Follow up: Czech is why we must all wear cloth face masks
March 2020 In the spring of 2020, Covid case counts were low in the Czech Republic. A native writer from Czech, now living a dual life in both the US…
Demographics: University opens up senior housing for age 65+
Combining the amenities of college life with the wallets and activity desires of older adults. Source: Retiring to college at age 65? Some new ‘seniors’ are coming to universities –…
Business Oops: How could anyone have seen SVB’s collapse coming?
Raging Ventures saw it coming and posted the details on Twitter on January 18, 2023, two months in advance of the collapse. Why were Federal banking regulators hibernating all winter?
Business, Economy: Google won’t honor previous commitments to some laid off workers
Google’s employee motto used to be “Don’t be evil”. They dropped that a few years ago and have not looked back: Google is indicating to ex-staffers, who got laid off…
Demographics, Economy: Subscriptions everywhere
In a low fertility rate, declining population growth and eventually shrinkage, businesses can no longer depend on the traditional expanding market for their products. Instead, we move from the purchase-and-ownership…
Software-> Very nice: “Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups”
Codon is a new tool that compiles Python code to run it more efficiently and effectively while allowing for customization and adaptation to various domains. Source: Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude…