Saturday, August 23, 2025

Francine Prose's Blue Angel

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 I like  Blue Angel .  Francine Prose is my unacknowledged muse. Born exactly a year after me, on April 1, 1947. Siri, my day younger twin,...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

State of Mac - Phillipsović Report

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The State of Mac is serious, irreversible and only downhill from here. First, the numbers, as of January 29, 2025: The platelets range from ...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

How I got my unpronouncable name?

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(see also ChaosBook.blogspot.com/2010/10/whuz-yr-name.html ) Zu meinem Nachnamen: Der Name meines Adoptivvaters Cvitanović (Cvit = Blume, ta...
Sunday, December 08, 2024

Children of professsors are not like us

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  S and I went to Hopfield's Nobel Lecture        (very good, but do not waste one minute on Jumper's lecture) and talked about you,...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

The History of Byzantium

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  I'm back to where I was in November 2016. Now (and then) I've deleted my account in the fascist cesspool of X, and my Washington ...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Alberto Martínez "Beyond 1905: Einstein's Light, Love, and Lies"

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( Alberto Martínez gave us a fascinating history of science lecture with above title) Liebe Albert(o) I think your combination of human...

"This is not physics!" or "Why did the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics go to two computer scientists"

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Wonderful prize! I totally agree with the choice and reasoning for the choice.   My "fundamental" physics colleagues (particle phy...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Benny Lautrup: Så megen venlighed 1953

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 Bennys erindringer:  "Min mor gled i en hundelort på Vesterbrogade i København, da min far tilfældigvis kom gående forbi. Han hjalp he...