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Garry Kasparov: The 8-year-old chess champion’s story is quintessentially American
Talent is universal, but opportunity is not, and talent cannot thrive in a vacuum.
This is a great example of using the tidyverse for graph analysis #rstats
A good reminder to choose your models carefully when trying to prove something
An interesting article about changes in our perspective on Neanderthals. They are no longer primitive brutes
Cool research showing that embryos use an optimal Bayesian decoder to coordinate development
A timely article on how Pi led to infinity and calculus
Although I’m late to reading Michael Lewis' The Long Short, it’s hard to believe it is non-fiction. The story of the sub-prime mortgage crisis is incredible 📚
Thanks to @t_rig for the great goodr sunglasses
Emma’s hair has gone curly
Great to be back at the Royalton! 🏖
This was a really good episode of the Mindscape podcast all about the multi-worlds theory of quantum physics
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking is a fun book. Clear and concise answers to some important questions, written with Hawking’s whimsy and fully demonstrating his impressive curiosity 📚
Lots of fresh snow today
Although I’m disappointed the Counterpart wasn’t renewed for a third season, the second season ended really well. Definitely one of my favourite shows of the past few years.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 →
Finished reading: Wool by Hugh Howey 📚
I’ve been intrigued by Stoicism for a while now and How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci is a great introduction to the ideas and practices of the Stoics. I particularly appreciated how Pigliucci made the practice applicable to modern day issues. 📚
I find these attempts to generate quantum theory from simple postulates fascinating, even though I barely understand them
School ski trip 🎿
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 →
I committed to a 🚴 challenge before checking my results to see if it was reasonable. So, had to conduct some excessive #rstats to see if I was in trouble matt.routleynet.org/post/comm…
After just two episodes, I’m definitely enjoying season 2 of Star Trek Discovery more than season 1. There were good parts of season 1, but overall it didn’t hold together for me. Regardless, always great to have new Star Trek
After four great ski days, we rested our legs in the hot springs today
Another great ski day
The Nugget Squad
Another glorious day
A great first day on the mountain!
Warming up ⛷
-20 degrees, but there are smiles under the scarves ⛷
