I haven't trusted Charlie Munger at all since reading a paper he wrote about how wonderful an investment in Coca-Cola stock is. He told all about their great growth rate, cash flow etc but never once mentioned if drinking caffeinated sugar water on a regular basis is good for you (its not, its very unhealthy).
One of the most intelligent people I went to college with just always seemed to ask the dumbest, most simple questions to the professor. I know now, that what he was doing was establishing the ground floor so to speak of his knowledge. The first principles. Once he had those in hand, he knew he could use logic and deduce most of the rest. Especially when grounded in the mathematical equations that went along
with the first principles.
The "Stuff Made Here" guy on youtube is working on an "unpickable" lock. He has made some neat stuff including a pool cue that can't miss and a basketball hoop that doesn't miss.
Have you tried the simple solution of putting an ice pack on your back? Also, stop driving in your car with your wallet in your back pocket. Also, avoid hot tub as this will make it worse. Don't sit for long periods. Get up and walk. You look young and healthy and these are the solutions I had when I was younger when I had back pain.
I have chronic back pain due to a disease which went undiagnosed for most of my life.
I understand that this comment is made in good faith and with the best of intents, but I loathe getting this kind of advice. I'm not trying to be a dick, I just want to let you know that this advice is extremely frustrating for a lot of people suffering from back pain. ESPECIALLY "you look young and healthy"...Yea thanks, I'll probably still look young when I'm in a wheelchair.
PS If your back hurts and your doctor doesn't seem to believe you or care, get a new doctor.
Thank you! I appreciate your tips. Yes, I move around a lot, I practice acrobatics at least a few times a week :) I think the original injury may have something to do with doing back bends improperly years ago, or snowboarding.
I recently went to one session with a PT to diagnose it, since it's returned again this year. It's probably chronically strained quadratus lumborum or some other muscle involved in spinal extension. Avoiding upright sitting as much as possible definitely helps. I've recently moved closer to things so that I can bicycle to most things instead of driving, and I think that's helped too.
The PT thinks the solution is to train my movement patterns to use more core / glute stabilization rather than dumping the responsibility on the back muscles. There are various exercises to help train those patterns and strengthen then muscles involved.
Left out my favorite from Steve Martin. "The French have their own word for practically everything!"
But seriously, left out from the list of great of Frenchmen Laplace, Lagrange, Galois, DeLambert etc. But I guess the list of mathematicians would have made the book too thick.
So do pdf-417 barcodes. I remember writing the code for pdf417_decode and pdf417_encode (freeware) back in the day. The Blahut book on error correcting codes was a great help, but all the examples where using binary galois fields. The pdf-417 used a field of powers of 3 mode 929, so my brain had to figure out how that worked and put it into code.
I did some work in 2000's (aughts) using a Zigby and a spare water meter to keep track of leaks and water usage on a computer for home use. I even made a youtube video (since deleted by youtube). I was a Best Buy recently and saw essentially the same produce that was "invented" by a guy in California and developed by his son into a multi-million dollar company. Trying to piece together what happened 13 years ago is tough, I can only wonder at how hard it is after 30 years. There is a lot of corporate mytheogy that
is allowed. When I worked for a certain supercomputer company, they put out the myth that the founder spent his spare time digging a tunnel from his home to his lakefront beach. Not true, but got the company a lot of free PR.
Article is striking in its contradictions. Amtrak it is said was approaching profitability but somehow has $30 billion dollars of needed repairs on the North East Corridor routes? How about users of this train pay in terms of higher ticket prices? And if they can't there are Zoom meetings now instead of adding car lanes.
I believe that the Cray-2 used 3M fluids (flourinert) for liquid immersion cooling when it was introduced in 1985. It was in several data centers including one at Lawrence Livermore Labs. It was not something invented by crypto currency miners or Microsoft. Get your facts straight Microsoft.
This is nothing new. I had a Shearson account back in the early 1980s and bought an oil company stock that was undervalued. One of those leveraged buyouts occurred when I was on a short vacation, and I did not find about the expiration of a buyout offer (no broker bothered to call me). Later I found out that Shearson had sold a lot of shares from their customer accounts to get the benefit of the buyout offer, and replaced them with lower priced shares after the offer expired. Later, Sandy W., the head of Shearson was hailed as a financial genius. This was nearly 40 years ago.
