“The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.” — Edward Teller
Fiction
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In the Bible there are many references to the Jordan river. Joshua 03:17 “The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing […]
State Number of days to double cases england 9.170667077048846 northern_ireland 9.440172590839559 scotland 11.09717971461147 uk 8.984112697842296 wales 5.958681781105541 All warranties explicit or implied as to the accuracy of this data are nil. Explanation of term doubling number. The number of days for the number of cases to double. So for example, […]
In November 1954, in Amazing Stories, Frank Herbert wrote a short story “The Gone Dogs” about a global pandemic that wiped out man’s best friend, all canines. As Science Fiction aficionados know well, Frank wrote the classic book “Dune”. It’s not the best short story that I have read, but […]
When thinking about the new reality of the COVID19 virus, a lot of things roll through my brain. I think about the quote that Jeff Goldblum says in Jurassic park about the dinosaurs — “Life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, crashes through barriers, […]
In my post on February 10 I predicted that there would be a million cases of coronavirus by March 1. Today, March 6, I am looking at the number of cases outside China reported as 2400 on February 24 and 1200 on February 20. One can use these values to […]
In my post on February 10 I predicted that there would be a million cases of coronavirus by March 1. It was a simplistic back-of-the-envelope calculation. On the same day, Donald Trump made the prediction, “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot […]
As anyone who has played backgammon, players can double the value of the game through the use of the doubling cube, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. Doubling can be used in many contexts. It can be an important tool in understanding exponential processes. The use of the exponential […]
My wife bought a flimsy wine opener and it has proved useful in opening corked wine bottles. You may wonder why wineries still use corks and indeed cheaper wines come with spigots or twist off caps. My opinion is that it is a old fashioned warning to oeniphiliacs, or maybe […]
I filled the rust-out in the driver side rear wheel well with GreatStuff expanding foam. This stuff expands incredibly and is very sticky! I wore disposable nitrile gloves — this is important advice. Here is the finished product after I put Bondo over the expanding foam. I used a series […]
I was watching the Democratic debates tonight, and heard Tulsi Gabbard talking about the word “Aloha”. She says that it is so much more than marking comings and goings of meetings of strangers and friends — it is the recognition that we all share a connectedness, whether it is our […]