random thoughts of a procrastinating researcher

I came across a neat video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XLXg4fYsc&t=362s  and thought I would summarize the results in a quick-to-...

We are currently in the worst possible time in the USA for COVID19 infections. Every day, the number of daily infections is climbing at an e...

Let's look at the COVID19 testing data (taken from  https://covidtracking.com/ ). I took the daily difference of the total, which repres...

There is a lot of talk nowadays about the Singularity, the scary rate of development of intelligent machines, and the future of artificial i...

I received a message from a local news TV anchor: " Hello, I'm with KWQC TV6 in Davenport, Iowa and am working on a story abou...

Bitcoin transaction fees are too damn high! The rising transaction fees for Bitcoin have caused a major split, leaving the Bitcoin comm...

The promise of eliminating runaway inflation by irresponsible governments was one of the major reasons I became interested in Bitcoin. I alw...