Talk:2676: Historical Dates - Revision history

162.158.159.105: Add further explanation for alt text

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Add further explanation for alt text

172.71.178.187 at 10:31, 29 November 2023

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172.70.211.126 at 04:07, 27 September 2022

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Hkmaly at 20:21, 26 September 2022

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Itub at 12:53, 26 September 2022

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172.71.154.89: /* Overdue What-If (blog article) notification. */ cleanup

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‎Overdue What-If (blog article) notification.: cleanup

172.69.22.123: GPT-3

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GPT-3

172.70.174.159: Introducing zero Julian date question.

2022-09-26T09:08:22Z

Introducing zero Julian date question.

Beechmere at 03:29, 26 September 2022

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172.70.86.8: /* Overdue What-If (blog article) notification. */ new section

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‎Overdue What-If (blog article) notification.: new section

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	Funny though: What if the researchers in future will only realize the reasons for those dates because of reading THIS WIKI? -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 20:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)		Funny though: What if the researchers in future will only realize the reasons for those dates because of reading THIS WIKI? -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 20:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
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		+	The lotus flower appears in much religious imagery including Buddhism, which some accounts say inspired the name of Mitch Kapor's company Lotus Development Corporation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.105\|162.158.159.105]] 00:47, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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 I feel this one. My birthday happens to be within 24 hours of [[1179: ISO 8601|1970-01-01]], so I keep getting caught off guard for a moment whenever I see my birthday showing up in one of these contexts. -- [[User:KarMann|KarMann]] ([[User talk:KarMann|talk]]) 08:35, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 :Oh no. What will happen to you on January 19, 2038? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.126|172.70.211.126]] 04:07, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 We're going to need the date stamp format for 1890 ticker tape for this one. Anyone? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.183|172.70.214.183]] 11:59, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

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 I feel this one. My birthday happens to be within 24 hours of [[1179: ISO 8601|1970-01-01]], so I keep getting caught off guard for a moment whenever I see my birthday showing up in one of these contexts. -- [[User:KarMann|KarMann]] ([[User talk:KarMann|talk]]) 08:35, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 We're going to need the date stamp format for 1890 ticker tape for this one. Anyone? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.183|172.70.214.183]] 11:59, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
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 It is truly astonishing how many records there are of financial transactions between around 60 CE and 99 CE. We also found some 30-year mortgages created in 70 CE whose final payment was due in "00", an early Y0K bug (there was no year 0). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.143|172.70.38.143]] 13:59, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 :There is also indisputable evidence of a previously unrecorded major recession in the late first century, evidenced by the steady reduction in the number of records throught the 90's. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.34.213|172.70.34.213]] 14:29, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 Related topic: a lot of Scottish Whisky distilleries were "founded" in the 1830s, although they existed (long) before that. But a change in taxation laws made it easy to become a legal distillery.

