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Pi, pie, and the making of a mathematical star The Daily Edition. Since this is 3.14…

I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format

Simon Reynolds

-!The world of Chinese scammers

THIS OUR FIGHT IS A GLOBAL FIGHT. IT’S THE FIGHT FOR HUMAN LIBERTY. AND CIVILIZATION:  Polish Farmer: “Everything was peaceful and suddenly the police came out of nowhere, there were loud bangs, the police started using gas and simply provoking people…”

Some things don’t change much……

From Yes Minister: Superbly written and acted, as usual. Yes Minister is a Documentary not a Comedy Show.

All fiscal rules are made up by Chancellors (or their equivalents) to suit their own purposes.

But here in the UK they don't, on average last the life of a parliament.

So, any chancellor might say, here is my fiscal rule, but I have others available if needed.

I believe this is economics from the school of Groucho Marx.

We might also find GM refusing to join any which would let him participate.

Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend.

A Stimulating Brief History of Coffee

Ted Ed lesson by Jonathan Morris explains the discovery of coffee by herded goats in 850 CE and offers a brief history of the beverage.

Profile of Dwarkesh Patel.

A Milton Friedman AI?

 Atlantic – The Lifeblood of the AI Boom – [unpaywalled]  “Applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination—but AI companies are focused on something else. Artificial intelligence can appear to be many different things—a whole host of programs with seemingly little common ground. Sometimes AI is a conversation partner, an illustrator, a math tutor, a facial-recognition tool. But in every incarnation, it is always, always a machine, demanding almost unfathomable amounts of data and energy to function.

 AI systems such as ChatGPT operate out of buildings stuffed with silicon computer chips. To build bigger machines—as Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies would like to do—you need more resources. And our planet is running out of them…”