knot is a very efficient way to tie your shoes. For me, what more important is not it is simple and time-saving but rather cool and geeky. Though it’s not a hard trick to play, it still cost me a lot of time to learn. I suppose I’m not smart enough, that’s sad. Now I learnt the the Ian Knot and need more time to practice. Anyway, though It might take a few minutes to get right, but once you get used to it, you’ll be tying your shoes in two seconds flat.So it’s worthy to spend time learning that.
Fascinating! I would try this right now unless I’m still at work. So…maybe later. I hope that when I doing this, my kids will think they have a miracle father.
p.s.: Remember, remember, put some water besides you like the video mentioned, in case you got things messed up.
Remember, They’re Family: You Don’t Have to Like Them
Family is important, but there’s no rule that says you have to like or get along with everyone you’re related to. If you do, you’re very lucky, but just being related to someone doesn’t automatically mean the two of you will get along in every situation, share the same views, or even enjoy each other’s company. The holidays—that time of year when everyone is stuck together no matter what—is a particularly trying time when you know that family members you don’t get along with will be present.
It’s a romantic to assume you can push through the stress and irritation at the Thanksgiving dinner table to suddenly become close with a family member you can’t stand. If it happens, you’re lucky, but it’s unlikely. Be kind, respectful, and cordial, but don’t force yourself to spend extended periods with someone you dislike just because you “feel like you should.” Be assertive enough to excuse yourself from awkward conversations, and choose to spend your time with family members you enjoy instead. In the end, you’ll have a happier, healthier, stress-free holiday with family.
This is what I just read in a lifehacker article whose author named Alan Henry. When I saw it for the first time, I thought it was something wrong with my eyes. How could anyone suggest that you don’t have to like a family member? We have always been taught to be nice to our family members, be tolerant and try to figure out how to get along with them. But if you let yourself calm down and think it again, you may find it get some sense.
We all have different experience, ideas and perspective, if we can reach an agreement, we’re just lucky, if we cannot, so what? You should know it is unlikely beforehand. Instead of making yourself miserable to deal with such stuff, why not just admit it and stick your way. Family members are blood-bonded, that’s true…and that’s all. If your ever sincerely tried to be a reasonable person and they still don’t give some positive responds, then let it go. Like the article said, “Be kind, respectful, and cordial, but don’t force yourself to spend extended periods with someone you dislike just because you ‘feel like you should’”.
As usual, this supposed to be an easy task, just copy the embed codes and all should work out fine. But in wordpress it didn’t… it turns out to be a bug or an error or anything you name it. Once you copy the embed codes into the HTML mode and switch to the normal edit mode, the codes simply disappeared. So it really a painful experience for me if I want embed any videos in my post, it seems that wordpress only accept certain kind of the embed codes. I resort to Google and found an easy way to fix the problem, though I don’t know exactly why it worked.
Find your theme’s function.php file. It usually located in your wordpress fold/themes/your theme/function.php or you can find it in your wordpress board, Appearance–Edit–function.php. Copy the following codes into this file, make sure to put them in the right place, do not insert them to some functions.
What the government has done made me gross. That’s why I want to make the donation to this man, Ai weiwei, a man with conscience, though he has claimed that he merely intended to borrow some money. But I still have my worries, what will the government do next time? If they have done it once, why they cannot do it for the second time and why they cannot do it more viciously? After all, they’re shameless and afraid of nothing. So this time I won’t donate much(even if I did, it won’t make much difference I suppose), $10 is just my attitude, appreciate the brave man and despise the shameless authority.
It’s been a long time since the last time I saw such encouraging video. I do should watch these videos every day to draw energy from them and keep following my dream. Like what has been said in this video,
A free man is someone who is true to be himself. Who follows his dreams and turns them into reality. You have to put fear to one side, it will always be there…but you have to follow your path. It’s all possible, if you put enough energy into it.
You know what? After watching this video, my blood is getting hot. Seriously!
These days I become interested in some healthy diet, so I want to figure out the exact food energy of each kind. It’s not hard to find these data out with the help of Google — thecaloriecounter.com. But what confused me is how to distinguish the differences among long, medium and short grain types. The pictures cannot offer any useful help, because I don’t have any basic idea of a “standard” grain type, without such conception how can you tell which one is longer or shorter? So maybe using some mathematical method will be better.Here’s how:
We can use length to width ratio to determine the grain types.
Rough or Paddy Rice (before milling, hulls intact) Long 3.4 to 1 and more
Medium 2.3 to 3.3 to 1
Short 2.2 to 1 and less
Brown Rice (hulls have been removed but bran intact)
Long 3.1 to 1 and more
Medium 2.1 to 3.0 to 1
Short 2.0 to 1 and less
Milled Rice (hulls and bran layers have been removed) Long 3.0 to 1 and more
Medium 2.0 to 2.9 to 1
Short 1.9 to 1 and less
We may see milled rice for most of the cases. And I tried some of my rice, both turned out to be the short ones. Now I get it all clear.
I’m not an Apple fan, and probably I will never be. The only Apple product I had is an iPod classic, a birthday present I bought for my wife. But I suppose you don’t have to be a loyal and crazy Apple fan to appreciate the beauty of the artistic Apple products. Undoubtedly, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac have changed the world, in both ways of the stereotypes of these products and how great a product could achieve. I guess that a world without Apple or an Apple without Jobs will turn out to be much boring. Now the second assumption has unfortunately become true, I hope the Apple could sustain and the world could sustain.
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