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Distances in China are enormous compared to those within Germany. Japan is in the convenient situation of being rather long and slim so that its railway network is almost 1D rather…

In general, it’s not a good idea. And in general, Newton’s method won’t converge. Newton’s method boils down to replacing your function by a first-order approximation. For a differ…

To elaborate a bit: Newton’s method is amazing. But it’s also dangerous and difficult to use. You can talk about it for a long time and use it as the centrepiece of an course on ve…

The author has far too little mathematical understanding to be teaching anybody (that’s my impression at least). If you don’t understand Newton’s method before reading this, you wo…

Adblockers have their limits, too. Some news providers take images embedded in the article and ads from the same server, making the two rather hard to distinguish. You either end u…

I think we're still very far from peak tracking if there is such a thing. Imagine I know all the books you've bought within the last 10 years, how scary is that? Certainly a bit sc…

I wouldn't say it's exactly what they do. First of all, you end up reading the news through Blendle, where you have to see all kinds of news you don't want to see (in particular gi…

Nothing is keeping them from doing it. They (and others, e.g. the Brave browser and Optimal) have been doing that for a while. Here are a few related links: https://www.theguardian…

The Wall Street Journal is a very, very good newspaper that brought us such amazing series as "What They Know", which I believe started the practice of referring to the use of trac…