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16 December 2024

Humanities Psychology & Philosophy

Christopher Langan’s hoax rise to authority and fame

This article is not to say that Christopher Langan – a man supposedly with an IQ of close to 200 – is a personal hoax. His IQ between 195 to 200 as widely reported over the years, has never been properly validated. I did not know of Langan until 48 hours ago. Something popped up ...

21 January 2023

Rights and Freedoms Humanities

The Belmarsh Tribunal

No – it is not a Tribunal at HMP Belmarsh, in the UK. It is about what’s going on against one person at HMP Belmarsh. The Tribunal is at Washington DC. DC? Democratic Capital – and you ought to focus on the meaning of ‘democratic’ and ‘democracy’. Now would be a good time to discover ...

6 November 2022

Rights and Freedoms Humanities Psychology & Philosophy

Big media and marketing manipulation of minds

This follows up on my post on manipulation. In case some don’t know, an infographic is not meant to provide hard evidence. It shows the flow – the process. Who said that that below is right? No one!

29 October 2022

Your mind has been hacked and you couldn’t care less!

Yes – and you (meaning most people) are unaware that their minds have been hacked. As always – I start with describing what I mean by certain keywords. Hacked and hacking The concept is of course borrowed from the world of computing, where devious infiltrations of computerised systems cause chaos. These are usually ‘viruses’ of ...

31 January 2021

Health Humanities Psychology & Philosophy

Peterson’s illness and related matters

Oh well, as I do on a Sunday morning (2021-01-31) I read many of the broadsheets and some tabloids. There’s so much going on the world these days, it is very difficult to decide what to focus on. You could spend your life reading everything on COVID-19 (Cornavirus or SARS-Cov-2). But I came across an ...

For those who want to spend their life understanding

The Analysis Tool (also called REPL) – is JavaScript code used by Claude.ai to perform the thermal calculations and generate the data. This was invoked using the repl command.

React Component – This is the visualization code Claude.ai created as an artifact using React and the Recharts library to display the temperature profiles. This was created with the identifier “temp-profile” and used the artifact type “application/vnd.ant.react”.

It now all makes perfect sense – right? 🤣😂

import React from 'react';
import { LineChart, Line, XAxis, YAxis, CartesianGrid, Tooltip, Legend, ResponsiveContainer } from 'recharts';

const TempProfile = () => {
  const [data, setData] = React.useState([]);

  React.useEffect(() => {
    // Using properties from Table 3
    const albumenFraction = 0.58;
    const shellFraction = 0.11;
    const yolkFraction = 1 - albumenFraction - shellFraction;
    
    const avgSpecificHeat = 
        albumenFraction * 3935 +
        yolkFraction * 3266 +
        shellFraction * 888;
    
    const eggMass = 0.06;
    const eggRadius = 0.025;
    const eggSurfaceArea = 4 * Math.PI * Math.pow(eggRadius, 2);
    
    const timePoints = [];
    const fridgeTemps = [];
    const eggTemps = [];
    const timeStep = 1;
    const totalTime = 7 * 60;
    
    for (let t = 0; t <= totalTime; t += timeStep) {
      let fridgeTemp;
      if (t <= 20) {
        fridgeTemp = 4 + (10 - 4) * (t / 20);
      } else {
        fridgeTemp = 4 + (10 - 4) * Math.exp(-0.01 * (t - 20));
      }
      
      const h = 10;
      const tempDiff = fridgeTemp - (eggTemps.length > 0 ? eggTemps[eggTemps.length - 1] : 4);
      const heatTransfer = h * eggSurfaceArea * tempDiff * timeStep;
      const tempChange = heatTransfer / (eggMass * avgSpecificHeat);
      
      const newEggTemp = (eggTemps.length > 0 ? eggTemps[eggTemps.length - 1] : 4) + tempChange;
      
      timePoints.push(t);
      fridgeTemps.push(fridgeTemp);
      eggTemps.push(newEggTemp);
    }
    
    const chartData = timePoints.map((t, i) => ({
      time: Math.round(t / 60 * 10) / 10,  // Convert to minutes with 1 decimal
      fridgeTemp: Math.round(fridgeTemps[i] * 1000) / 1000,
      eggTemp: Math.round(eggTemps[i] * 1000) / 1000
    }));
    
    // Sample every 3rd point to reduce data size
    setData(chartData.filter((_, i) => i % 3 === 0));
  }, []);

  return (
    <div className="w-full h-96 p-4">
      <ResponsiveContainer width="100%" height="100%">
        <LineChart data={data}>
          <CartesianGrid strokeDasharray="3 3" />
          <XAxis 
            label={{ value: 'Time (minutes)', position: 'bottom', offset: 0 }}
            dataKey="time"
          />
          <YAxis
            label={{ value: 'Temperature (°C)', angle: -90, position: 'insideLeft' }}
            domain={[3, 11]}
          />
          <Tooltip />
          <Legend />
          <Line 
            type="monotone" 
            dataKey="fridgeTemp" 
            stroke="#8884d8" 
            name="Fridge Temperature"
            dot={false}
          />
          <Line 
            type="monotone" 
            dataKey="eggTemp" 
            stroke="#82ca9d" 
            name="Egg Temperature"
            dot={false}
          />
        </LineChart>
      </ResponsiveContainer>
    </div>
  );
};

export default TempProfile;