In the 1980s, I used the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, or Darpanet, to collaborate with colleagues worldwide. Web browsers did not yet exist, but a text-based program called Lynx allowed us to use the Web programming language HTML to share and format our work in progress. Around 1990, the Darpanet became the Internet. Soon Netscape appeared with their … [Read more...] about On the risk of becoming stupid
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Fitting an Elephant in the 3.11 Tsunami
My friend and colleague, the brilliant Dave Tappin, has great evidence that the height of the 3.11 tsunami was significantly augmented by an undersea slump, or submarine landslide. He has voiced this opinion for some time. Let this put on notice those who rely on only tweaking the parameters of simulations to arrive at the results actually measured. The famous mathematician … [Read more...] about Fitting an Elephant in the 3.11 Tsunami