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December 16, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Math Professor's Lemma
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Oh, woops, I meant to write 'the solution is trivial.'
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December 15, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Perils of Population
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Some day, we will go beyond this little blue planet, spanning the stars, numbering in the trillions, and we will keep AI at bay by making it do all the paperwork.
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BAHFest Submissions are now open for BAH MIT and BAH London!
December 14, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Talk
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Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a superior universe where all comics are this dorktastic.
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Drawn with great humility and thanks to one of my favorite people. Scott did all of the real work, and I threw in some dirty jokes. So, hey, a pretty good deal all around.
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Wednesday Book Reviews!
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (McWhorter) [image error]
I’m still on this McWhorter kick. This one was good, but not as good as some of the others. It’s about English and its interactions with other languages. The bulk of the book is about the idea that repeated conquests of English speakers resulted in English being particularly simplified in terms of its grammar, especially compared to related languages. There is also a large section on a proposed link between Celtic and English grammar, and even a section positing links between German and Hebrew. The latter idea is based on the work of Theo Vennemann, whose ideas are (as far as I could tell from google and wikipedia) found to be interesting but probably wrong. Because it’s McWhorter, there’s also a long lament about the popular usage of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. You get the feeling that his later book “The Language Hoax” was a great unburdening of linguistic angst.
An Extraordinary Time (Levinson)[image error] This is yet another book about the idea that we are in a period of stagnation in terms of economic improvement for the average western person. Although it was enjoyable, as a book it didn’t make a strong argument. Most of the book is (admittedly fascinating) historical tidbits about technological development, mostly in the 20th century leading up to the 1970s. Levinson’s perspective ultimately agrees with that of Robert Gordon and Tyler Cowen, at least to the extent that they all blame the nature of post-1970s technology for the failure to improve the average person’s life. And, like, the others, Levinson has hope that a few technologies on deck (e.g. self-driving cars) will reverse that trend.
December 13, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - One Letter
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If you're not familiar with the letter, it's Greek. They called it 'backwardsthreeos.'
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December 12, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pi
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God: Did you know you can TRIPLE the amount of anything, using this special constant called Three?
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December 11, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Heroes
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Oh hey, if I make it artistic in the last panel, I don't even have to draw a background. Or legs!
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December 10, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - I'm going to kill you
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I wonder if you could design a Telephone app that'd make the game better by ensuring perfect quality transmission.
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December 9, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Accursed Discounts
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If you're wondering why it doesn't make noise when the dad holds it, it's because all dads are dead inside.
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BAHFest submissions are open for BAHFest London! This year is open theme, so let your dorky heart roam to new vistas of stupidity.
December 8, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Irrational
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I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry.
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December 7, 2016
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Denial of Death
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I will never understand why existentialists eat salad.
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