On 2016/08/26 By Dan SlimmonIn Statistics and probability You only need to learn a little bit of queueing theory before you start getting that ecstatic “everything is connected!” high that good math…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/raise-your-hand-if-you-think-this-is-a-good-idea.html If the Food and Drug Administration decides to update Covid-19 vaccines to take better aim at Omicron or other variants, it is unlikely to go it alone. Instead, a…

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eight-degrees-ignorance-and-stupidity Authored by Darren Smith via JonathanTurley.org, Our host on numerous occasions makes a strong case in labeling today’s zeitgeist as “The Age of Rage”. It would certainly seem to…

Directed by Charles and Ray Eames, the legendary husband-and-wife filmmaking and design team, the classic short Powers of Ten (1977) invited viewers to contemplate the edges of our understanding of…

https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/228254/can-an-athletes-blood-enhance-brainpower fahrbot-bot shares a report from The New York Times: What if something in the blood of an athlete could boost the brainpower of someone who doesn’t or can’t exercise?…

Mathematically, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a lower bound on the product of uncertainties of a pair of conjugate variables. The most well-known expression takes the position and momentum to…

https://physhistory.com/2021/09/13/maxwells-demon/ Entropy is a thermodynamic property that measures the amount of disorder in a system. The second law of thermodynamics states that a system entropy can never decrease. If the…

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/maxwells-influence-on-our-understanding-of-physical-reality-9b92c01631b6 “From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the…

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