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Bronx Outdoors

New York City was recognized as one of American Forests’ 10 Best Cities for Urban Forests. To those in disbelief, the urban jungle flaunts green space galore with all its grit and bricks. More impressively, the Bronx not only has among the greatest number of parks in all the 5 boroughs, but it is also home to some of the largest parklands within the city.

Anti-inflationary Wealth Concentration?

You would think that with nearly free money available, inflation would be soaring. So, why don’t we see much inflation? 1 reason this financial excess isn’t causing rampant inflation is that it is flowing into the hands of a ever smaller number of people, and those people don’t (can’t) spend enough of it to inflate prices of everyday items.

Darwin Awards Winners

My favorite yearly retrospective

Mechanic Sérgio A. Rosa, 49, was welding a gas tanker that, curiously, exploded, sending his remains flying 400 meters through the air.

Cellulose nanocrystals

This is a material that is showing really amazing properties. It is abundant, renewable and produced as waste in the paper industry.

AI Chemistry

some aspects of statistical machine learning could be implemented at microscopic scales using molecules.

Machine-learning algorithms could make chemical reactions intelligent, tuned to your personal chemistry to diagnose or treat a range of pathologies using “smart drugs”

Software Development knowledge

Greg Wilson talks about What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True

Networking Principles

Communications is not an easy science. The math is heavy, and intuition is slow to develop. To complicate things further, the field does not stay put. New concepts are always coming to the fore.

This website offers tutorials I have written on various topics in analog and digital communications that will help you cut through this complexity. I keep adding to this collection, albeit very slowly.

Our field represents a pinnacle of human achievement in applied mathematics. During our engineering education, most of us don’t develop the intuitive understanding of these beautiful ideas. I have tried to make these tutorials as simple as is possible given all the math required. I hope I have been successful in taking you closer to the “aha” mome

Energy futures

much smaller, higher efficiency turbines are coming (a boring but crucial part), and renewables will finally drop below utility cost in ~2 years. that makes large scale grids unsustainable, and will lead to smaller, decentralized plants. which is also great for resiliency.

Best TV ending

On August 21, 2005, the HBO drama 6 Feet Under concluded with a 7-minute montage of flash-forwards revealing how each of the remaining main characters die. The episode, “Everybody’s Waiting,” was immediately hailed as the most satisfying TV ending ever

i never watched the show, but this montage is amazing.

Open Worm

open worm is an open source attempt to construct an artificial life form from the cellular level to the point where it’s able to have basic problem-solving abilities.