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Re-Hydrating the Earth: A Building Project I want to do: “The Soil Needs Moisture” Problem Statement: I believe our use of canals and cemented waterways, as well as tar and concrete roads with water runoff systems is resulting in us, human beings, drying out the […]
Availability & Management of GroundWater Resources Be A Better Earthling Future Post My short story Research Thoughts Water Society and SustainabilityAs part of my series on Be A Better Earthling I’ve been researching the issues surrounding species reducing in numbers. So here is the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Basically I’ve been looking up the reduced number of tortoises of the type that’s from […]
Be A Better Earthling Life My short story Research ThoughtsReplicate Nature Replicate nature, especially with pet water bowls, aka shared earthling water sources. I have never seen a bee drink water perched on an edge that is perpendicular to the water source, they need a slope. A slope allows them to stand at the […]
Be A Better Earthling Future Post My short story Research Start Writing Fiction ThoughtsBe A Better Earthling by managing your night lighting in a way that helps the creatures on this planet. At night, when we all go off to bed, there’s another set of creatures who wake up to use the night for their livelihoods. Examples of […]
Be A Better Earthling Future Post Life My short story Research ThoughtsHere is a list of earthlings sharing the patch of earth I reside at… Link to previous article: What can I do today to be a better earthling? So the creatures who live beside me; Birds Birds Date of latest viewing Haddidas 30052023 Rainbirds, mating […]
Be A Better Earthling Future Post Life My short story Research ThoughtsWhat can I do today to be a better earthling? I am here now. The state of the world is as it is already. One cannot wait for others to take responsibility. This blog post will be continually updated regularly with new items I realise […]
Availability & Management of GroundWater Resources Be A Better Earthling Future Post Life My short story Research Thoughts Water Society and Sustainability
Understanding Worldometer Statistics – a potentially wonderful tool to understand the statistics about the world that we think we know, or have an approximate understanding of… I need to understand the data that we have to understand our planet. Analysis of Data Steps and Calculations […]
Re-Hydrating the Earth: A Building Project I want to do: “The Soil Needs Moisture” Problem Statement: I believe our use of canals and cemented waterways, as well as tar and concrete roads with water runoff systems is resulting in us, human beings, drying out the […]
Well considering that they are both long winded ways of doing simple maths with a high percentage of *%^&* ups possibly due to a lack of space on paper. Then again, I can try to be neater, and figure out the optimal way to set […]
Tracking topics 2025 Let’s keep track of topics that I research and note on a regular basis. The main reason: So I can get rid of some of those open tabs stored for forever on all of my many devices. Tracking topics : Weight: the […]
Brain Games My short story Project Thoughts
Well considering that they are both long winded ways of doing simple maths with a high percentage of *%^&* ups possibly due to a lack of space on paper. Then again, I can try to be neater, and figure out the optimal way to set […]
Operations Research Thoughts
Loud disturbing kiewiet kiewiet squawks from the yard, drove me to investigate. An adult bird came towards me separated only by the side yard fence, squawking quite hysterically – no fear, right at me! Peering into the backyard through the fence, I saw a little […]
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Lecture 15 My thoughts : The inverse of each other…. the primal’s objective function becomes the constraints RHS of the dual’s the columns within the primals constraints becomes the constraints stated in rows of the dual’s constraints. symmetrical the signs become the inverse and maximisation […]
Operations Research
Lecture 6 You receive your objective function, and your list of constraints, some of which are inequalities and some equalities i.e. greater than and less than and equal to. Remember to: Linear programme must be in standard form i.e. Maximise not minimise (signs) Equality constraints […]
Operations Research
Lecture 7 An alternative to the Big M Method. Phase 1: Use only the artificial variables (not including surplus variables), and minimize the sum. Checklist: Set a temporary objective function with the appropriate co-efficients for artificial variables x_6 and x_7 going to be Maximise -x_6, […]
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Lecture 5 Getting the LPP (Linear programming problem) to reflect the standard form that allows us to use the SImplex method: Slack variables Less than and Greater Than Signs – get the inequality to reflect an equality How: Minus an unknown variable or Add an […]
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Lecture 5 To solve any equations… Actions: Multiply a row by a scalar. Add / Subtract one row from another row. Interchange two rows. Canonical system Use the row operations to simplify your main variables x1, x2, i.e. their coefficients must become 1. Once that’s […]
Operations Research
Lecture 4 N – Dimensional Space All definitions displayed here exist within an n-dimensional space, where n is an integer > or = to 2 (greater than or equal to 2). What is a convex set? A convex set means that between the two points […]
Operations Research
Thoughts on this topic already: Reference: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/offbeat/when-did-load-shedding-start-south-africa-what-year-eskom/ Looking for insights. Interesting line from the Professor that energy is the “currency of civilisation”. He referenced: Book: Earth Systems: Processes and Issues, Cambridge Univ. Press 1999 GDP (Gross Domestic Product) Per Capita graphed against Kw (Kilo-watt of […]
Energy Technologies for clean and renewable energy production Thoughts
This is important so let’s do this: The course name is: Technologies for Clean & Renewable Energy Production Lecture One 1: Material Overview: Topics I’ll be paying attention to: Energy – and how it indicates the development levels of countries How the world’s energy scenario […]
Technologies for clean and renewable energy production
Lecture 1 continued… Work Scheduling Problem 1st – The decision variables relate to staff working for the week. How many people are working per day. So let x be the number of people working per day, for a week so 7 days , i.e. greater […]
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