I’m thinking the failure of Silicon Valley Bank has a lot to do with the dream of the driverless car not materializing, with lots of loans to startups premised on that dream coming true sometime in the near future. But “the near future” has already come and gone, from a…

Let’s help the journalists remember SARS1 (just called SARS) and other virus outbreaks we still strongly doubt came directly from a lab. Some people think HIV was lab brewed. …

Why should a beginner first master Java and PHP before rushing to Python? I have no idea why this specific sequence. Python was never designed as a “teaching language” but is sufficiently compact and understandable to serve as such. …

[from the math4wisdom listserv, some typos corrected] Andrius: Kirby, Thank you for your letter! Kirby: And thank you as well. There’s a quasi-polarized debate that simmers on the back burner, sometimes front burner, featuring “globalism versus nationalism”. In conjuring images of EPCOT (Disney theme park in Orlando) I was suggesting…

[ original on the Math4Wisdom (M4W) listserv ] Greetings Andrius et al — My next teaching gig starts mid March, so I’m still keeping up on my readings and many of the viewings. …

One aspect of democracy is we the people are given a lot of leeway in terms of what we’re allowed to say publicly. We even get to contradict “officials” as the theory says they (the officials) ultimately work for us. That’s democracy on paper of course. …

I launched a career in cyberspace publishing soon after hypertext became a thing. I’d been hoping for just such a technology. Thanks to my account with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), I was able to participate in an online newsgroup-like format even before using Usenet, as our network…

Those of you who’ve seen my slide deck, perhaps with an eye to performing it yourself, per my suggestion-invitation, may recall that slide wherein I go: 4D: Coxeter (polytopes, extended Euclideanism, perpendiculars) 4D: Einstein (3D space + imaginary time) 4D: RBF (a container as a concept primitively “4-eyed”) I’m paraphrasing…

We lost some of our deepest thinkers in 2022. By “our” I mean a nebulous cabal of polymaths behind such consciousness raising campaigns as: the Hexagonal Awareness Project my own HP4E (Hexapents for Everyone) Glenn Stockton’s Global Matrix, and CJ Fearnley’s Collaborating for Comprehensivity We lost Glenn in October and…