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
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
The Washington Post is reporting there was a little publicized side-bet between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and King Donald. Usually such wagers involve a culinary delight symbolic of the cities represented in major sporting events. For example, following the Eagles victory in Super Bowl LIX, Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas sent Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker a … Read more
Americans stocking up on holiday cooking essentials may be greeted with an unwelcome surprise in the grocery aisles: higher prices for eggs, spurred by an intensifying bird flu outbreak. ~Danielle Kaye/New York Times Kaye’s update on the “great American egg crisis” this morning should come as no surprise. A February 2024 USDA report on the … Read more
In a Thursday post on his Truth Social platform, former President Donald Trump argued that Vice President Kamala Harris “should be investigated and forced off the Campaign,” thereby allowing President Joe Biden “to take back his rightful place” at the top of the Democratic ticket. Trump did not specify what he believes Harris — who … Read more