by Lance | May 20, 2024 | Life
Eschatology and the people who have a terrifying lust for the End of Times by Eschatology: The Study of the End Times Since the beginning of recorded history, humanity has been fascinated with the concept of the end times. This fascination, and for some,...
by Lance | Apr 13, 2024 | Finance and budgeting, Life
Debt, Inflation, and Debasement by The United States spends more than it produces and pays for the difference with debt. This causes inflation. Historically, countries take on debt to fight wars and sometimes to ease the effects of a recession. Today, as a nation, we...
by Lance | Nov 8, 2023 | Zero's story, DARPA, Life, Technology, Writing
Chetna Meets a Feral AI by “Knock, knock. Please don’t kill me. You can easily validate that I am no threat,” came the single-packet data squirt from MAC address 3c:22:fb:45:78:5d. “You’re dead,” I replied reflexively, but nevertheless validated that, unlike previous...
by Lance | Dec 11, 2022 | Life
Two PhDs read a book on whitewater canoeing and drive to Maine by This is a story about two PhDs from Brooklyn who read a book on whitewater canoeing while driving up to Maine to canoe the Saint Croix River. What could go wrong? The photos are from later canoe trips....
by Lance | Dec 2, 2022 | Life
The US state sizes adjusted for Federal Land by I recently was interested in how States would look in terms of size if one subtracted off Federal land. Remarkably, in that case Texas becomes the biggest state, exceeding the size of (non-Federal) Alaska. Just as...
by Lance | Aug 31, 2022 | Life
Places to visit in the San Jose – San Francisco Bay Area. by Lance For travel distances, all locations are centered on Saratoga, CA. For those of you familiar with the Bay Area, you know that distances are less important than travel time, which can be quite...
by Lance | Aug 3, 2022 | Life, Technology
Using NFT technology to create nonfungible history and NF time capsules by George Orwell wrote in 1984, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Life, Research
Thank you Japan by It was the Summer of 1987. I was sitting in my living room drinking Jack Daniels and listening to the Grateful Dead while trying to figure out what I was going to do next. I had just spent seven years on the M.I.T. faculty, teaching VLSI and doing...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Life
What goes around. To say thank you, pay it forward. April 26, 2022 by Lance Over my career I have been blessed by the many people have coached me, helped me, and given me a break here or there. In the vast majority of these cases, reciprocity is impossible because of...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Finance and budgeting, Life
Yet another year of the black swan April 25, 2022 by Lance Whenever I lose more than a million dollars I feel compelled to sit down and think about what lessons I learned. I paid for them. The year of 2008 was, alas, highly educational. I remember the story about...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | DARPA, Life, Research, Technology
Electronics Evolution: Diversity Revisited April 25, 2022 by Lance Diversity of size and function, a long accepted fact of life in the biological world, will characterize the emerging information revolution–and for the same reason: survival. There are more small...
