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At last we’ve made it to the end of term. This morning I delivered my last particle physics lecture. Given that it is the last day of the semester I was half-expecting no students would turn up, but in the end I had about 60% attendance....
My main comment on David George Haskell’s How Flowers Made Our World is a plea for even pop-science writers (and, perhaps more to the point, publishers) to use numbered endnotes to […]
On Wednesday, April 8th, I gave a presentation called What if we used AI as an excuse to provide structured open data to our communities?
🎨 Impressions I came across Mike Monteiro about ten years ago, when a talk of his on design principles made the rounds. At the time, what he said was pure gold for me at my company. He ran a digital design shop in San Francisco and was...
One of the interesting things about walking the Camino de Santiago is discovering how many different names exist for the same pilgrimage route…
A Wednesday afternoon, and up to eight members attended. The Cha(i)rman has got his wheels back, and was sent on a wild goose chase hunting for fish and chips – two of our regulars were closed, one still renovating the … Continue reading →
In my post from a few day ago “Iran, oil, and stocks: taking a victory lap,” I didn’t mention Bitcoin. It would appear I was wrong about so far about Bitcoin diverging from stocks. Bitcoin has done well, at $79,000 as of writing this, an...
A recording from Glenn Greenwald's live Q&A last night
1. “A 1990 poll found that 76 percent of Americans regarded the deficit as ‘a very serious problem calling for immediate action.’….At the time, the debt was around $4 trillion. Now it’s over $31 trillion, bigger than our entire economy....
I anticipate more of this to come up in the coming years. Another example of labor’s value being less than capital.
I anticipate more of this to come up in the coming years. Another example of labor’s value being less than capital.