Link. Something made me remember this paper from a project management class I took in the 90s. The HTML and PDF still render now! Eons ago.
Author Archives: jgordon
“30% of planned November production could be lost.”
Link. Even a 10% hit, if typical across Chinese manufacturing, is huge.
“Tim Pool and his horrible friends do not think of themselves as supervillains. They imagine themselves heroes.”
Link. Once someone disconnect from reality they can make a heinous crime seem a duty. Murdoch is helping the disconnect.
“Arrow’s Theorem proves that there is no ranked-choice voting method that satisfies all of these criteria.”
Link. Social science proof that all voting systems are imperfect.
Honey Bees Are Only Living Half as Long as They Did in the 1970s
Link. Suspicion is honey bees are massively inbred. Need outbreeding programs.
“Amazon posted a valuation loss of one trillion dollars, becoming the first company to ever lose that much in stock value.”
Link. I totally missed this. It’s a big deal.
Mastodon: “the “Toot” button has been replaced with one that now simply says “Publish.”
Link. Toot was only a problem in English.
“90% of web traffic that looks like it’s coming from Private Relay is actually fraudulent”
Link. Bot clicks.
Enlarged perivascular spaces in chronic migraine?
Link. Did not expect that. Good chance false finding, but we know migraine with OCP has stroke risk.
Mediocre hemophilia gene therapy 3.5 million dollars.
Link. Better stuff coming.
Mercedes-Benz requires subscription fee for top acceleration.
Link. I’m going to drive my 2010 Kia van until I die.
“Mr. Adi has seen the aftermath of many of those disasters firsthand — floods, tsunamis, a volcanic eruption — at times offering his help at three or four in the same month”
Link. Indonesia has a lot of disasters.
“Hearing the movement of blood through the body is supposedly something like an absolute taboo, akin to witnessing the fabrication of Chicken McNuggets”
Link. Anechoic chamber experience.
How Apple tracks us: “We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account.”
Link. Specifically our use of their services.
“Blogger is dying more quickly than expected.” From 2011.
Link. It’s still around and very little changed. I have given up on predicting anything.
Apple numbers: The division formula “bug”.
Link. This must have confounded so many people for so many years. Perhaps with Retina displays it’s not so bad now. Apple is so weird.
When chemistry knowledge was paper.
Link. For me it was Index Medicus. Volumes of paper references. I was near last generation to use them. MEDLARS, Grateful Med, PubMed replaced them.
Every Fatbike Trail in WI, MN, & the U.P.
Link. For winter riding pleasure.
Mount Olympus: “The only way to see the mountain is from space.”
Link. Our team will spend the first week scaling the 6km face cliff …
“we examine Wolfram’s proposal for a deterministic model underlying quantum mechanics, with ‘long-range threads’ to connect entangled particles. We show that this proposal cannot be made compatible with both special relativity and Bell inequality violat
Link.
Black Friday 2022 — curated list of app sales by mjtsai
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Epic Systems to support macOS version of EpicCare.
Link. I’m a bit skeptical but interesting announcement. Apple should fear healthcare though.
“By far the fastest disks that I have tested are internal SSDs in Apple silicon Macs, with read and write speeds typically around 7 GB/s with full encryption.”
Link. Great review.
“The rise in remote work is probably the biggest reason apartment rents have surged over the past few years.”
Link. And that is partly reversing.
“2.5 million ants for every human being”
Link. Highest life form.
“Venture capitalists who bet several hundred million 1987 dollars that AI would have some chance of being economically practical at $0.25, were wrong by 48 million X.”
Link. The early Apple firings were insane.
“Bankman-Fried’s philanthropic adviser, Will MacAskill, texted Musk on March 29 — a week before the Tesla boss made his [twitter] stake public — to suggest “a possible joint effort” between the two billionaires”
Link. There must be a half-dozen books in development — this story has so many legs.
“The subject, of course, is Hunter Biden and his laptop. Here’s a detailed rundown of this sordid affair”
Link. It’s short and a helpful aide.
Cat kidney transplant: “Losing a kidney does come with risks, as well as a lot of pain and discomfort. But most of the donors go on to live long, healthy lives—in many cases, very cushy lives with extremely devoted owners.”
Link. We spent several hundred on gerbil end-of-life care and we were not great at gerbil health.
“Mearsheimer has followed the path of other contrarians interviewed by Chotiner in recent years: they intellectually self-immolate under the pressure of his polite prodding.”
Link. Brain rot explains their resistance to reading and their belief that they won’t disintegrate under inspection.
“What if when given instructions from people, robots could autonomously write their own code to interact with the world?”
Link. What if.
“AT&T realized it had a problem. In January 2017, the company hired the president-elect’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paying him $50,000 a month”
Link. In America we institutionalize our corruption.
Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure have been effective at disrupting life.
Link. Ukraine cannot retaliate against Russian infrastructure. An unusual war.
Saudi: “aggressive long-term strategy to keep the world hooked on oil for decades to come”
Link. “Isn’t it terrible that the Biden administration is forcing you to buy an electric car when we could be producing biofuels right here in Iowa?”
“bputil is one of the most hazardous command tools in macOS accessible to the user. Experimenting with it is guaranteed to cause your Mac serious problems.”
Link. I remember when accidentally typing ‘c’ instead of ‘a’ destroyed all data and apps. (Format c:).
“has revealed exactly how little a Chief Executive can know, how foolishly a Chief Executive can act, and how ignorant one very rich man can be.”
Link. All CEOs are good at taking and holding power. Some have no other competencies.
[toread] Evolution of hockey and decline of the slapped: “Now, the technology allows guys to score from 30 feet,”
Link. Carbon fiber sticks. Hockey is the best game, but it’s insanely fast now.
If only I could shoot …
“Lenz had long admired Thomas Stevens, an Englishman who had made a celebrated world tour on his ordinary in the mid-1880s, devouring Stevens’s monthly travel logs published in Outing magazine.”
Link. Dies in the midst of massacres of Armenian people. Incredible times.
Teplizumab immunotherapy to slow onset Type I DM in antibody positive patients.
Link. Screening will uncover many surprises.
Effective Altruism: The New Yorker on MacAskill.
Link. Required reading for strange times.
“Starve them out, and Ukraine will have recovered almost all of its pre-February territory. That’s the point at which negotiations would finally become possible. Many different peace deals would then be available.”
Link. How the war might end. Good point on how small the armies are by historic standards.
Haldeman’s Technocracy – rule by the cognitive elite.
Link. “Joshua Haldeman was a leader of Technocracy Incorporated in Canada from 1936 to 1941 … Haldeman’s daughter Maeve gave birth to … Elon Musk”
Feedle: Blog Search with RSS Feeds.
Link. What is Google going to do with Blogger?
Iran: All the Options Are Bad.
Link. China same.
Wealth is partly imaginary: Noah teaches mark-to-market accounting.
Link. “And crypto wealth is more imaginary than most.”
Cable company: “Challenging publicly funded overbuilds is becoming one of the most important tasks we do as a company,”
Link. Overbuild is a carrier term for competition.
“If you rebooted every single $FAANG server simultaneously right now, all of $FAANG would be down for probably months”
Link. These systems are starting to resemble organisms.
“… there is another possibility: that Lyft as a company is not actually sorry for the trouble they have caused you … go to LinkedIn to see if you know anybody who works at the company.”
Link. We are going to need laws to punish tech companies using flaky algorithms to ban customers without valid appeal.
NYT panel picks 25 unusual travel experiences.
Link. Not my picks but all interesting.
“tau proteins specific to C.T.E. were distinct from those in Alzheimer’s disease and other tau-based neurodegenerative diseases”
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