Link. Smart Albums are the work of lost gods that we cannot comprehend.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Remembering Murray Gell-Mann – by another genius
Link. “He was a strange mixture of gracious and gregarious, together with austere and combative”
“Sometimes, at night, I dream about the boat.”
Link. “an entirely unofficial translation of “Иногда ночью мне снится лодка”
“there was a thriving Armenian population in Dhaka during the 17th and 18th centuries”
Link. Obscure indeed.
Metformin for OA?
Link. Every doc’s favorite med.
Autism Mouse Models for the Microbiome? No
Link. Junk science.
The Trump stain now covers America.
Link. If only McConnell were to pay a real price.
We need to hold Musk criminally responsible for Tesla autopilot crashes.
Link. The bartender pushing booze on the drunk driver. He should face jail time for this.
Elizabeth Warren Wants Congress to Ensure Presidents Can Be Indicted.
Link. A heroic voice.
“In the span of 30 days, Mr. Trump has enacted or threatened what amounts to a nearly $200 billion annual tax increase”
Link. McConnell might be getting nervous.
“American right and far right have been very effective at scaring Google and Facebook and Microsoft into not doing anything for fear of being accused of having a thumb on the scale.”
Link. America’s enemies favor the GOP, and the GOP favors power above all.
“It will take hundreds of trillions of years for the first stellar remnant to cool completely, fading from a white dwarf through red, infrared and all the way down to a true black dwarf”
Link. Neutron stars will be batteries for vastly longer. Make your reservation now. (Of course your current Simulation is neutron-star powered.)
What Truck Drivers Think About Autonomous Trucking
Link. Covers the range. Excellent point about main challege to AI: human drivers are often incompetent, sometimes malign.
NYT article on UNC surgery concerns doesn’t discuss ethics of breaching quality review projections.
Link. The taped deliberations were all protected for very good reasons. In part of article I read NYT never discussed this.
New horizons in DeepMind – capture the flag.
Link. Cost rising quickly, may be hitting limits of current tech.
Non-college single mothers working more.
Link. Many LPN.
Ag economists “shipped out of town as retribution for producing work that clashed with the administration’s agenda.”
Link. GOP learned a lot from losing war on smoking. First kill the scientists.
macOS: UUID and UTI
Link. UTI identify file types. I love identifiers.
What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns (Maciej)
Link. iOS.
AirPort Base Station Firmware: “eight substantial vulnerabilities, five of which are remote attacks”
Link. Assume your network is open.
App Store Competition: the consensus
Link. Apple fears competition and suppresses it
High Efficiency Video Coding (h.265): the patent wars continue.
Link. I think FaceTime uses h.265 and patents may be why Jobs “open” promise was never fulfilled. Now it’s 4K TV …
Comedy in the Israeli Knesset
Link. Must read.
WWDC by Sundell: “fire up your RSS reader and subscribe to this site’s feed”
Link. Glory Days.
NYT: ‘In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc’
Link. “Remember when the FBI wanted Apple to build backdoors into iPhones, arguing that Apple could trust them”. Zing!
Mole-Rats Are Impervious to Many Types of Pain
Link. Wonderful biology including studies of physiology and genetics.
Separated bike lanes protect pedestrians too.
Link. Painted lanes have negligible benefits for anyone.
Private phone browsing: VPN + DuckDuckGo.app
Link. Best pair I know of.
“two Department of Energy officials used the terms “freedom gas” and “molecules of US freedom” to replace your average, everyday term “natural gas.”
Link. The fact of the movie Idiocracy is starting to really disturb me.
Bone marrow lesions in osteoarthritis
Link. OA is a lot of different diseases
“Oh, we’d fill it,” Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, gleefully told a friendly Chamber of Commerce audience”
Link. I respect the honesty of McConnell’s evil. He trained with the tobacco industry. Suspect even Trump thinks he’s sleazy.
UFO analyzed.
Link. We need a distraction.
“idea that young people don’t vote isn’t holding true in the Trump era.”
Link. Hope is a weakness. Only despair can sustain the resistance.
Mueller – “the constitutional process for holding the President accountable for his crimes is impeachment.”
Link. Put McConnell on the historic record.
“low-cost products can be subsidized by privacy-respecting advertising — but privacy-respecting advertising is not as profitable as privacy-invasive advertising”
Link. Google & Facebook can’t afford to change.
Where Medicines Come From.
Link. Pharma mostly.
“There are about 5.3bn people on earth aged over 15. Of these, around 5bn have a mobile phone.”
Link. That was quick.
“The ongoing flooding is consistent with scientific studies showing the increasingly apparent effects of human-caused climate change”
Link. Red states afloat.
“cosmic web is driven by dark matter, but the small structures along the filaments form by the collapse of normal, electromagnetically-interacting matter.”
Link. This is weird stuff.
3D Touch gone.
Link. Not worth cost and complexity.
Best possible Apple Card review: banks expect it to be low profit.
Link. Partly due Apple’s slice, but wow. Great news.
“she rebelled against her parents so ferociously that she moved out on her own in Pittsburgh when she was 14, supporting herself by working as a waitress, a taxi driver, in jazz clubs and in pizza parlors.”
Link. Nobel prize in chemistry, Caltech professor.
Ms Jiang has not forgotten Tianamen
Link. Brave woman
“Mr. Trump has made fun of Mr. Bolton’s reputation for hawkishness, joking that the adviser would get him into war”
Link. Hah hah.
“those who took more than 35 milligrams of B6 and 20 micrograms of B12 were 47 percent more likely to have a hip fracture.”
Link. What’s the mechanism? Wonder if is something correlated
Ice Lake: “Thunderbolt 3 and Wi-Fi 6 will both also be incorporated directly into the CPU”
Link. T3 has a future.
“Just bring back a music-only iPod with a good old click wheel.”
Link. The clip on Nano was perfect
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.