12 November 2025

Why can't Wikipedia explain math. Really. It's not just me.

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I agree with this: the decline of AI will not be a crash. It will be a burn, like the dotcom era. There's so much scrum, right now. Time for the fluff to burn off, and leave the strong entities standing. Yeah, it'll be painful, but ultimately, healthy.

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Venting doesn't reduce anger. I never thought it did. Only calming maneuvers do.

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Datacenters are hoarding up SSD drives. I still see them on the shelves at Apple stores, though. Probably talking about a different thing, no doubt.

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Here's something scary. People can be identified based on the way WiFi signals reflect off them. When you think about it, it's just a photon of another wavelength, so why not? But WiFi is ubiquitous and invisible. You'd never know. Bet Palantir is working on this. 

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How's this for hypocrisy? 
In northern Brazil, near the city of Belém, a strip of rainforest about eight miles long was cleared to build a four-lane highway in advance of the COP30 climate summit that began on Monday. The highway, dubbed Avenida Liberdade, is intended to handle the surge of delegates and dignitaries expected for the gathering.
...Critics are pointing out the blatant irony of cutting down a protected rainforest for a climate conference that is itself aimed, among other things, at halting deforestation.
“They ripped the hell out of the Rainforest of Brazil to build a four-lane highway for Environmentalists to travel.
Gavin Newsom will be there.
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Scientists at Stanford feel that lupus may be caused by the Epstein-Barr virus. Great. It's about time we found out.

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There's a FOSS alternative to Mathematica, called SageMath. It's not as polished as Mathematica. MatLab from MathWorks is another alternative.

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I missed this from last October, but GLP-1 agonists really lower colon cancer mortality. Lowering 5 year mortality from 37.1% to 15.5% is not shabby. Is something being done to build on these results?

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Look at these mysterious holes in the Andes Mountains. What were they? I don't buy the marketplace theory. These are too regular and too long to be the site of a marketplace. It's got to be something else.

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Portland is proof that socialism is destroying American cities.  Seattle, too. New York City will find out very soon.

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Don't askHow attractive is Portland to real estate investors?
Are you paying attention, NYC?
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