Many people solve this problem by installing a white noise app on their phone or notepad. There are many available apps for this, but like all apps you either have to pay for them or they nag you incessantly. Thus, as another public service I offer a solution that is both free and nag-free. It is based on the following 30 second clip (5 megabyte .wav file ). This comes from a recording I made of a waterfall near here named Pratt's Falls. I modified the recording in Audacity by mixing it with a copy run in reverse. That produces a clip that ends the same way it starts. In audacity you can run the clip in repeating mode and it will go on forever with no audible click or gap at multiples of 30 seconds.
Unfortunately, players like quicktime that can play a loop recording like this one stupidly introduce an annoying little gap when they restart the loop. Not good for sleep. But you can easily use the power of Audacity to produce a quite workable solution and I'm going to tell you how.
Open the clip in audacity. Use control-a to select the whole clip and then choose from the effects menu. I found I needed to modify the sound a bit to make it less harsh. First I slowed the speed by about 30%. Then I used the low-pass filter at the default 6db of attenuation per kiloherz. Then I repeated the clip 1440 times to get 12+ hours of sound. Finally I exported the selection from the file menu as an MP3. (My god, don't leave it as a .wav - it will be huge!) The resulting mp3 file is about 1 gig. You can put it on your device and play it just like any music file. (You'd think a periodic file like this would compress much better, but the mp3 algorithm doesn't seem to take advantage.)
It makes sense to use as many different (common) letters as possible during your early wordle guesses, so as a public service I'm offering a file that lists all 5492 letter English words that don't have any repeated letters. Off course, many of these are very obscure so wordle may reject them.
I'm sure this never happens to you, but I occasionally screw one up so badly there's no alternative but to start over on a clean grid. This is an empty grid, writ large for our aging eyes.
mp3 recordings of my feeble attempts to imitate the talented readers on Selected Shorts
This question has come up so often I finally decided to try to write down
a definitive answer.
People are suprised by some aspects of the logical
implication connective. This essay discusses the nature of implication and
attempts to dispel some of the confusion about it.
A brief mathematical note arising from a question asked by a student
during my visit to Corning West High School for Syracuse University
Project Advance.
There is huge source of free energy awaiting those clever enough to figure out how to grab it. It amounts to about 1000 years at current levels of usage. The rotation of the earth turns out to be a major headache.
From the abstract: We consider estimating the density of points in a point process by a count of the number of points in a unit volume, and the bias that results when the volume is centered at a point of the point process rather than at a randomly selected location.
Tricky little form!
Seven syllables are fine
But five are too few.
I don't know why, but I've always loved the Beaufort Scale. Perhaps it's because I've always been a weather watcher and a kite flyer. This is the landlubber's version, not the original nautical version.
