The Parker Solar Probe
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Today, December 24th 2024, the Parker Solar Probe got 7 times closer to the
Sun than any spacecraft ever has, going faster than any spacecraft ever
has—690...
How inequality causes financial crises
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from Lars Syll One way that inequality precipitates debt bubbles begins
with “relative deprivation.” This concept concerns the discontent people
feel when ...
A Christmas Gift from Marcus Aurelius
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*"Whenever you want to cheer yourself up, consider the good qualities of
your companions." *
*We turn to Marcus Aurelius for the realistic wisdom of stoic...
Week Notes 51-24
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Week 51, the final working week this year for me, has finished. Level 2024
has been more or less completed. It was another very busy week, not in the
least...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Fragmentation in academic leadership
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[image: On the top half, green flowing river water, and on the bottom,
fractured rock.]Academic leadership is essential, impossible. Credit: Bernd
Dittrich...
Mars in Opposition
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There are always opponents to the concept of colonising Mars. Recently some
of them seem to have coalesced around a few talking points. Let's address
them.
Bye-bye 2024, I won’t miss you.
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Well, it’s been one heck of a year. ::shaking head:: Although I love
getting those end-of-year postcards from folks, I’ve never managed to make
them. Inste...
Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing
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The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past This is a 9
minute read – the best I’ve come across regarding the Syrian uprising. I
have requ...
The Case Against Bottle Deposits
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*A common sight in Europe: poor person searching bare-handed through
garbage bins in search of deposit bottles*Many environmentalists support
the idea ...
The Irony of Calling the Opponents of Nazism Nazis
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Hudson & Wolff on the geo-political pressures emanating through South
Korea, Ukraine, Europe. Its through wide lense discussions like this that
we recogn...
Part 6 Guns Under The Table
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Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for
this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary
podcas...
Mime, misdirection and pyramid of code
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The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that
was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its
followers. Constitut...
End of Year Clearance Sale!
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Save Up to 50%! Shop & Save In order to make room for new inventory, we’re
having a huge End of Year Clearance Sale! Shop now to save up to 50% on
select...
The Google Willow thing
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Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business)
conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday
on “Quantum ...
Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid
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by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In October of 2025, the isolated
small city of Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load
(includ...
The world economy needs to simplify
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Economic growth and added complexity sound like they would be good, but at
some point, the combination gets to be too much--simplification is needed.
Too m...
API Enrichment in Event Processing
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Creating an Apache Flink job using IBM Event Processing that identifies
customer retention opportunities This is a demo of IBM Event Processing
that I gave...
An Assay of Core vs Functional Intelligence Types
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Not everyone excels in the same set of skills, and it is a mistake to
dismiss those whose abilities differ from our own as unfit for positions of
significa...
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
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(From Sergey Yekhanin; committee chair) Please nominate people to the
Kanellakis award – deadline is December 15.
https://awards.acm.org/kanellakis/nominat...
Tips For Building and Deploying Robots
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This post is not about research or developing software for robots. Instead
it is some tips on how to go about building robots for mass deployment and
how t...
Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation)
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Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo
idÄ—jos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idÄ—ja – mokytis darant. Visada
išmokstama ger...
On taking first steps into a new orientation
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This is a follow-up to my post On improving a computing model. My posting
to this blog has slowed down a lot over the last few years. One reason for
that i...
Experts vs. Imitators
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If you want the highest quality information, you have to speak to the best
people. The problem is many people claim to be experts, who really aren’t.
Saf...
Diary
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For the full record. Arthur Dent deliberately set out to wreck this site
early in 2016 and considering it was on life support at the time this was
easily a...
Marble Maze Modules
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Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building
a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring
a w...
Return to 4th grade Code Club
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One of my high school seniors wanted to do a service project teaching
coding to elementary students. He loved our field trip to the elementary
school that ...
Wellness: Bad Stress: Philosophy – Stoicism
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I started researching wellness a few
months into the pandemic when I noticed my physical and mental health
declining. ...
Podcast: David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
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Dialectical analyses of the capitalist totality through a Marxist lens.
David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced with Politics In
Motion, ...
Dreamtime (fragment)
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Erin Riley is producing an exhibit of my TurtleArt and ArtLogo programming
at Greenwich Academy in March of 2020 and is helping, along with Zoë
Hedstrom...
ScreenTime
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It is pretty easy to add a rectangular fly screen to a sash window. But
the problem with sash windows is that the maximum they can open is half,
and th...
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