adharmad

And more recently Chamath Palihapitiya.

Granted Nepo self-destructed starting Game 8, so any psychological sub-currents paled in comparision with the on-the-board blunders. But I wouldn't go as far to call Classical chess "lame".

Gelfand's books are good too.

Historical email archives from the NetBSD mailing list which show some of the early conversations around why Theo founded OpenBSD: https://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.html

To a top flight grandmaster, even a signal indicating "think now" is sufficient. No actual variations or moves need to be communicated.

Vishy Anand had mentioned in an interview that he would be virtually unbeatable if he received a simple signal from an observer indicating that the current position is a critical position in the game.

Alpher was the most junior of the three and Bethe was a big gun even at that time.

Bethe went along with the joke when Gamow added his name to the paper. But the actual loser in the deal was Alpher because most scientists, upon reading the author's names simply assumed that Bethe and Gamow had come up with the main ideas.

So this can be a good opportunity for practical test. Let the workers and writers organize and create their own magazine. Use their own funds (or borrow from like minded investors) to execute their own vision.

"Go away and tell everyone that Big Pharma muzzled you, if that makes you feel better. But in the end, you’re already going to be the last people standing after the vaccines wipe the rest of us out, right? Isn’t that enough?"

:-)

www.smugmug.com

George Sudarshan

Fred Hoyle

The secondary question though is: Why does the energy always dissipate by 50% in both the electric and hydrodynamic models?

Is there some underlying physical explanation of this? Something that says that "in a dynamical system the maximum efficiency can be at most 50%".

Right now is a truly bad time for anything drastic that will affect your reveune stream. But what about pre-covid times?

Can they not be more efficient and still bill the same hours? What is stopping them from improving their internal efficiency but still pocketing the same amount of money?

Partly, the emphasis on extreme short term gains, in turn accentuated by short term trading (options) and HFTs disincentivizes any management actions that try to optimize for the long term.

The CEO will be under tremendous pressure if he/she tries to optimize for a 1 year timeframe (for example) as opposed to quarter-by-quarter. I wish boards can come up with a compensation structure for execs which optimizes for long term.

How would using a GPL3 license be helpful? Oracle is not embedding or even dynamically linking to Amazon S3 APIs. They have created their own implementation but copied the signatures to be compatible with Amazon S3 APIs. This is similar to Linus creating a free operating system while adhering to the POSIX standard.

Prof Alan Guth's office: http://archive.boston.com/realestate/galleries/springsweep/b...

vim

If one is cushioned by unlimited amount of VC money, then it can take a while to realize that the vision was untenable.

WeWork is a cargo-cult startup

Apart from being a snarky article, the author does not propose any actual solutions. So what if a few folks try to hack sleep? Whatever floats their respective boats....

It might be related to Maslow's hierarchy.

Imperial college, LSE, Groningen, Moscow Univ, Utrech

Going public, they can get better at respecting local laws and regulations, and still sacrifice their customers (and of course employees) at the altar of their shareholders. (At least that is what I read the Op is saying).

Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century - Istvan Hargittai

And a recursive acronym to boot!

Yes there are no laws but I always wonder about this.

If people are serious about testing this premise, why not be upfront with the investors and actually tell them that "maximizing profit is not one of our (primary) goals"?

And Oracle.

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

World chess (https://worldchess.com) has live streaming with Judith Polgar commenting.

Chess24 also has the same with Peter Svidler, Guramishvili, Anish Giri and Grischuk commenting.

Spies too.