I just backed Send Al to Vermont for the No Nukes Oral History Project on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/1U3In0X

Happy birthday to spiralsongkat!

1. Anyone interested in probability theory who does not read at least the early chapters of http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-The-Logic-Science/dp/0521592712 is not seriously interested, is some kind of ideologue (common concerning ( Read more... )

I need to write code documentation, write more explanatory commentary, and fill in the references, but this program, by golly, demonstrates once and for all that so-called ‘entanglement’ (a total misnomer) in Bell-type experiments is nought but ordinary statistics: program04.plThere isn’t even a physical effect at play! The correlations are just ( Read more... )

Returning to an ancient topic here on LJ, Wikipedia says Mt Rainier could destroy parts of downtown Seattle with mudflows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_RainierRead more... )

I am upset about http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-perkins-wsj-letter-2014-1, because so much focus has been on the ludicrous self-pity of this scoundrel, when IMO far worse is that the Wall Street Journal condoned (by publishing it) the analogy of Jews persecuted by Nazis to an ultrawealthy elite.

Um, that bogus analogy is why the Nazis wanted ( Read more... )

Python is an evil programming language. I have moved it below C++ in my esteem, and in fact it is well below C++. I was fooled early on and thought the language pleasant, but now the more I use Python the more I detest it ( Read more... )

There was some New Yorker I scolded here at LJ who had dumped on the New Orleaneans for living there in the first place. I pointed out, of course, that the same thing was going to happen to New York someday ( Read more... )

‘When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.’

I told you so. :)