Link. Back to analog. Reminds me of ‘principle of least effort’ in physics.
Monthly Archives: May 2022
HP Cray EX: “Frontier uses more than 9,400 AMD-powered nodes and requires over 90 miles of networking cables. Around 6,000 gallons of water flow through the system every minute, ORNL says.”
Link. Won’t be a phone in 2050.
Musk: “an avenger in the Tucker Carlson cinematic universe, alongside Kyle Rittenhouse, JD Vance, and the MyPillow guy”
Link. A is for asshole.
Bicycles and Bicycling by the NYT
Link. The NYT has topical guides – including bicycling. Somehow I did not know this. Lots from their May 23 Summer of Cycling issue. (The TIMES TOPICS link is broken.)
FIDO (passkey) standard doesn’t support switching identify vendor.
Link. The bigger issue is using passkey isn’t practical with multiple identity vendors. You have to pick just one and not mix them — or you’ll never remember which to use when
Putin’s rumored illnesses: a summary.
Link. I wonder if more than one.
Fixing Japan’s productivity failures: more capitalism.
Link. They are in an interesting trap.
Antigen testing: “20 percent were still positive on Day 11”
Link. If you are well stop testing and do your isolation interval.
“How long are Americans sad and angry about mass shootings? Four days.”
Link. Sounds right.
“Rupert Murdoch, for translating the El Paso, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh shooters’ screeds into prime-time programming.”
Link. The enablers. Fox money comes from cable. Cut the cable.
“quantum mechanics predicts that Hyperion’s chaotic motion shouldn’t last longer than about 20 years. But it has lasted much longer. So, quantum mechanics has been falsified.”
Link. “Systems with linear equations like this don’t have chaos. To have chaos you need non-linear equations.” Schrödinger WE is linear.
GOP gun control. In Florida.
Link. Required full Dem support, committed GOP governor, some GOP support. Cratered gov NRA rating but there was NO political cost.
“incident commander believed more equipment and people were needed for a “breach,”
Link. I’m glad I’m not that person.
Bypassing US COVID travel rules by lying on Canadian entry forms.
Link. The article should be more clear this requires lying on the Canadian entry form. Penalty up to 6m in prison, 750k fine.
“Stegosaurus and Triceratops actually reduced their metabolisms over time, ending up at metabolic rates closer to those of modern reptiles.”
Link. Hot blood is expensive.
“Apple released its favourite algorithm, known as Lempel-Ziv Finite State Entropy or LZFSE, as open source in 2015”
Link. Brief readable summary of lossless compression. It was such a mess in the 80s. Lots of patent issues.
Fox News: “The cable division that houses the news network generated $899 million in pretax income, accounting for 95 percent of the company’s total pretax profit.”
Link. If you dislike school shootings and have a cable TV subscription you have a money saving opportunity.
Global pathogen surveillance system: needs software, sequencing, staff, networks, diplomacy, some incentivizing.
Link. Sequencing replace standard microbiology testing.
Best Long COVID study to date: “The only variables in patient histories and so on that correlated with a greater likelihood of showing PASC were being female or having a self-reported history of anxiety disorders”
Link. “no diagnostic findings … say for sure that post-Covid even exists, biochemically” (MS 3:1 F:M and no serum findings)
Why does the Philippines elect murderous scum?
Link. “Ninety-nine percent of adult Filipinos are online, and Filipinos aged 16 to 64 spend on average nearly four hours a day connected to social networks.”
“… result of designing phones that are hard to service is that some number of customers buy new phones to avoid hassle.”
Link. A happy accident.
MPLS after Floyd death and riots: “A mass exodus has brought the force from 881 officers before Mr. Floyd’s death down to 580, with applicants drying up.”
Link. Violent crime up 36%, residents “… complain that officers often fail to respond to calls or refuse to take action when they do.” Consent decrees expected.
GOP punishes companies doing climate action.
Link. Of course they do.
