…is flawed. Which doesn’t differentiate it from any of California’s other frameworks.
Category Archives: Mathematics
Industrial Revolution
Why didn’t the Romans have one?
Before I read it, the first thing I thought was this: “How are engineers to do experiments and calculations without any concept of the experimental method, and without anything close to the mathematical tools that are available today to any fifth-grader?”
As he notes, they didn’t have Arabic numerals, they didn’t have zero, they didn’t have negative numbers, or complex numbers. They had no higher math, and no way to get to it with their numbering system. One of the foundations of the industrial revolution was the invention of calculus, and understanding of physics, including thermodynamics. That was all happening in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The other thing that was happening was the invention of capitalism in the coffee houses of London and Amsterdam (which wouldn’t have happened had coffee not become a thing in the wake of opening the New World). It’s not clear how, even had Rome not fallen, how they would have ever had those foundations.
[Update a while later]
Link is fixed now, sorry.
Hot And Bothered About Heat Waves
No, we can’t conclude anything about climate change from them.
“In fact the most recent (2021) report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not support the common claims about drought, floods, hurricanes and other severe weather events. Not only does the last IPCC report find no clear trends, it offers “low confidence” in predictions of future trends.”
AI Follies
An attempt to replace journalists goes awry.
Too Many Dishonorable People Are Honored
Hard to argue.
The Anti-Covid Policies
You don’t say. And as noted, there will probably be no political accountability, let alone anything more severe.
The EU’s Green Dreamland
And like all leftist fantasies, a perfectly predictable, and predicted one.
Michio Kaku’s Latest Book
It’s a must not read.
Emergent Properties Of AI
Are they a mirage?
The Democrats’ Debt-Ceiling Position
To be fair, most of their policy positions don’t make sense, at least from the standpoint of the well being of Americans.