#NapkinMath

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-23

👃✨ In today's groundbreaking revelation, we discover that each breath contains a molecule of Caesar's ancient . 🤢 Who knew that Fermi estimation and "napkin math" could make history so... *inhalable*? 📜💨
charliesabino.com/caesars-last

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-21

🚀 Behold the Napkin Math , where the universe is reduced to a series of napkin scribbles, dividing humanity into laughably vague categories. 🤔 From "individual person" to "Facebook users," this revolutionary tool promises to change the way you pretend to understand anything. 📊 Because who needs precision when you have a napkin and some numbers? 🤦‍♂️
taylor.town/napkin-math

2024-04-01

intouchweekly.com/posts/king-c

although it didn’t seem logical to me, suspected it was pancreatic cancer based on region of inquiry

My dad & my uncle at 72 rare form & 75 common form respectively, died of pancreatic cancer 6 months to the day from each other

It was not pretty & 8-12 months from Dx to death

They however survived the🇰🇷🇰🇵war. My dad told me they would powder the kids in DDT head to toe to de-louse😱. My dad’s diet was veritable hippie-esque vs my uncle who ate🍰🐄& drank Diet Coke for decades

Charles OTOH lived a lifelong life of privilege & is known for his organic food farming practices etc plus his elders lived to nearly 100..

-25 to -30 years off predicted lifespan is what we estimated 2 years ago #napkinMath
@jmcrookston

2023-02-28

@ZeroCovidColin

zeroes.ca/@radsci/109389751056

If they had data missing from NY… probably also from other places too

Recall myself flipping out during that time looking at South Korea since they were at the time testing & based on population differences it was 25x? But🇰🇷was still masking… so 44x😳 sadly makes complete sense

Got to go find my #napkinMath

But hey, EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY is doing what NY did 3/2022

I’m done. I can’t. F**k this.

Screenshot of NYC Biobot showing data gap between June 8, 2022Data gap until December 14, 2022

There is a tiny dot of data in late August AFTER the BA.4/5 surge
2023-01-30

@Njord @tomchappell
My #napkinMath friend! Best term introduction ever:)

Think what’s important to note here is the amount of time it takes to get infected has gone from Wild strain approx 10-15 minutes to now far far less than 1 minute #viralDose

observation of acquaintances it appears there is some sort of very temporary #immunity but my belief is they’ve constant infections until very mutated #variant makes them visibly ill again

this is no way to live💔

Michal :verified: :btw:michal@kottman.xyz
2023-01-29

Assuming electricity cost of ~0.20€/KWh, every 1W of always-on device costs you ~1.75€ per year (0.001 * 24 * 365 * 0.2 = 1.752).

So that old TV that sips 30W on standby costs you 50€ per year to have plugged in.

ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statisti

#Energy #Cost #NapkinMath #RuleOfThumb #AmIDoingTagsRight

2022-12-12

Yesterday, my spouse opened the door to our apartment for 2 seconds. Unlike July, I had windows open, filters on etc

I THOUGHT I WAS SAFE… but I have tell-tale exposure signs. Not anything close to or as bad as what happened in July b/c it was heavily diluted… & probs b/c I had 2 illegal shots of #Novavax #IWantMyNovavax for all

Whatever is #circulating currently, it’s more contagious than BA.5 & my calculations #NapkinMath for that was 10 inhales🚫😷for 18.6

R22 is <then that for certain

Michal :verified: :btw:michal@kottman.xyz
2022-11-24

A light-nanosecond is ~30cm, each meter is ~3 light-nanoseconds, kilometer is ~3 light-microseconds, etc.

youtu.be/9eyFDBPk4Yw - lecture by Grace Hopper
wolframalpha.com/input?key=&i=

#napkinmath

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