Odourless Utopia
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/odourless-utopia In Europe, the war bulletins come not just from Ukraine, but also from the climate front. The French government has cracked down on water use, banning watering lawns and…
What It Means To Live By Your Code
I'm deep in recovery mode after our retreat a few weeks ago (I'll probably keep going light for the next week and a half -- maybe longer)......But while I'm resting…
Can you stop your open-source project from being used for evil?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/08/08/can-you-stop-your-open-source-project-from-being-used-for-evil/ Free and open-source software licenses remove your ability to control what others do with your code. That’s kind of the point. It’s also why they’re so popular: anyone can…
The Chinese Quality Disease
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-chinese-quality-disease/ This is a very strange thing. In decades of exposure to Chinese people and in nearly 20 years of living in China, I still cannot understand this nor have…
The big idea: are we living in a simulation?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/08/the-big-idea-are-we-living-in-a-simulation Could the universe be an elaborate game constructed by bored aliens? Elon Musk thinks you don’t exist. But it’s nothing personal: he thinks he doesn’t exist either. At least,…
The Mathematics of Elo Ratings
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-mathematics-of-elo-ratings-b6bfc9ca1dba Calculating the relative skill of players in zero-sum games Chess-players are rated according to how well they perform when facing other players. For example, reigning World Chess Champion and…
The Way You Speak To Yourself (Really) Matters
The way you speak to yourself will determine your happiness, mental health, and your long-term success in basketball and life.Please take it seriously.
Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-math-error-overturns-year-old-perception.html by Los Alamos National Laboratory Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger…
Into the unknown
Christian Kortum Fun on the beaches of Blavand on a cloudy day. Jylland, Denmark
When Time Stood Still
Daniel Cheong Image composite. Sky from Reunion Island, boats and hut shot in Xiapu, China.