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The fractal chaos of disinformation

http://dispatchtelegraph.tumblr.com/post/177427087404/some-sites-gain-dramatically-from-facebook Some sites gain dramatically from Facebook shares.during the last election, Biebarrt wa quite extraordinary. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/what-facebook-did/542502/

Henri Poincare crossed my radar

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Henri Poincare crossed my radar when I was home-studying a bit about Mandelbrot and the fractal. the backgrounder mentioned  a long string of mathematicians then unknown to me..that were in slight or not slight ways flag stones to the fractal. Poincare, it turns out, was one of Mandelbrot's scientific heros, as he said in an interview with MIT Tech student journalists in an off-the-cuff early 2000s interview. Said Mandelbrot of Poincare (to MIT students for The Tech in the early 2000s): Henri Poincare is a hero ..  He defied categories, because on the one hand he was, by quite a long stretch, the most amazing man of his time in many different areas but he never proved anything rigorously, so his community disliked him for his desire to leave difficulties to others because they enjoyed it and he didn’t. Further Mandelbrot on Poincare: his community disliked him for his desire to leave difficulties to others because they enjoyed it and he didn’t. What i found in...

Mandelbrot, set, hike

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When and where I grew up, the public lecture was a special thing. I saw Saul Alinsky, Edward Albee, Archibald MacLeish - for a high school kid in the hinterlands it was a strange eye opener. Like any father trying to show his son some of the spark he thought he saw, I took my son Jacob to more than a few lectures or panels, not in the hinterlands, but in our home in the Hub of the Universe. We saw Sheamus Heany, Douglas Brinkley, John Sinclair (with whom we became friends), Gen. Kinseki, One guy we failed to hook up with was Benoit Mandelbrot. We went to MIT for the lecture and got bloody lost. The buildings and grounds maps at MIT are not particularly well engineered, and getting lost is common. You know those dreams where you wander from room to room and encounter chains of weird effect? That's it! We failed to find the lecture room completely. Well, it is very likely the discussion would have lost us too! In any case, I fell by chance upon an interview from that event, d...

The Bold Stumps - Live at George's Tavern - Perfect Everytime

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Four square and fair years ago ... Aug 8 2018 - The Bold Stumps returned to entertain a Packed (Square and Fair) house at George's Tavern in Racine Wisconsin.  Jim Haas, Bob Stepien, Mike Brusha, John Ruetz, Jeff and Paul DeMark and I  at George's - on Main St just one block north of the bridge, down the hill from St Patrick’s and one block west of the old coast guard station not too far from the water works, the yacht club and the former home of Walker Muffler near the Eagles Club and close to where the guys used to go smelt fishing as well as about 6 or so blocks south of Lakeview recreation park and the zoo. We kicked off with Packed Fair and Square. Which we knew from J. Geils. The band was influential to us back in the day, as it was symetrically counter to prevailing wins at the time (long solos and jams). We also did Homework on this evening... actually as the formal set closer. Recently picked up on Big Walter Price's original, thanks to old pal Nicke Rudel...

Trump lies

His lies could consume all one's time and mind space. Bad Imp Don!