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I have it on good authority and a lot of data that over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for recently having (i) breathed air containing oxygen, (ii) drank …

As I read the post by MrAlex94, I noticed a remark that the browser Chrome is good as a user agent. To me, that's terrific! Looks like I'll have to consider Chrome again.` Here are…

> Not enough time for evolution to respond And we have to guess that evolution didn't "respond". Sooooo, we have some lack of fit , evolved over 10s of thousands of years for life …

In a Markov stochastic process, the past and the future are conditionally independent given the present.

Glanced at the exercises. It appears that two of them have numbers arranged in a triangle and ask for a longest path. Hmm. Given such a triangle, let m be the largest number in the…

A one word explanation from the T.J. Watson Research lab in Yorktown Heights: "Luster".

One reason for appearing smart is to be terrified of something and work every waking moment to defend against the "something". So such a person can be desperately unhappy, and at s…

As I was being interviewed by an IBM branch manager in Chicago (my wife had started grad school at the University of Chicago), it was explained to me: "Some people think that IBM i…

Such a cube , i.e., a set, is closed , right? Sooo, there exists a function on the space that is 0 on the cube, strictly positive otherwise, and infinitely differentiable.

For garbage collection and the idea of assigning storage requests to different categories of (dynamic) storage .... Apparently part of the algorithm is based on the size of the sto…

> ridiculously tiny and fragile my little life Naw!!! We are rare, so rare that we might be unique in our solar system, galaxy! We don't look little and instead the reason for the …

> Good research is just a vehicle for producing knowledge and talent. Yup, it was surprise seeing that once have a good STEM field Ph.D., written a lot of STEM and (early) AI softw…

It can appear that some famous companies pursue pure research as a source of public luster .

> random delay A Poison process. Just specify the expected value. E.g., if the expected value is 5 seconds and have gone some hours without an event, then the expected time is stil…

Likely are also making a probabilistic independence assumption.

> I don't understand how you could have trouble finding the volume down button. Read again: It was Apple Online Help that didn't know where the Volume Down button was. I wasn't ask…

Got an iPhone 16 Plus: Apparently somehow needed to have an "Apple account." Don't want one -- don't want to be subservient, subordinate to, dependent on Apple or hurt my privacy -…

Bell Labs was part of AT&T which had in effect a government approved monopoly -- nearly all of the US telephone system, so was awash in earnings for transistors, lasers, informatio…

A guess: Smart VCs know that they are not smart enough to evaluate a business from a plan or a founder' background and instead wait for the revenue growing explosively.

Some good Bach: Rostropovich Prelude from Bach Cello Suite No.1 BWV 1007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml14kGHCBg0 Also Maurice Gendron as at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDPd…

Some Rostropovich, second movement of the Dvorak Cello Concerto, as at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyAMvctMEbI

That's not "everything"! Just wasted ~3 hours trying to set up an account, supervised by me, for my 8 year old daughter. (1) There are some old rules for a user interface. (2) Bill…

Basic rule in technical writing: For obscure terminology, always define and explain that (e.g., maybe with a reference) before using it.