Maxwell's kinetic theory of flies?
How many flies are in my apartment?
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Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.
Dont the windows have screens? In the US pretty much every window has a permanent screen outside the panel for this purpose...just assumed it was the same in europe
They do not, and it's unfathomable why. One of the first things I did after moving to Berlin was put screens on our major windows. My European friends constantly complain about insects coming in (wasps are a big offender in Berlin - and technically you can't kill them) but for some reason never just put up a screen.
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#23I tried showing the flies using matplotlib.animation.FuncAnimation in a notebook, animating even 1000 frames is slow and it warns the animation becomes too large. Maybe there's a better way to do it? Preferably in a notebook interface.
pyqtgraph is a nice matplotlib replacement when speed matters, but doesn't work in a notebook
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open windows for air, but have a finely masked net covering the opening so insects don’t get in.
This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.
Depends where in the EU. mosquito nets are quite common around the mediterranean, you'll see roller screens on most bedrooms around here
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dont the windows have screens? In the US pretty much every window has a permanent screen outside the panel for this purpose...just assumed it was the same in europe
They do not, and it's unfathomable why. One of the first things I did after moving to Berlin was put screens on our major windows. My European friends constantly complain about insects coming in (wasps are a big offender in Berlin - and technically you can't kill them) but for some reason never just put up a screen.
This sounds like a potentially lucrative business opportunity!
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#26Maxwell's kinetic theory of flies?
Yes, the path each one takes can very accurately be called a "random fly".
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do not, and it's unfathomable why. One of the first things I did after moving to Berlin was put screens on our major windows. My European friends constantly complain about insects coming in (wasps are a big offender in Berlin - and technically you can't kill them) but for some reason never just put up a screen.
This sounds like a potentially lucrative business opportunity!
They are for sale, for cheap, in every drug store.
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the norm in the south asian country I come from. But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.
It's becoming increasingly common where I live (Poland). We've installed nets in our last apartment, and the current one came with them already in place. There may not be that many flies in the EU as there are in South Asia, but there's enough of them to be annoying. Then there are mosquitoes, moths, wasps, bees - and the very bugs I've been installing these nets against - hornets . Before the net, we'd get 3-5 horne…
Okay, first of all, tell me more about this flamethrower.
Also, when you say "nets", do you mean "screens", ie on the windows?
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dont the windows have screens? In the US pretty much every window has a permanent screen outside the panel for this purpose...just assumed it was the same in europe
They do not, and it's unfathomable why. One of the first things I did after moving to Berlin was put screens on our major windows. My European friends constantly complain about insects coming in (wasps are a big offender in Berlin - and technically you can't kill them) but for some reason never just put up a screen.
Maybe because screens make the appartment darker?
Re: How many flies are in my apartment?
#30From experience: about 5x as many as you think
Story: I was living in a large flatshare that was plagued by flies from nearby horse stables. We were organizing a decent sized party (maybe 40 guests). In the afternoon, we had 15ish items of food that needed to be stored for a few hours until guests arrived. At first we considered covering all the food (creating work and waste of aluminum or plastic foil), then I had the idea to kill all the flies in that room and close the door. We saw about four flies. In the end we killed about 20 before we declared the situation good enough. I don't recall if there was a last fly that we eventually killed, or that we eventually gave up on killing. It took half an hour or so.