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Yes. That’s the one. This is the same book I recommend in a thread of Riemann theorem. Same book that one mathematician passes away and the maid burns all his papers. As for Einstein, Walter Isaacson writes about the science fiction book that influenced the General Theory of Relativity. I think Steven Levy wrote about Einstein’s brain. And another book that talked about network intelligence and how it applied to large data sets like telescopes pictures. It takes sharing the data (all data) among many minds. Like bioinformatics and protein folding. Unfortunately AI is threatening to take this over, but that is another topic.

Well I was just trying to stress the importance of notes. When I was in high school we turned them in to prove our work and prevent plagiarism. But that wasn’t my point. I was just showing that if the research paper was written as a journal (like a Wikipedia page the writer of the paper could include all data sets and math derivations. You could still have a main paper but link to the parts of the notebook, but the reader could browse the notebook and pull up the research the reader was interested in. This isn’t my idea. Research papers still have their place. But I think this is how the Internet was supposed to work. It has historical purposes too. What if you wondered how Einstein thought of the observer outside the train and you wondered how Einstein originated the idea. You look at the scanned notes and Einstein writes, “Today I was reading a good science fiction book. It had a guy riding a beam of light.” In college we learn to create a journal and keep pictures, drawings. math problem, experiments, and data. I’m not saying not to write a research papers. Instead I am saying to include the entire project’s work. And write the paper for a larger audience. With the storage of today’s computers this is not an issue. And historically we’d know what made these good discoveries. There once was a mathematician who passed away and his maid thought his desk was too cluttered and burned all his math papers and notes. Einstein just passed away, let’s erase his chalkboard. And maybe steal his brain. I understand the tradition research paper is important to share developments and promote science. I just think we should augment it with as much information we can.

I was joking. There is a math paper where the mathematician proved a problem then included another problem that he claimed to prove with ease but no one saw it and this proof is still unsolved. i will have to look up his name and conjecture. But if someone remembers his name post it here. It is very famous.

I agree with your reasoning but what if someone writes a math proof then writes in the margin how easy the complete proof is? Like high school papers when they make you include your notes to prove you did the work. Your notes may seem unnecessary but include them in a hyperlink so you can still refer to them. Imagine if you discovered something big in 100 years your original notes would be gold. To me it is like when comic books first started: they printed the comic book and trashed the original art. I understand published research is important. But it seems you have to be indoctrinated to the system in grad school. Any good suggestions on what would be a good article to read?

I find academic papers hard to read. I know they are structured for a reason, but why is a Wikipedia paper way easier to understand. What if we turned in our papers in Wikipedia format. Need to get background information click the picture to bring up a supporting article. IMHO the idea behind the paper is the most important part. Explaining it clearly is the second. I may be simple in preferring Wikipedia but are you saying that I am missing out on current research because I don’t understand journal entries? But what if you had an abstract and submitted an entire science notebook? With a program such as Mathematica you could link notes and ideas and maybe still have a research paper as a roadmap and the process of your research would be complete. You would be less concerned in what you did or did not include in the final paper and more concerned on the overall presentation of the cumulating of notes, brainstorms, equations, trail and errors, etc.

Yes, I am aware. But I did also mention Reed Richard’s as dem and Victor von Doom as rep. Both of whom are still alive. Doom is dictator of his own country. You could argue this disqualifies him as President. But because he got more votes elections work based on math and science. I know you would argue for President Richard’s. He is just as smart and seems to be more professional. If he is corrupted then he is hiding it. But I would argue that even though he believes in his policies they may not be what the U.S. needs. This is the same guy that stole a rocket ship to beat the Soviets into space. He lost the election because people didn’t believe his policies were possible. And some of his policies were in conflict with other countries. Doom was blunt. Build up the country that voted for him. Strong military less wars. Reed is equally brilliant but he couldn’t convince the voters that solving the World’s problems is worth not being able to afford a house. WOZ invents the circuits but Jobs is the vision. Jobs leads like a tyrant but he gets things done. WOZ is friendly and benevolent. Can he lead better than Jobs?

Well Steve Jobs has vision but his method to obtain his vision has many faults. WOZ would be a Vice President who also has vision but accomplished it a kinder way. But as I heard on the autobiography that WOZ wondered if Apple could have been operated in a different way. Do you have to be a tyrant to win? WOZ’s leadership has vision but is he tough enough to implement it in a big world? WOZ on the D ticket would implement a government funded iPad Pro for ever public school grade school student and a Mac book pro for high school. Jobs would counter doing the same but would own all data collected and produced on the children’s computer. Both plans would bring down the deficit because the money spent to supply the computers would be paid for by the rewards. Jobs is a hippie but when it comes to business he believes in his vision. He can be tough. Jobs would build the brand while WOZ would create a loyal community. Well I’d have to research WOZ more to see his policies. But come to think about it I’ve never seen him involved in politics. Jobs has a plan or parts of a plan to replace the computers the Dems gave you with something better. Add some of WOZ’s policies for yourself.

I was considering taking a bioinformatics class at a local university. It would be at the undergraduate level. I have all the statistics, 2 years calculus, and linear algebra, but I lack knowledge of genetics. The course summary has low level biology classes, but to fully understand what the math represents I know a class in genetics is essential. I have no background in biology: the labs. I have read in Make magazine of building a home-brew bio lab. These are miniature labs that use existing technology that is available relatively inexpensive. Do you think it is worthwhile to build a bio-lab? I want to expand my knowledge of amateur radio and electronics. Electronics is also rather ready available and cheap. But I think building an amateur bio-lab and electronics both is too time intensive and I’d learn both but never master either. I also found a computational mathematics course online. It is a computer science concentration. I figure that is what I do now for fun: crunching numbers. I want to transition or just quit trying to factor semiPrimes. I have read much cryptography, but I thought the computational mathematics would cover AI. But you need to look at my latest math post after reading my latest status update. There is a link in the Status Update to a secure link to the Mathematica Notebooks. There is nothing to download you can see them in any web browser. PNP the N of the equation, is the unsolved RSA-260 number, so it will be fun to check it for yourself.

I am not happy with billionaires controlling everything either. Who would you elect: Republican Steve Jobs or Democrat WOZ? Which one would have the better vision? Who could make the World a better place? I know this is off topic. And it might not be directly comparable to Trump and Harris. But it may show why the election went the way it did. It does relate in several ways. Especially if it would be Trump vs. Bernie Sanders. Or maybe even Biden. Some may say it’s Victor von Doom vs. Reed Richard’s.

IMHO, I think Musk is here to stay. Trump and Musk need each other. It is business over friendship. I listen to This Week in Tech and Elon’s Satellites and rocket 🚀 payloads are critical for defense. On TWIT they are critical of Elon. But all things considered, he gets things done. I think both Trump and Elon share the same billionaire personality traits and like personalities tend to fight. But this is business.

I mean that of both Trump and Harris. The Primary decides in 3 days. Nicky Halley was a UN ambassador and most qualified. I don’t care if you voted for Harris. I don’t care if you voted for Trump. I have tried to only discuss the issues without insults. It is politics no one is right. Of course everyone thinks they are right it’s their own thoughts. At the gym there is almost fist fights when someone brings up the President race. At church each person thinks the other candidate means the apocalypse. Friends of mine might not have voted because of the candidates. Remember I never said who I voted for or if I voted. I never said I was white or middle class. Those demographics only matter to the evening news. People or different races and different gender gave the thumbs up when ask if they were voting for Harris then voted for Trump. I will start to be less political on the message boards. I sill would like to discuss the bitcoin and U.S. currency though. I am more concerned with the simple yet interesting post. Read my last status update where I approximate the unknown SemiPrime factors. So far Bitcoin’s main use is crime. And hiding money transfers. If there was a way to defeat the digital signatures it would be transparent.

Well she wasn’t chosen Biden had medical problems. Problems that appear to be most of his term. But the things you don’t like in Trump are the same as Harris. I saw a video of Harris where she boasted she could ruin someone’s life with the swipe of a pen. In this video she says that she wouldn’t even have to go to trail, she’d bankrupt them. Same stuff, different person, presented better on evening news.

