History: Homo Sapiens

Posted on Sun 03 May 2020 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

Homo Sapien is the biological classification which includes human beings as we know them today. The first homo sapiens appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago.


The Bethe Trick

Posted on Sat 02 May 2020 in update • Tagged with math, squares, numeracy

The Bethe Trick - Bethe taught Feynman how square quickly at Los Alamos.

The Bethe Trick


Advice to a dog

Posted on Fri 01 May 2020 in art • Tagged with survival, poetry

...especially in the rain, we need to walk together.

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To Survive [Alternate Translation]

Posted on Thu 30 April 2020 in art • Tagged with survival, translation, poetry

TO SURVIVE!

Endure, never beaten,

You are not a slave, enslaved;

Dreading, take heart,

Ferociously, as if mortally wounded.

With the tenacity of a badly rusted nail;

That in its age and ardor is still a nail;

Not the featherbrained fearlessness of the turkey;

Who is a coward when faced …


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One Line CMAKE Tutorial

Posted on Tue 28 April 2020 in tech • Tagged with cmake, programming

Everything I know about cmake in one line.

$ cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_RELEASE_TYPE=DEBUG -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=on -G"Unix Makefiles"
$ cd build && make -j

War Flying by a Pilot

Posted on Tue 28 April 2020 in news • Tagged with librivox, audiobook, history, warfare, recording

War Flying by a Pilot is available on librivox. This book is a well written and interesting account of the very early days of military aviation.