“unearthed documents paint a more nuanced picture of Pius XII, showing him as neither the antisemitic monster often called “Hitler’s Pope” nor a hero.”
Link. Not a saint.
MarsEdit 4.5.8: “prevents a hang that could occur when trying to upload an attachment on a blog that only supports the legacy Blogger API. “
Link. Ummm. Wait. I though MarsEdit removed Blogger support? (Maybe it was images)
Story of Kim Phuc Phan Thi, the “napalm girl”.
Link. Canadian now. Via Fallows.
PimEyes: extortion funded face image search.
Link. Great business model.
College Enrollment Drops.
Link. Bubble burst?
“2010, Chey Cheol-won, a member of the family that ran the SK conglomerate, received only a suspended prison sentence after battering a union activist with an aluminum baseball bat.”
Link. South Korea.
“Patient care is at the forefront of everything we do at GNAAS, and the success of this next stage of the jet suit trial is a great step towards helping us reach more patients.”
Link. Cooler than you.
DeSantis follows Orban’s path.
Link. Use the state to punish disloyal, reward loyal. Pretty soon no more democracy.
Trump investors: hedge funds.
Link. “Pentwater Capital and Sabby Management” biggest buyers.
Before ribosomes: “By cyclically heating and cooling the system, they could repeatedly break and make bonds between the amino acids on the two chains, flipping the amino acids from one strand to the other and extending the chain.”
Link. Life is impossible. Almost.
NYT bicycling gear guide.
Link. I know this stuff and these are good recommendations.
Booking flights: “schedules become much more settled by 90 days out, so the later you book after that, the lower the chance of changes”
Link. Avoid the budgets.
‘The Last Generation’: “A new survey of more than 20,000 people, mostly female between 18 and 31, found that two thirds of them don’t want to have children.”
Link. In China the last rebellion is refusing to reproduce.
Family of man wrongfully accused in Drexel case
Link. FBI should pay – “He and his client are exploring options for potential civil litigation, Adams said.”
Biden Asia trade deal: “the deal does not require congressional approval”
Link. Every sane nation wanted this to work and knew the GOP had to be bypassed.
“Japan’s income inequality is about average for a rich country, and its relative poverty rate — defined as the percent of the population with income below 50% of the median — is higher than in Europe.”
Link.
Wheelbarrow: “thousand years longer to occur to anyone in Europe after its first use in China” (2013)
Link. Fallows essay on 50 top innovations. The wheelbarrow delay is a fascinating puzzle.
Paxlovid use guidance from FDA
Link. Surprisingly well done, esp drug interactions.
A moderate economist makes the case for some student loan forgiveness.
Link. We’ve done a lot subsidies and gifts over decades to many groups.
Southern Baptist: “The convention was saved from liberalism by the courage of these two men who wouldn’t back down”
Link. They did not end well.
Lara Logan traveled the road Musk is now on.
Link. Always a bit flaky, some back and forth, then full crackpot. It’s more common path than I had once thought.
Taunting Xi by translating Chinese social media posts into English.
Link. Xi is fragile.
“the median CEO uses a password that is “startlingly dumb,”
Link. Imagine Trump.
“Guidelines for managing friends of varying sorts — what is some real world (not usual feel good stuff) for a young person? Looking for a reference. For example 1/10” / Twitter
Link. Soliciting input on this early list. Might republish if I get some.
IF NO KNOWN HEART DISEASE …“For people over 60, per the task force guidelines, or 70, per the cardiologists’ recommendations, the risks of starting aspirin now outweigh the benefits.”
Link. It is all so fuzzy most docs won’t bother with aspirin for *primary prevention* unless special risk factors. Spend time on exercise, blood pressure, statins.
Read Japanese using Live Text and Translation
Link. For 25y I’ve advocated for writing styles that facilitate machine translation. Never heard it from anyone else.
The principle of least action: “there is also an action that gives you electrodynamics. And there’s an action that gives you general relativity”
Link. S=0. Pretty easy to follow. Sabine’s usual hints about the eternal now.