Recent content by Hornbein

10x per year.

After thirteen years five quadrillion housecats would cover the surface of the Earth. Further reproduction would be inhibited as the weight of the upper cats presses down on those below and by drowning in the waters of the oceans. If somehow this reduction is avoided then after nine more years...

If they were then after seven years you would have at most 100 housecats.

I once heard Michio Kaku hold forth on quantum computing on television. He spoke with confidence but it was totally wrong. He didn't know the most basic things.

Start with one hundred housecats. Given unlimited resources, in seven years you will have a billion housecats.

Leading mathematician is pro-AI for research. It's "excellent" for certain things such as literature search. He's used it to help with proofs. "If you have a thousand medium difficulty problems then AI is great."

There's the Godel Universe, which rotates but has no rotational axis. It's consistent with general relativity but astronomy has shown that this doesn't correspond to our universe.

I taught statistics. Most of it was calculating statistics by hand, which I thought useless. They should have been teaching what statistics to use, what they mean, and how to avoid common misunderstandings.

I have found that customers are usually poor at articulating what they need and want, and engineers often get this wrong.

Encore!

Mr. Fagan surely knows a great deal about chords. I remember this era and how it felt. Wikipedia says the lyrics are satirical. How wrong can you get?

Some migrated, others didn't. When the Hopi Indians came to North America they migrated all over the place, leaving mounds in places like Ohio. While in central Papua no one dared leave tribal territory, so much so that they forgot that the ocean existed. It also depends on how productive...

Earlier today I was thinking prediction markets had to be more honest than online poker sites, where one is just begging to be cheated.

There was the guy who stole a tank.

That's right. I incorrectly thought the stated problem is whether there are two Bill Perkinses but it's actually whether any two homeowners have the same name. That's about 2%, assuming that there are about 50000 possible names.