by Tom | Sep 23, 2015 | Business, Government, Hong Kong / China, Reading
A very good summary of where China is at from a US perspective. Some breathtaking stats, e.g. soft power version 1: the students. The lesser-known side of the story is that China is also now a major consumer of U.S. goods. About one-quarter of the soybeans grown in...
by Tom | Sep 19, 2015 | Personal, Reading, Science
Got to love the frontiers of science. Mathematics and biology are my favourites this year.
by Tom | Sep 11, 2015 | Personal, View
This is excellent too. I’m a stickler for e.g. My count and mass nouns, but they do relate directly to the world and our interaction with it. On the could care less issue: I’m not sure I care.
by Tom | Sep 11, 2015 | View
This is excellent. Especially the shoe and his sign off.
by Tom | Sep 4, 2015 | General
Not sure where to begin with this. It’s popular, though.
by Tom | Aug 27, 2015 | IT, Reading, Tech
If you can’t detect Google Chrome updates (PDF), you can’t detect anything. Bejsasus.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2015 | Reading, Tech
More excellent mind-blowing thinking today. Google is taking the technology that it used to generate Google Translate (which doesn’t really understand languages) and applying it to thoughts. “If you take the vector for Paris and subtract the vector for France...
by Tom | Aug 25, 2015 | Business, IT, Reading, Tech
This is hilarious and so true. Security types read and learn. Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from...
by Tom | Aug 24, 2015 | Personal, Reading, Science
Wow. One of those rare change your opinion reads (for me, of course, YMMV). A must read and the devastating summary I’d select is this: …the terrible truth is that, except through surgery, for the great majority of sufferers, obesity is an incurable...
by Tom | Aug 6, 2015 | Science, View
Properly brilliant waste of a year+ and loads of money to get a hoverboard going. Insane. Worth watching the behind the scenes video as well. Some track trickery, but nothing that couldn’t be made to work in real life.