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	Maybe there should be another spike on January 1st, 1980. With PCs in the 1980s, before having a battery to power the BIOS and clock became a standard feature, every time you turned on the computer you had to enter the system date and time. It defaulted to 1/1/1980, and it was very easy just to hit enter and keep the default. Which most people I knew did. --[[User:Itub\|Itub]] ([[User talk:Itub\|talk]]) 12:53, 26 September 2022 (UTC)		Maybe there should be another spike on January 1st, 1980. With PCs in the 1980s, before having a battery to power the BIOS and clock became a standard feature, every time you turned on the computer you had to enter the system date and time. It defaulted to 1/1/1980, and it was very easy just to hit enter and keep the default. Which most people I knew did. --[[User:Itub\|Itub]] ([[User talk:Itub\|talk]]) 12:53, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
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		+	Funny though: What if the researchers in future will only realize the reasons for those dates because of reading THIS WIKI? -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 20:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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	Does anyone here have access to GPT-3 at https://beta.openai.com/playground ? Everyone should; I used to but used up the maximum submissions to it. I think asking it for a list of the most common dates as suggested above is a great idea. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.123\|172.69.22.123]] 12:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)		Does anyone here have access to GPT-3 at https://beta.openai.com/playground ? Everyone should; I used to but used up the maximum submissions to it. I think asking it for a list of the most common dates as suggested above is a great idea. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.123\|172.69.22.123]] 12:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
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		+	Maybe there should be another spike on January 1st, 1980. With PCs in the 1980s, before having a battery to power the BIOS and clock became a standard feature, every time you turned on the computer you had to enter the system date and time. It defaulted to 1/1/1980, and it was very easy just to hit enter and keep the default. Which most people I knew did. --[[User:Itub\|Itub]] ([[User talk:Itub\|talk]]) 12:53, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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 Related topic: a lot of Scottish Whisky distilleries were "founded" in the 1830s, although they existed (long) before that. But a change in taxation laws made it easy to become a legal distillery.
-== Overdue What-If (blog article) notification. ==
+;Overdue What-If (blog article) notification.
 I just added a new row to (one of the pages for) [[what_if#Articles|What-If? articles]]. Seen last week, thought someone else would have noticed it. Turns out to have ready been published a couple of weeks earlier, so jumped right in anyway. And, as per instructions, notifying on the "latest comic page". Note the complete lack of thumbnails in that list, since (with apparently broken links) around the Interplanetary Cessna article. Which is yonks ago. And I can't really correct that issue, so leaving it as a project for someone else to do, as with any other listing-pages.   ...but that's all administratium, on top of the basic FYI that I'm trying to convey here. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.8|172.70.86.8]] 01:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
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 [[Special:Contributions/172.70.174.159|172.70.174.159]] 09:08, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
-Does anyone here have access to GPT-3 at https://beta.openai.com/playground ? Everyone should; I used to but used up the maximum submissions to it. I think asking it for a,list of the most common dates as suggested above is a great idea. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.123|172.69.22.123]] 12:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
+Does anyone here have access to GPT-3 at https://beta.openai.com/playground ? Everyone should; I used to but used up the maximum submissions to it. I think asking it for a list of the most common dates as suggested above is a great idea. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.123|172.69.22.123]] 12:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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	I don't suppose a zero Julian date [January 1, 4713 BC] is very likely to appear except in astronomy data?		I don't suppose a zero Julian date [January 1, 4713 BC] is very likely to appear except in astronomy data?
	[[Special:Contributions/172.70.174.159\|172.70.174.159]] 09:08, 26 September 2022 (UTC)		[[Special:Contributions/172.70.174.159\|172.70.174.159]] 09:08, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
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		+	Does anyone here have access to GPT-3 at https://beta.openai.com/playground ? Everyone should; I used to but used up the maximum submissions to it. I think asking it for a,list of the most common dates as suggested above is a great idea. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.123\|172.69.22.123]] 12:52, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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	My first thoughts when reading this comic was that 30 Dec 1899 was the last business day of the 19th century, and that thousands (or millions) of people were selling their worldy assets, in the mistaken belief that the world would come to an end (sort of like a Y2K scare, but without the tech). [[User:Beechmere\|Beechmere]] ([[User talk:Beechmere\|talk]]) 03:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Beechmere		My first thoughts when reading this comic was that 30 Dec 1899 was the last business day of the 19th century, and that thousands (or millions) of people were selling their worldy assets, in the mistaken belief that the world would come to an end (sort of like a Y2K scare, but without the tech). [[User:Beechmere\|Beechmere]] ([[User talk:Beechmere\|talk]]) 03:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Beechmere
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		+	I don't suppose a zero Julian date [January 1, 4713 BC] is very likely to appear except in astronomy data?
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	I just added a new row to (one of the pages for) [[what_if#Articles\|What-If? articles]]. Seen last week, thought someone else would have noticed it. Turns out to have ready been published a couple of weeks earlier, so jumped right in anyway. And, as per instructions, notifying on the "latest comic page". Note the complete lack of thumbnails in that list, since (with apparently broken links) around the Interplanetary Cessna article. Which is yonks ago. And I can't really correct that issue, so leaving it as a project for someone else to do, as with any other listing-pages. ...but that's all administratium, on top of the basic FYI that I'm trying to convey here. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.8\|172.70.86.8]] 01:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)		I just added a new row to (one of the pages for) [[what_if#Articles\|What-If? articles]]. Seen last week, thought someone else would have noticed it. Turns out to have ready been published a couple of weeks earlier, so jumped right in anyway. And, as per instructions, notifying on the "latest comic page". Note the complete lack of thumbnails in that list, since (with apparently broken links) around the Interplanetary Cessna article. Which is yonks ago. And I can't really correct that issue, so leaving it as a project for someone else to do, as with any other listing-pages. ...but that's all administratium, on top of the basic FYI that I'm trying to convey here. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.8\|172.70.86.8]] 01:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
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		+	My first thoughts when reading this comic was that 30 Dec 1899 was the last business day of the 19th century, and that thousands (or millions) of people were selling their worldy assets, in the mistaken belief that the world would come to an end (sort of like a Y2K scare, but without the tech). [[User:Beechmere\|Beechmere]] ([[User talk:Beechmere\|talk]]) 03:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Beechmere

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	Related topic: a lot of Scottish Whisky distilleries were "founded" in the 1830s, although they existed (long) before that. But a change in taxation laws made it easy to become a legal distillery.		Related topic: a lot of Scottish Whisky distilleries were "founded" in the 1830s, although they existed (long) before that. But a change in taxation laws made it easy to become a legal distillery.
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		+	== Overdue What-If (blog article) notification. ==
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		+	I just added a new row to (one of the pages for) [[what_if#Articles\|What-If? articles]]. Seen last week, thought someone else would have noticed it. Turns out to have ready been published a couple of weeks earlier, so jumped right in anyway. And, as per instructions, notifying on the "latest comic page". Note the complete lack of thumbnails in that list, since (with apparently broken links) around the Interplanetary Cessna article. Which is yonks ago. And I can't really correct that issue, so leaving it as a project for someone else to do, as with any other listing-pages. ...but that's all administratium, on top of the basic FYI that I'm trying to convey here. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.8\|172.70.86.8]] 01:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)