Sunday, May 18, 2025

The Legacy of Vannevar Bush

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“Research is the exploration of the unknown and is necessarily speculative. It is inhibited by conventional approaches, traditions, and stan...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Official Innumeracy

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Cutting tariffs by 115% means that everything gets a 15% subsidy, perhaps by a reduction in declared value. Secretary of the Treasury Scott ...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Brain Drain

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Catching up on the weekends is difficult and I should have written this ten days ago when I first found the bifold handout in an engineering...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Albeit they possess the Might ...

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Nonetheless, we have the will. Last Tuesday evening (April 15), after arriving home, feeding the cats, and changing out of my work clothes, ...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Bill Gates’s Source Code

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Source Code  is the title of Bill Gates’s autobiography. It also the eponym for the work that he, Paul Allen, and Ric Weiland did for Ed Rob...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Fight Fiercely, Harvard

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/columbia-university-katrina-armstrong-steps-down/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/columbia-uni...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Your Public Library

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You can learn anything at a library. Schools only teach you what they want you to learn. We now enjoy the “Library of Things” which lends mu...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

James Weiss’s Hidden World

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Even though we moved from Travis County to Hays County, I maintain a City of Austin Public Library card because one branch is very convenien...