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agiri··on Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test
Only in America
agiri··on J. Robert Oppenheimer's Work in Quantum Physics and Cosmology
from "The Eccentric and Ingenious Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer"
agiri··on Turing “Uncomputability” – Numbers we can never know the value of
"While we know that the set of real numbers is uncountable, the set of computable numbers is countable, and thus we know that most real numbers are not computable."

Hard to fathom

agiri··on Norweigan oil fund
Norway was a poor country prior to the discovery of oil, mostly farmers and fishermen
agiri··on Ask HN: What currently makes you optimistic?
Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now
agiri··on The Math Problems from Good Will Hunting, with Solutions
From Wikipedia: "Consider a system of n linear equations for n unknowns, represented in matrix multiplication form as Ax = b where the n × n matrix A has a nonzero determinant, and the vector x = {x_1, x_2, ..., x_n}^T is the column vector of the variables. Then Cramer's rule states that in this case the system has a unique solution, whose individual values for the unknowns are given by: x_i = det(A_i)/det(A)"
agiri··on Detailed analysis of a star’s orbit near supermassive black hole
Not questioned, the best approximation we have for now. As for all theories attempting to describe empirical truth.
agiri··on McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales
"How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time"
agiri··on The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős
That's great!
agiri··on The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős
Ingognito!
agiri··on Timeline of Einstein and Hilbert’s Race to Generalize Relativity
thanks