Don't get frightened by not knowing things. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about. It doesn't frighten me.

"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." - John von Neumann

"We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." - Charles Bukowski #wisdom

Don't ask questions which can be Googled.

The best evidence I can muster that Humans are smarter than Cats is that we don’t chase Laser dots on the carpet.

Scott on quantum supremacy The New York Times: "We don’t yet have the quantum computing version of the transistor — that would be quantum error correction. [But] after a quarter century of effort, we are now ... in the early vacuum tube era of quantum computing." nytimes.com/2019/10/30/opi…

diginomica.com/ai-curve-fitti…

The best work resists compression. The best explanations are short, but potent. The best software delivers the same outcome in fewer clicks. The best manufacturing processes create products in less time and with less waste. The shape of genius is simplicity.

When "Einstein 2.0" Met "Freud's Successor:" A meeting of minds between brilliant quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and renowned psychologist Carl G. Jung: synchronicity-book.com/2020/01/04/whe… #histSTM #histsci #CGJung #CarlJung #Synchronicity

Very cool (and scary) video from Ansys Government Initiatives (AGI) which shows how crowded low Earth orbit will become over the next 10 years if all proposed #satellites launch. And btw this is in addition to the other 20,000 other #space objects which are already being tracked. Space needs rules!