Patrick Honner on imaginary and complex numbers, Quanta Magazine:
… And they are the first step into a world of strange number systems, some of which are being proposed as models of the mysterious relationships underlying our physical world.
Good read.
Facebook, Google hit with lawsuits for ‘secret’ location tracking
I’ve been using Android Pie for the last two days and quite impressed. Using it without google apps seems like missing those AI functionalities. I’m looking forward how custom ROMs will handle that.
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”, the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses” ." 1