Month: April 2018

Hayakawa et al, Sunspot Drawings by Japanese Official Astronomers in 1749-1750 — better figures than most papers on the arXiv! https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08614

Sri Lankan hoppers for brunch courtesy Weligama at The Pear Tree Café, Battersea Park.

Academic friends: when you post about a paper on the arXiv, please link to the web page for the abstract, not the pdf download.

The illusion of time: “Andrew Jaffe probes Carlo Rovelli’s study arguing that physics deconstructs our sense of time.”

I saw Facebook’s “Protecting Your Information” top-post today, which I think means that Cambridge Analytica didn’t use my data to overhype their lame data science and amoral political consulting.