Well I don’t approve everything Trump does but everyone voted for him. I don’t like the cabinet picks. They seem deliberate dismantling of those offices. But I believe we must hold both sides accountable. Like Biden giving long range misses to Ukraine. I understand why a lot of people don’t like Trump particularly his personality and the dangers of changing a system that works pretty well. The elephant in the room is the majority of those who worked for him are now his enemies. Harris had major faults too. They tell you to vote it’s your right. But we don’t get to choose the people we are to vote for.

Same as a prediction the other way 😝 We didn’t know we needed a wall until Trump built it. Then we see hundreds of people going around the wall😜 Mexico was going to pay for it. At least we got Mexico to hold some of the open border flow. There you go: 2 promises kept.

The Art of the Deal Trump says he is all about making deals. He withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal because he thought it wasn’t working. I don’t know the link but he also had a deal in the Middle East making peace deals and leveraging those peaceful countries against Iran. So Trump is smarter than the CBS news portrays him. I don’t think he’d make a trade deal that would earn less money than the current trading deals. Even to boast manufacturing in America. We’d be stronger with unemployment but overall collapsing a larger market.

y = (((pnp^2/ x ) + x^2) / pnp) pnp = x * y (((((pnp^2 / x) + x^2)) / x) / pnp) where y = 0 If all of these are true in the factors we wish to find, x and y, is there a limit; a range; that could be computed that said if x is this big then y is that big? It wouldn’t be a differential equation that solves a spring. But how do I find and x that is true by testing if y is also true in these 4 constraints? It is a simple idea, but what is the math that completes it? I know that where y on the graph equals zero x has the value approximate to the smaller factor. I have an equation that will tell me y factor knowing x. If you move x larger y gets smaller. Move x smaller y gets larger. There is only a certain range that will prove this true. Combine that with all the other constraints you have and equation that solves a polynomial.

Are there any good things? Like Elon Musk and Trump getting us to Mars before it revolves too far away. We will have to see the tariff thing play out. Trump is not going to cripple the economy with a trade war. He is smart even if popular media makes him out to be an idiot. I read it to mean he just wants a better trade deal. Elon Musk is smart too. Although the news clips I see of him he is always acting as an idiot. Did he make the right choice and buy Twitter and back Trump? Absolutely. I think he is all-in with space exploration.

Sometimes I wonder if China is a real place. We lose manufacturing jobs: China did it. Covid started where else China. I don’t think we’d have so many products from China if American businesses weren’t profiting. My question is how do we get a realistic view of China? I don’t know about you but I wonder how all these companies actually operate.

I think the question is who literally pays the tariff, i.e. how is it collected by the US. The consumer will pay more to the retailer, and the retailer pays more to the importer, who pays the tariff to customs. “When the U.S. imposes tariffs on imports, U.S. businesses directly pay import taxes to the U.S. government on their purchases from abroad” I see you logic: add a tariff raise the price. But is only valid if your goal is the lowest price. Couldn’t you also say if the price is raised then the China washer now costs as much as the U.S. washer and the labor is more balanced to support the U.S. manufacture? The tariffs will lose money at first but in the long term help the workers. J.D. Vance said in the debate that we listened to the experts and they shipped manufacturing overseas. This didn’t work. It didn’t even help the people of the countries the manufacturing went to. They had slave labor. Experts aren’t always right. Bruce Schneier would describe it as businesses hacking the laws for personal profit. Also if you put tariffs on only China there products will cost more than say a Korean LG washer. So if they pass the tariffs off to the consumer the price of the Chinese washer will be less competitive. But again the danger is not price. Instead it is “revenge” tariffs on U.S. goods sold in China. i don’t know how to balance these things because I’m not an economist. You may boast one business and hurt many others.

@StringJunky I will tell you what I told my friend: “Next week is crunch time. The election. Three States will choose between two candidates that one state chose to get a result nobody wants.”

