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Apple’s annual developer conference is once again about to happen. It always kicks off with a keynote presentation that aims to reveal exciting new software developments for Apple’s platforms. Anticipation in the tech sector this year...
Several posts lately have looked at the function f(x) = cos(sin(x) + x). This post will look at the function from a different angle. It’s a smooth function with period 2π, and it’s very flat at odd multiples of π, i.e. the first five...
Two new movies deal with women struggling on their own -- albeit with very different issues. The Saudi movie Unidentified offers insights into life in Saudi Arabia, focusing a character played by Mila Al Zahrani. Zahrani's Lena lost a...
Feel like there’s little to nothing to report. The days have been somewhat dull, with lots of work. But the past few weekends have been nice, with lots of...
Quoth Timothy Snyder in his newsletter, Thinking about…: The United States has just spent billions of dollars to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. As...
Math can sometimes get in the way of a good story, but author James L. Cambias didn’t let pesky physics stop him from majorly transforming Venus. Blast off in his Big Idea to see how he managed to make Venus habitable, albeit not for...
Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye is one of those science fiction books you should read without knowing anything about the story. I listened to the Audible.com edition, and Richard Dawkins blathered too much about the story in his...
Another TCM film festival is in the books, and it was just as fabulous this year as it was the first time I attended back in 2013 – four wonderful days filled with films, friends, and fantastic special guests! As you may know, for the...
Silencio.
Day 3 decluttering!! Just listing things here to keep myself accountable.