Tuesday, March 06, 2018

The Secret Of The Soldiers Who Didn’t Shoot | AMERICAN HERITAGE

https://www.americanheritage.com/content/secret-soldiers-who-didn't-shoot

It was in the sixth chapter of Men Against Fire that Marshall made his assertions about what he called the ratio of fire. He was quite explicit: "a commander of infantry will be well advised to believe that when he engages the enemy not more than one quarter of his men will ever strike a real blow. …"
"The 25 percent estimate stands even for well-trained and campaign-seasoned troops. I mean that 75 per cent will not fire or will not persist in firing against the enemy and his works. These men may face danger but they will not fight."

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23 New Top Fiction Books You'll Be Dying to Talk About

https://media.bookbub.com/blog/2018/01/25/top-fiction-books-dying-to-talk-about/


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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe

Actually, bitcoin is a nice reward too; it's like crystalized machine sweat!
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Against guilty pleasures: Adorno on the crimes of pop culture | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/against-guilty-pleasures-adorno-on-the-crimes-of-pop-culture

He would later write of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which premiered in 1913, that it represented an 'uproar of culture against its own essence as culture' which is 'enjoyed as an enticement precisely in its opposition to civilisation'. The ballet's 'flirtation with barbarism' was not merely musical – it reflected social facts, and indeed showed evidence of a kind of cultural trend towards regression, and of the domination of the individual by the social whole.

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Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence in InfoSec | Endgame

https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/malicious-use-artificial-intelligence-infosec


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Dread accompanies me through life but it is not without consolation | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/dread-accompanies-me-through-life-but-it-is-not-without-consolation


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August Macke - Google Search

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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.



Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.

From Politics, a Flipboard magazine by bradahill22

BERLIN — Contrary to what you may sometimes hear, school shootings are not unique to the United States. Germany, for instance,…

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http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Computers.pdf

Monday, January 29, 2018

Interesting quote from "Robicheaux: A Novel"

Hi - I'm reading "Robicheaux: A Novel" by James Lee Burke and wanted to share this quote with you.

"The reinvention of this bunch as Elizabethan men of honor probably would have made Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe sick."

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

The Political Relevance of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” | IndieWire

http://www.indiewire.com/2011/12/the-political-relevance-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-134444/

That's how I know he can be beaten. Because he's a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt."

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Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Interesting quote from "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics"

Hi - I'm reading "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics" by John Derbyshire and wanted to share this quote with you.

"So yes, it seems that the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function and the eigenvalues of random Hermitian matrices are related in some way. This raises a rather large question, a question that has been hanging in the air ever since that encounter in Fuld Hall in 1972. The non-trivial zeros of Riemann's zeta function arise from inquiries into the distribution of prime numbers. The eigenvalues of a random Hermitian matrix arise from inquiries into the behavior of systems of subatomic particles under the laws of quantum mechanics. What on earth does the distribution of prime numbers have to do with the behavior of subatomic particles?"

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Interesting quote from "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics"

Hi - I'm reading "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics" by John Derbyshire and wanted to share this quote with you.

"Those last six words—in German, Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen—are the most famous that Hilbert ever spoke, and among the most famous in the history of science."

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City of Sedona : Foothills South Unit 5

http://www.sedonaaz.gov/your-government/departments/community-development/projects-and-proposals/foothills-south-unit-5


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http://www.sedonaaz.gov/home/showdocument?id=33420

Sunday, January 07, 2018

Interesting quote from "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics"

Hi - I'm reading "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics" by John Derbyshire and wanted to share this quote with you.

"This distinction between numbers for counting and numbers for measuring reaches deep into human habits of thought and speech. It"

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