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Maybe a law reducing the length of copyright on academic papers to a few years.

A product has its components fabricated in east Asia, is assembled in east Asia, sold in Europe, and the profits from the sale are held in Europe. Somehow you consider this “illegally offshoring money”. Somehow you think the US government deserves 34% of these profits. Apparently, the spirit of the law being violated is that the US government has the right to stick it’s nose in anyplace in the world it wants and extract rent.

At a physics conference Wolfgang Pauli heard a talk that was so misguided that his comment was that “it wasn’t even wrong.” IMO your comment isn’t even wrong.

Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.

Perhaps you meant “convergent function ratios.” The first example equations are parabolas (divergent).

From the first sentence of the paper: “I explore functions f that can be written as a sum f=g1+g2 where g1 and g2 are shifted and possibly reflected versions of each other, both strongly resembling the original function f.”

Note, not f but “both strongly resembling the original function f.”

My friend stopped graduate school at a MS and didn’t pursue a PhD because all the American grad students were forced to take teaching assistantships while the foreign grad students were given research assistantships.

The Apple STOCKS app on my iPhone is showing updates as I watch and says Yahoo! at the bottom. So, it seems Yahoo is still providing fairly real-time stock quotes via some means.

xkcd of land mammal biomass

https://xkcd.com/1338/

I wonder if that protruding sensor block can be used for touch ID somehow?

Arizona doesn't participate in daylight savings time. And, we really don't need to be saving any daylight in Arizona.

Sadly, this is the way many federal laws come to be. Agencies and Bureaus in the executive branch propose rules(laws) and if congress doesn't specifically vote them down, they become federal statutes.

I'm glad to see congress actually exercising it's oversight instead of letting the executive branch run so much of everything.

But, I wish it hadn't exercised it's oversight on this specific matter.

My paraphrase of page two with a direct quote: He possibly did stuff important to us and "other nations controlled by insane dictators." We should consider watching him and protecting him.

If you liked this essay, you might also like the book by Marcel Berger, Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Higher Geometry.

A quote from the cover: "The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built "above" the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs"

And yet, it doesn't taste like chicken. :)

In the video it looks like she was still able to use the phone, the angle is such that you can't see the crack while she is scrolling. Are there any other videos where she uses the phone and you can see the crack? Or, do her comments, which I don't understand, shed any light on usability after the crack?

What does a federal judge have to do to be removed?

My Dad told me that the house he grew up in was ordered from Sears. They had to build a foundation to set it on, but everything else was shipped to them from Sears and they assembled it. That was about 90 years ago.

I wonder if Amazon will start selling prefabricated houses?

Go to Amazon and pick out the features you want in your converted shipping container. Pour a slab to set it on. Free 2nd-day delivery with Prime.

New symmetries for elliptic curves. It seems like these pariah groups could be used to speed up cracking elliptic curve cryptography. Does anyone have an informed opinion?

Does anyone know if these pariah groups could make elliptic curve cryptography easier to crack?

In "Exploring Black Holes" by Taylor & Wheeler, project A is titled 'Global Positioning System', where they say locating your position accurately depends crucially on General Relativity.

This seems like an overweight person suing Coca-Cola and Krispy Kreme when they get diabetes.

One of the problems with making the theory compatible with General Relativity is that a hotter object weighs more than the same cooler object.

This generation was raised eating and drinking from plastic and has a higher level of BPA in their blood than any previous generation. But, maybe that is just a non-causal correlation.

Why is Physics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?

I visited my brother in Sydney and he took me to a restaurant where they served chunks of raw kangaroo meat with a super-heated rock to cook it on. I thought the meat was pretty good.

They only report scores up to 800, so adding 50 to my 920 isn't really doing anything for me.

I know good ol' boys who stick to beer, whiskey, and a little weed who regularly cull the duck, quail, deer, and wild pig populations to keep them from overbreeding. Mostly, they leave the coyotes alone because they keep the rabbits and prairie dogs in check.

The Geometric Algebra version of Kramer's rule is one of coolest most insightful things I've seen. Good examples can be found in the opening chapters of "Geometric Algebra for Computer Science" by Dorst, Fontijne, & Mann.

IIRC when Intel was in the business of building educational add ons to desktops, they produced some microscopes something like these.

Administrative bloat isn't just a problem at the University level, but across all levels of education in the US.