HeyJaredStories, Threads, and Magic & Thoughts
Stories -- incidents of note in my life; Threads -- how one thing lead to the next; Magic -- those times "too coincidental to be coincidence"; Thoughts -- comments.
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Fixing the System (opens the original)
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It’s always seemed to me that the root of all of our current problems is the simple fact that Congress isn’t working the way it should, and that people try to express their displeasure by, no matter which party is in charge at the moment, electing a different President from the other party. And note, that when that other party president gets in, at the mid-terms people usually vote for the previous party again. The people aren’t happy.A lot of the problem with Congress is that it’s become a cage
AI and the Navier-Stokes equations (opens the original)
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Hmmm, I seem to be on a roll writing these days…Mathematicians are upset with AI solving the very tedious and difficult Navier-Stokes equations problem. It’s something to do with 3-D fluid dynamics and you know that has to be a real rat’s nest. They’ve been working on it for over 100 years.AI found a solution. It took maybe 88 hours of computing time. Wow, in two senses. One that it did in 88 hours what mathematicians had spend a century on, and the other in that, seeing how fast AI is at variou
Collateral (opens the original)
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“I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humour, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment.” — Virginia Woolf.Collateral is a four-part TV drama written by the master playwright, Sir David Hare and directed by S.J. Clarkson. As we get to know the characters and how they interrelate it all hangs together, both at the surface level of the drama and at the level of the caves behind each.
Are Juries a Good Idea? (opens the original)
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I apologize for maybe a bit more than normal political posts, which I now mix with my stories and other types of posts. I’ll try to use the subtitle part of my post to alert you as to whether I’m heading in a political, specific to this coming election, direction; or a more general political science (as this one is) one; or something just more fun.I’ll also be re-posting some articles, like this one, that I wrote a year or more ago.Let’s think about our trial system, and how it might apply to ou
Rant about Rants (opens the original)
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In my feed on the Left side of things I often see clips from Congress with someone making a speech showing how ridiculous the Republicans are. AOC is often articulate in these sorts of clips.A friend on the Right sent me a clip with the title indicating how someone really took down AOC. Its starts with her making one of her speeches, attacking the Republicans, and then the Republican responds and attacks her.He asked my reaction. My reaction? a rant.I want to say to both of them, shut up. Go int
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