I’m not saying put political ads on Amazon. People hate ads. But say Amazon recommends a product. It looks like a suggestion and not an ad. It is an ad. But the message of the ad was target to that specific shopper. Now we have ad blockers and ignore ads. But since the person targeting you the browser knows your browsing history they can influence you. The ad doesn’t have to be in the form of a pop-up. Like you mentioned in the form of YouTube or a news article. You could see if the browser searched Harris and show a group of news articles as Trump being a jerk. If a person was maga you could show Jan 6th or Trumps cabinet saying he’s dangerous. To me the Generals and advisors saying he shouldn’t be president will decide the election. Trump has many policies I agree with but the only reason he would lose if the anti Trump fuels voters. I really don’t know what Harris stands for but she is running on: “Not Trump.” But 5 states will determine the election anyway. I see the political ads and wonder how and who they are trying to influence. I think the political cartoons are interesting. Political cartoons are the most credible political ads. I did some graphic artwork for a few months. We called them products but they were ads. It was simple stuff like events or signs. Nothing as devious as trying to win an election. But putting out messages like these can be with great power comes great responsibility. One group in the graphics shop made a slogan: “One Nation.” Which in the U.S. is patriot but means “one race” in a different country. So with its unpredictability and no rules we see all these garage ads. But these problems weren’t discovered by me. The U.S. Government is battling social media and at the same time exploiting media for their own purposes.

I did not explain this well. I mean not Amazon themselves choosing a candidate but an entity that could target ads like Amazon does for “things you may like.” I mean target ads like Amazon. I am glad some things aren’t political. Bruce Schneier says stuff like this is possible in his book Data and Goliath. I don’t have perfect knowledge of all the wars. They are not going to say what information influenced their decision. I only know what the news and media organizations say. And those are the same as the ones trying to influence me. I’m just figuring the real issues aren’t being addressed. Both sides are liers. Then there is the issue that voting doesn’t scientifically work. But that is another issue.

What is Amazon promoted one Presidential candidate over another? I mean they are pretty good at showing things that I may be interested in. And they can change the price to influence me. Bruce Schenier’s Data and Goliath book states that personal data is collected, shared, and sold. It has all your demographics and psychological profile. They can essentially read your mind. But my questions are how are both candidates using this information? And.does it change your mind and influence your vote. It doesn’t have to be a formal ad. For instance if I see the war in Ukraine is brutal and the people are fighting hard to fight Russia, but we limit what weapons and support we give them. And then the President of Ukraine want 6 billion dollars…I think there is something wrong…they have just created a war economy. But then next time I watch the news Trump says he can end the war. We laugh at this. After all Trump and Putin are friends. They are dictators. I try and apply scientific method: Trump’s term had no wars. But America would not fight or support an unjust war. And communism is bad. I know we always think our own opinions are correct. But you can see this is debatable. But our decisions could mean we were psyoped. I mean we don’t have perfect information. We only know what we are shown and they know how to influence us. But why would they want us to pick a side and divide us. Instead of the truth they give us 2 incomplete descriptions and they know best. Vote for what you believe in. I just wish there was science to combat the misinformation. Maybe if we had Trump and Harris’s Internet profiles we could predict what they would do in office. And we could send them ads to influence decisions towards a better world.

At everyone. If sex is bad then why can humans do it on command while animals wait till mating season? That is just what the nature show on PBS said. I think the strong desire for sex in humans is so the species reproduces. But men treating women badly is more than about sex. I think here it is the culture versus Christianity. It isn’t the religion it is the beliefs a person has. Just on 60 Minutes the Priest was selling babies to the U.S. The Priest is Christian and probably thinks he is doing right. To him these babies were from unwed mothers. But religion aside we are all making decisions that may seem right but aren’t. We have the capacity but we also have the decision power to not be animals. But what if your environment forces you to become animalistic? Someone in war will be forced to become a killer. So it comes down to what we think and make the decision. Me and iNow discussed mis-information and subliminal ads. How can we stay sexually pure with everything around us promoting sex? All the ads and websites; and sex is just a small fraction of our lives.