Six Degrees of Separation

Since the last DOJ release of materials under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, many celebrities has been engaged in a newly popular parlor game that could only be called, “Six Degrees of Separation from Jeffrey Epstein.” Largely due to the number of irrelevant newspaper and magazine articles included in the January 30 dump, individuals who … Read more

The Week in Review (January 11-17)

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Newest Math

Hooray for new mathNew-hoo-hoo math!It won’t do you a bit of good to review mathIt’s so simpleSo very simpleThat only a child can do it! Tom Lehrer/”New Math” (1965) If, like me, you were a fifth or sixth grader in the early 1960s, perhaps your math book was a typed, xeroxed manuscript of a proposed … Read more

Brave New Whirl

What if we cannot sing? What if we cannot draw a straight line or a perfect circle? It does not stop us from imagining a new musical composition or a totally new building design.  We can always hire a talented singer to perform our songs or a skilled draftsman to render our architectural concept. We may … Read more

Who Ya Gonna Call?

A hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes completely alien to humans, uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Technological Singularity/Wikipedia The question is no longer, “Will we reach technological singularity?” Instead, the only missing variable is “WHEN will we reach it?” The answer, based on the attention to and rapid deployment of … Read more