User:Normxxx

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Current time and date is 23:35 19 May 2024 (GMT)

About me

Name	Norman
Birth	28 Aug	1932
Birthplace	Brooklyn,	New York
Residence	Southern Maryland	Washington, D.C. suburb
Education	C.C.N.Y.; U. of MD; U. of MI	B.S.E.E, M.A. Mathematics, Ph.D. Psych. (Mathematical)

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This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

This user is a Myers-Briggs type INTP.

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User is alternately an Atheist or Omnitheist by conviction; a scientific Agnostic by pure reason; and a Religious Pluralist by inclination.

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This user strongly supports the theory of evolution.

I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.

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This user contributes using Microsoft Windows 7.

Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain.

LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.

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Major contributions

Articles on which I've done a significant amount of work.

• Acceptance test
• Adverse selection
• Analog computer
• Architecture and Architecture (disambiguation)
• Automation
• Catastrophic failure
• Computer software
• Corporate governance
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Data Processor
• Deadlock
• Deflation (economics)
• Engineer
• Engineering
• Event handler
• Exclusive
• Exhaust
• HOL
• Hybrid computer
• Inclusive
• Insourcing
• Interface Control Document
• Interrupt handler
• KISS principle
• Mind-body problem
• Object-oriented programming
• Operational definition
• Paleolithic
• Process (computing)
• Reentrant
• Social progress
• Software architect
• Software architecture
• Solipsism
• Specification
• Stand-alone
• Stock exchange
• Stock Market
• System
• Systems engineering
• Technician
• Technology
• Thrash (computer science)
• Work-around

Articles I've created

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• Hardware architect
• Hardware architecture
• Systems architect
• Systems architecture
• Wikipedia:Starter toolset

Major Interests

• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of physics | Interpretation of quantum mechanics | Philosophy of space and time
• Philosophy of biology | Anthropology
• Securities market trading
• Opera, Folk music, Operetta, musical theater, popular vocals (especially from the '20s, 30's, 40s, and 50s)— all forms of sung music that have a pleasant melody (even some rock music).

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SB19

"Gento" is a song recorded by the Filipino boy band SB19 (pictured). It was written by the band's leader, Pablo, and produced along with his brother Joshua Daniel Nase and the record producer Simon Servida. The lyrics of the pop and hip hop track are themed around empowerment and use gold mining as a metaphor for achieving success. Sony Music Philippines released the song on May 19, 2023, as the lead single from the boy band's second extended play (EP), Pagtatag! (2023). The song won multiple awards, and critics praised its catchiness and lyricism. A dance challenge set to the song became a trend on TikTok. "Gento" achieved top-15 chart positions in the Philippines and on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart; SB19 became the first Filipino group to enter the chart. The band promoted the song with a music video depicting them mining for gold and with various live performances, including on their Pagtatag! World Tour. (Full article...)

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May 19: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey (1919)

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• 1655 – Anglo-Spanish War: England invaded Spanish Jamaica, capturing it a week later.
• 1743 – French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin published the design of a mercury thermometer using the centigrade scale, with 0 representing the melting point of water and 100 its boiling point.
• 1828 – The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.
• 1915 – First World War: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the third attack on Anzac Cove, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Ottoman forces.
• 2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured) took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, England.

• Alcuin (d. 804)
• Claude Vignon (b. 1593)
• Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
• John Gorton (d. 2002)

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The acorn is the nut of the oak tree and its close relatives, in the family Fagaceae. Acorns usually contain a seedling surrounded by two cotyledons (seedling leaves), enclosed in a tough shell known as the pericarp, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. This acorn of the species Quercus robur (the pedunculate oak), with a length of 25 millimetres (1 inch), was photographed in Keila, Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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