Link. Nothing and everything happened all at once.
Daily Archives: December 13, 2019
Bootstrapping: “Steven Weinberg showed in 1964, the existence of a spin-2 particle leads inevitably to general relativity”
Link. All new to me.
3x+1 – the dangerously seductive Collatz conjecture
Link. “Tao doesn’t entirely resist the great temptations of his field. Every year, he tries his luck for a day or two on one of math’s famous unsolved problems”
Gore-Tex Pro fabrics.
Link. Long time as the best
For frail elderly male veterans even trivial procedures have “1.5 percent mortality rate within 30 days”
Link. People can live months to years at the edge of death
“Given how well Enhanced Dictation performs with UK English, I was expecting even better performance than in Mojave. I was bitterly disappointed.”
Link. Wow. That’s awful.