Link. We should encourage NYT to carry on
Author Archives: jgordon
“you’re a Navy SEAL, yes, you’ll sacrifice yourself.”
Link. Hell.
“Musk’s harassment of Lopez is obsessive and deranged,”
Link. Twitter should ban Musk. Their standards are meaningless.
“Trump hires people without the judgment, qualifications, ethical foundations, and moral stature to run an underground bum-fighting operation”
Link. GOP digging a historic hole. To be fair, who else would work with Trump?
In Italy too, populism is magical thinking.
Link. Anti-enlightenment movements.
“Judge Kavanaugh has reconsidered some of his views since then”
Link. No longer thinks obstructing justice is grounds for impeachment. Hilarious.
Liberating Android: cross-platform frameworks.
Link. Android itself is multi-platform. (Also, yeah, web is “dead”.)
American native dogs were wiped out.
Link. Canine distemper?
You CAN lose weight by (serious) exercise. Damnit!
Link. So frustrating that it took years to do the obvious study. Real exercise, not puny “30 minute walk”
“United States seems to have almost caught up with most of the rest of the industrialized world’s low fertility rates.”
Link. Better IUDs a factor. Bad time to discourage immigration
Hopeful signs in political preferences of under-30 women.
Link. Only meaningful if they vote. They didn’t for HRC.
“HCQ-treated mice also show a Golgi disorganization in kidney and intestinal tissues.”
Link. Gulp.
NYT struggles to describe Trump’s acceptance of nuclear North Korea.
Link. Don’t bother with logic.
Axolotl genome is screwy: “10 times longer than the human genome”
Link. They can regenerate limbs.
Planet Nine may hide for decades
Link. We will get it. Sooner or later.
Putin poisons two more Britains. (probably)
Link. Trump’s friend. Infuriating
Sto Maps App Rerouting You
Link. We need the switch. Esp on bike routes! “turn off Cellular Data”
Latest public details on rescue plan for stranded kids
Link. A world of resources
Early climate models worked reasonably well
Link. Trees doing badly in Twin Cities MN.
In 1914, Batman was Judex
Link. French superhero movie.
China 2025 won’t be derailed by Trump
Link. Automation accelerates
Caring for Autistic Patients (ER CAST).
Link. “Remembering that these patients are, or hopefully were at some point, deeply loved might help you help them” Read the synopsis, if you’re a physician listen to the podcast.
OS/2 Museum: OS/2, vintage PC computing, and random musings
Link. OS/2 magazine published an article of mine. Great blog.
A Brief History of Unreal Mode
Link. I have PTSD from QEMM. This produced flashbacks.
“Clash of Clans, which App Annie says has earned over $4 billion”
Link. Oh.
Radical Democrats Are Pretty Reasonable
Link. We are a reasonable bunch
Immigration crisis … in Europe.
Link. Demographics and climate
Immigration within DHS: ICE and others.
Link. A primer.
Lyft and Uber: cars, maps, bikes, scooters and public transit
Link. Promising.
China stock market: “$2 trillion from the value of stocks since a January peak.”
Link. Trade war a factor. Rebound at moment.
“new socialist movement doesn’t look that different from a standard progressive Democratic agenda”
Link. Reasonable wine, new label.
Expose your feed: “a link in the head of your page1 and a link in the body with an RSS icon”
Link. RSS is a tell for a Guardian of the Enlightenment.
“Apple Music will use adaptive streaming techniques to play music when streaming over cellular”
Link. Didn’t know this setting
James Webb Space Telescope … 2026?
Link. Best bet.
“500px has wiped out over 1 million of the Creative Commons photos photographers had uploaded to the service.”
Link. Information wants to be gone.
Fandom and gender communities: Tumblr retrospective.
Link. Seeking a heaven to rule.
“Democrats’ tolerance for paranoia and extremism won’t ever match that of core Trump voters.”
Link. We must fight in cold blood.
Messaging 2018: the chaos continues
Link. Pity Google having to work with carriers
More drug shortages.
Link. Explanations curiously absent. America only?
NK denuclearization: plans exist
Link. Good summary of approaches
“Obama Foundation is designed to be a grand, global convening zone for younger generations of leaders”
Link. Obama focused on writing and building the future.
Trump seeks end Iranian theocracy.
Link. Joint project with Saudi Arabia.
Enceladus: “a layer of floating organic material in that subsurface ocean”
Link. Wish we’d given it a simpler name.
NYT catalogs most recent Trump lies.
Link. They are getting good at this.
Texas soecial election: “extremely low-turnout election”
Link. Has turnout been high in amy special election?
“liberalism first died in the late 1870s”
Link. We persist. Empiricism, including science, should be recognized as a core component of liberal thought. Reality matters.
When will AI explore equivalent representations in math-space?
Wiles proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem borrowed from from algebraic geometry and number theory (Wikipedia). Presumably these are equivalent representations for some problems. I imagine this as the grown-up equivalent of switching from Cartesian to polar coordinates to solve a freshman physics problem.
I wonder when AI will start exploring math-space, searching for more of these unexpected alignments and concordances.
It feels like that might happen soon, but I have no idea how it would work.
Update: from the Wikipedia article on Wiles proof, a much better example of what I’m trying to describe:
Japanese mathematician Goro Shimura, drawing on ideas posed by Yutaka Taniyama, conjectured that a connection might exist between two different mathematical objects then being studied, known as elliptic curves and modular forms.
Taniyama and Shimura posed the question whether, unknown to mathematicians, the two kinds of object were actually identical mathematical objects, just seen in different ways.
What I’m describing is an automated search for “identical mathematical objects … seen in different ways”.
Trap-jaw ant jaw: 200,000 watts per kilogram, 140mph
Link. Springs.
Noah Smith’s Abbreviated Illustrated Guide to Travel in Japan.
Link. Urban focus.
“Mr. Trudeau seems at a loss when it comes to Mr. Trump’s motive for turning the United States’ neighbor and largest trading partner into a target”
Link. The GOP has gone mad.