Diary (January 21, 2021)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday January 21, 2021.
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Violence against activists in Colombia
Last year, 87 activists were killed by illegal armed groups in the country despite the coronavirus pandemic and quarantines, and the recent murder of Gonzalo Cardona, a leading expert and guardian of the Yellow-eared Parrot, in a territory controlled by dissidents, highlights that Colombia’s ranking as the second-most biodiverse nation on the planet continues to be tarnished by extra-judicial murders of nature’s defenders.
- For Colombia, one hundred hippos is one too many (20 January 2021)
Doll houses all the way down
Maladaptionalized
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz is highly intelligent, that's how stupid I think he is. (Princeton University and Harvard Law School.)
He is on the wrong side of the Enlightenment. I say this as the New Voltaire.
But joking about his lack of intelligence misses the mark.
No Honor Among Parasites
Differential equation linearity
A first‐order differential equation is said to be linear if it can be expressed in the form y' + P(x)y = Q(x)
where P and Q are functions of x.
It's the machine learning, oxymoron
It's the machine learning, oxymoron
Topology is destiny
Fraa Jad stood up and, in the same motion, stripped his bolt off over his head. Some of the hierarchs gasped and turned their backs. Nothing happened for a little while. I rummaged in his shopping bag and found a pair of drawers, which I handed to him.
“Do I need to explain this? ” I asked, pointing out the fly.
Fraa Jad took the garment from me and discovered how the fly worked. “Topology is destiny, ” he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.
—Neal Stephenson, "Anathem" (2008)