KNOWLEDGE OF MANY THINGS IS THE SWORD UNSEEN

The title phrase of this post means nothing to almost everyone now. It may mean something if you read Tracy Kidder’s book “Soul of a New...

It is canonical, classical, and simple conventional wisdom that what clean energy (solar and wind) really needs is a vast scalable energy...

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old—...

Wilber Fulker, a 6-year old here during Christmas of 1924, recalls wrapping up in two bear skin robes and numerous other blankets. He...

Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs. Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/24/1017822/green-hydrogen-clean-energy/ Any dirty, carbon-emitting IC engine can be easily...

My Mom died. Here is what we (the siblings, including spouses) wrote as an obituary: MARIE E. CAREW September 8, 1931...

Kurt Godel Alan Turing Donald Knuth Of course, it is a bit presumptuous to include Dr. Knuth in that list. He is still alive and working...

I have put asterisk/star beside those aphorisms that are (to me) most egregiously false: > Everything is temporary, including yourself....

It is a cliche` to say "Weddings when one is young, and funerals when one is old". Such truisms bite harder as you live through them. ...

There are real issues of scale at play in this. To take an analogy: an experienced, diligent, and capable construction worker-type person...

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Tom Griesan is a colleague who I have known and worked with for years. One of his daughters (not Lily) was in my Abigail's class in...

My own guess is not that AI will by itself invent new coding languages, but rather I believe that AI-aided programming (AAP) will...

1. Bet 1 unit on RED 2. If you win, change color, and re-wind amount: bet 1 unit on BLACK. 3. If you lose at Step 1 or 4, double your bet...

These goals are now (as of Sep2022) referred to as "the Global Goals". Note that Bill Gates via Gatesnotes.com is still pursuing...

A computer program (and software in general) is "built from scratch" by writing code. Programmers are encouraged to include and use...

This quickly devolves into terminology and what is meant by this or that. HOWEVER, and in any case, I believe that Eckert and Mauchley...