Regarding Porsche 911, I think they are differentiating coupes and convertibles. This is an interesting example of sometimes knowing too much detail for the crossword. I immediately put in Turbo, because that’s an iconic subtype of Porsche 911s, and then couldn’t get anywhere with the center of the puzzle for 5 minutes. 🤷🏾♂️
16:41 I'd never heard the idiom 'soup to nuts' before and was thrown off on how this could mean 'something in it's entirety'. For anyone else that was unaware, it's describing a full course meal, soup (appetizer) to nuts (dessert). Soup to nuts - 'from beginning to end'
I think 54A "Upfront payment before a deal is made" - ANTE can also be read as a punny reference to poker, where you pay the ante before the cards are dealt.
Zeno's paradox isn't really paradoxical, because not only do the length units get shorter every time you walk "half the distance", the time units that it takes you to walk are also getting shorter: Say you're looking at a road and would take you 2 minutes to reach the end - then Zeno's paradox tells you that it takes you 1 minute to reach halfway, another 30 seconds to reach half of what's left, another 15 seconds to reach the next half of what's left, then 7.5 seconds and so on. You keep adding up smaller and smaller increments of time, never quite reaching two minutes. But since time progresses in a linear fashion (as far as we know), you will reach the end of the road at 2 minutes - Zeno is just not looking. :D But the paradox is a beatiful way of visualising that there is always a smaller fraction between any given fraction and 1 - like, between 7/8 of the road and all of the road, there is 15/16, and you never get to 1 because there is a smaller fraction halfway between them.
Of course in Zeno’s time the concept of an infinitesimal didn’t exist yet. That came with calculus - invented by Newton who is also in today’s crossword.
@@scaredyfish Technically this is termed an open interval. The end point is the limit of the sequence of waypoints, but it isn't itself a member of this sequence. Of course, Nature doesn't know anything about this, it's just a construct we have imposed to make our maths consistent. A lot of "numbers" have this shadowy existence, for example pi and the square root of 2. Actually the Greeks DID have a theory of irrationals, due to Eudoxus. They had most of the idea, but they didn't take the final step of organising successive guesses into a sequence.
8:21 21a and 22d's clues don't indicate that the clue's examples are only *examples* of the answer. Is this usual? (At least 33d and 45d duly say "e.g.".)
Regarding Porsche 911, I think they are differentiating coupes and convertibles. This is an interesting example of sometimes knowing too much detail for the crossword. I immediately put in Turbo, because that’s an iconic subtype of Porsche 911s, and then couldn’t get anywhere with the center of the puzzle for 5 minutes. 🤷🏾♂️
Interesting to see that it had Ant, Anti and Ante
16:41 I'd never heard the idiom 'soup to nuts' before and was thrown off on how this could mean 'something in it's entirety'. For anyone else that was unaware, it's describing a full course meal, soup (appetizer) to nuts (dessert). Soup to nuts - 'from beginning to end'
I think 54A "Upfront payment before a deal is made" - ANTE can also be read as a punny reference to poker, where you pay the ante before the cards are dealt.
Newton is the SI unit for Force
I love the little hint that it’s not the person - Newton is the man, newton is the unit!
Zeno's paradox isn't really paradoxical, because not only do the length units get shorter every time you walk "half the distance", the time units that it takes you to walk are also getting shorter: Say you're looking at a road and would take you 2 minutes to reach the end - then Zeno's paradox tells you that it takes you 1 minute to reach halfway, another 30 seconds to reach half of what's left, another 15 seconds to reach the next half of what's left, then 7.5 seconds and so on. You keep adding up smaller and smaller increments of time, never quite reaching two minutes. But since time progresses in a linear fashion (as far as we know), you will reach the end of the road at 2 minutes - Zeno is just not looking. :D But the paradox is a beatiful way of visualising that there is always a smaller fraction between any given fraction and 1 - like, between 7/8 of the road and all of the road, there is 15/16, and you never get to 1 because there is a smaller fraction halfway between them.
Of course in Zeno’s time the concept of an infinitesimal didn’t exist yet. That came with calculus - invented by Newton who is also in today’s crossword.
@@scaredyfish Technically this is termed an open interval. The end point is the limit of the sequence of waypoints, but it isn't itself a member of this sequence. Of course, Nature doesn't know anything about this, it's just a construct we have imposed to make our maths consistent. A lot of "numbers" have this shadowy existence, for example pi and the square root of 2. Actually the Greeks DID have a theory of irrationals, due to Eudoxus. They had most of the idea, but they didn't take the final step of organising successive guesses into a sequence.
This was very easy as far as Friday Difficulty NYT Crossword Puzzles go. Maybe that is a harbinger for things to come.
8:21 21a and 22d's clues don't indicate that the clue's examples are only *examples* of the answer. Is this usual? (At least 33d and 45d duly say "e.g.".)
I have to imagine those racehorse birthday event rsvps are cutthroat given the competition
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LOYOLA is a reference to St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits.