Link. “Systems with linear equations like this don’t have chaos. To have chaos you need non-linear equations.” Schrödinger WE is linear.
Daily Archives: May 28, 2022
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.