CNN has decided to call the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus a pandemic.  The World Health Organization has yet to dub it that.  There is panic buying of masks and paper products, and some are stocking up on canned goods in case there is a quarantine.  In Manhattan, the streets are full of people and […]

Posted on March 9th, 2020 by admin
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In the refined world of supercomputers, if you’ve got it, flaunt it.  That’s what Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is doing by announcing El Capitan, a supercomputer that can process two quintillion calculations per second.  That’s two exaflops or better yet, 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, an unimaginable number.  It will cost $600 million to build and will […]

Posted on March 5th, 2020 by admin
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It is hard to believe a Harvard graduate student said this to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon when the company was young and unproven.  The point of the article is that people judge businesses from the perspective of the present and not with an eye to the future.  They don’t have the vision and foresight […]

Posted on March 2nd, 2020 by admin
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