All good things must come to an end... for the suckers
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Im sure it's been done, and I don't want to look it up because I want to try to figure it myself, and you should only reply with methods you come up with yourself, but: by what means could you represent smells or scents (for the human nose) in mathematical terms? For example,
Could you produce some quantitative model that mathematically represents the smell of, say, oranges, or even gasoline, like mathematical economics? I don't know much about the nose BUT here's my working half-thought theory:
My first car. Got it when I was 16. 1976 BMW E21 320i, 5-speed manual transmission with overdrive. Hard to believe but I bought this thing for $4,000 off of Craigslist. You just don't see that anymore
I've listened to so many Supreme Court oral arguments that I have fun factoids like there being one oral argument that took place on Halloween wherein a lighthulb explodes in the room but it sounds like a gunshot and everyone audibly freaks out until Scalia says "Happy Halloween"
Listening to Stephen Breyer in Supreme Court oral arguments always trips me up because at 83-years-old or whatever he has a verbal acuity and cognitive speed that surpasses most 20-somethings
I'm starting to see tweets on my timeline that can't be real I'm going to sleep
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