Saturday, January 26, 2008
Six Degrees has problems
ScienceFriday.com’s version
Chances are you’ve heard of the ’small world’ idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct?
The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. [...]
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We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data. The ridiculous adjustments, the lack of correlation between CPI prices and reality… More
Saturday, October 13, 2007
this ties in with the earlier post on Peak Phosphorus
from Juergen Schmidhuber’s site
Since age 15 or so Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber’s main scientific ambition has been to build an optimal scientist, then retire. In 2028 they will force him to retire anyway. By then he shall be able to buy hardware providing [...]
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Moscow’s suburb for billionaires
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC News, Moscow
Most people in Britain are now familiar with the scruffy, boyish and invariably unshaven features of Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, and Russia’s most famous billionaire.
This week we learned that Mr Abramovich is one of a growing list of hyper-rich Russians.
According to Forbes magazine Russia now [...]
Monday, February 19, 2007
Suppose inflation was 11% last year, and 11% this year. Is that a total inflation of 22% for the two years?
Consider a sample of purchases costing $100. After the first year, 11% inflation means you will pay 11% more for the same items.
11% of $100 is $11. Therefore, you will pay $111 by the end [...]
Saturday, January 27, 2007
In the September 4, 2006 issue of Space News, Thomas Christie, the former chief weapons tester at the Pentagon, was quoted as saying the Ground Based Mid-course Defense System “likely would have less than a 20% chance of shooting down an incoming missile from North Korea”. When asked his take on the system’s effectiveness, the [...]
I have been a math teacher since 1991 when I taught my first algebra class at Philadelphia Community College. I had just received my Bachelors degree in Physics. Bolstered by my girlfriend Val’s seemingly cushy part-time employment as a math instructor, and the fact that the math department was in quick need of an algebra [...]
