Thanks for the link, to save anyone else the trouble, it seems that the rate for Bhutan is 89 out of 423 (21%) in country overstays. Average overstay rate for non visa waiver countries is 2.2%.
Okay, so I don't really understand what you're saying, but let me take a stab at it.
Somebody named GI Gurdjieff wrote a book "Meetings with Remarkable Men" in 1923, and in that book there was a kind of story in the introduction. That story attempted to distnguish between two different ways of life: a Western, "knowing" way and an Eastern "being" way.
The story basically involves a young sparrow eating cork which he thought was leftover thrown-out porridge and gets sick. Then an old sparrow says that in the old days, whenever a horse pooped you could always be sure to get undigested oats from it, but now when a car lets anything out, there is nothing to be had.
I guess the symbolism is that Gurdjieff was saying that the modern culture is deceptive in the sense that the "new" cork is not the same as the "old" porridge. So modern (Western) culture is poison, old (Eastern) culture provides sustenance.
And the connection to the posted article is that the "cork" is like the textbook definitions that Feynman described, while the "porridge" is like "true understanding/incorporation" of knowledge.
> Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) was attracted by the problem of heat diffusion because he wanted to find the ideal (soil) depth to build his cellar so that the wine remained stored at the perfect temperature in the course of a year. He then attempted to understand how the heat would spread across the surface (for a rich Fourier’s biography, we refer to https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fourier/)
But the biography says nothing about wine or cellars. I think the "wine cellar problem" is a kind of textbook application of his work, but I couldn't find any evidence that this was Fourier's motivating problem.
I appreciate that others may not have got much out of this, but let me say that as someone who knows about statistical modeling, but has no physics training, this made Fourier transforms very clear.
There was another comment that referred to why we use this orthonormal basis versus another, and I think to appreciate the full reason of why this was done in the first place is important. But this presentation is a very good introduction for someone with my particular training.
Massive protests have occurred due to obvious government corruption. In particular the housing allowance for a month for a parliamentarian is now ten times the minimum wage for a month.