[Island Chris]

Interesting, and "timely"

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vao...NatureNews

Chris

poisson d'avril

[Skywise]

(04-01-2015, 03:37 PM)Island Chris Wrote: poisson d'avril

Who you callin' a fish?

My french is rusty. Well, only took one year of it.... 30 years ago.

Brian

[Island Chris]

Hi Brian,

poisson d'avril means "April Fools", and I had to Google it to spell it correctly. I wanted to put this because I wanted people to read it before realizing what it was. I should not admit it, but it had me going until I got to "abundance of knights".

Chris

[Island Chris]

Forgot to say, the Journal Nature published a paper about tiny people hunting tiny elephants and being hunted by giant lizards, and on the other article about that article, said that it was NOT a joke. That was wild enough that I was a bit too open to dragons. That was the Flores Island "Hobbits" of a decade (?) ago.

Still the last snow patch in our yard.

Chris

[Skywise]

(04-02-2015, 10:39 AM)Island Chris Wrote: Hi Brian,

poisson d'avril means "April Fools", and I had to Google it to spell it correctly.

And I had to google translate it back!!

I could figure out it was "fish of" something... totally blanked that "avril" is french for April. duh! So I guess in France, they call you a fish if you're a fool.

Hmmmm... does that mean a Poisson distribution tells you where to expect to find fish?

The article was a hoot. There was plenty of April Fool's stuff online yesterday.

Brian