Directed by Carlton Cuse. With John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Ali Suliman. Jack's moral code is tested when he and Greer use a Turkish criminal to help them track down a high-value target who may be able to lead them to Suleiman. Hanin tries to evade her pursuers and keep her daughters safe. Cathy investigates an outbreak of a virulent form of Ebola that may point to something more ominous.
Month: January 2019
👓 Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test | HuffPost
Tribal leaders and Native people say the senator is an ally — and they support her look at her ancestry. But hardly anyone asked them.
👓 First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners calling out sick | CNN
Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports
🎧 “The Daily”: Nancy Pelosi’s Last Fight | New York Times
The leader of the House Democrats faces challenges from multiple factions in her quest to regain the speakership.
🎧 “The Daily”: What’s Going On With Paul Manafort? | New York Times
We look at several twists in the case of President Trump’s former campaign chairman that raise fresh questions for the special counsel investigation.
👓 Professor Emeritus David Henderson dies in accident | Cornell Chronicle
Professor Emeritus David Wilson Henderson, whose commitment to mathematics education stretched into retirement, died Dec. 20 in Delaware, at age 79.
🎧 “The Daily”: The Business of Selling Your Location | New York Times
Smartphone apps track a staggering amount of data about our whereabouts every day. That data has become a hot commodity.
Just the national security implications for this alone should require regulations of these tech companies.
Took my first extended walk with the dog since I broke my foot/toes just before the holidays. It still hurts and is a bit swollen, but at least things are good enough that I’m not in constant pain and walking with a severe limp.
Acquired 2 packages of Brodart Advantage I Book Jacket Cover Sheets
Adjustable polypropylene covers are acid-free and available in prepackaged sheets (24' x 12", non-reflective, qty 25)
- Polypropylene is a flexible, quiet material that will stretch but not tear
- Recommended for non-circulating or personal collections
- Available in two film clarities:
- Non-Reflective – Covers have a matte finish to hide imperfections, flaws, and fingerprints; covers also reduce glare
- Clear – Covers are crystal clear and have a glossy finish to show off new book graphics
- Acid-free polypropylene; will not yellow or crack with age
- Not recommended for use in book drops
- 2.5-mil sheets
👓 PW Takes Over the Millions | Publishers Weekly
PWxyz, parent company of 'Publishers Weekly,' has acquired the online magazine the Millions, as well as its website TheMillions.com, for an undisclosed price.
I needed a late morning pick-me up and it’s close enough to lunch, right?!
📺 “United Shades of America” Latino, USA | CNN
With W. Kamau Bell. The population of East Los Angeles is over 90 percent Latino; they are predicted to be the majority population of Americans by 2044; W. Kamau Bell speaks to many Latinos who are fighting prejudice and spreading the message of tolerance.
It helps to watch an episode reflecting some culture in my own back yard. I’ve now got a better barometer by which to judge some of the rest of the series.
Kamau gets it pretty solid, though there’s a lot more poverty and struggle while his version here makes things seem much more upbeat. Like Kamau in this episode, I’m almost tempted to say “Soy Chicano tambien.”
📺 “United Shades of America” Behind These Walls | CNN
With W. Kamau Bell, Samuel Robinson. WKB visits San Quentin, one of the most progressive prisons from a rehabilitation standpoint.
Apparently San Quentin is a drastically different place than popular culture would make it seem.
Acquired Category Theory for the Sciences by David I. Spivak
An introduction to category theory as a rigorous, flexible, and coherent modeling language that can be used across the sciences.
Category theory was invented in the 1940s to unify and synthesize different areas in mathematics, and it has proven remarkably successful in enabling powerful communication between disparate fields and subfields within mathematics. This book shows that category theory can be useful outside of mathematics as a rigorous, flexible, and coherent modeling language throughout the sciences. Information is inherently dynamic; the same ideas can be organized and reorganized in countless ways, and the ability to translate between such organizational structures is becoming increasingly important in the sciences. Category theory offers a unifying framework for information modeling that can facilitate the translation of knowledge between disciplines.
Written in an engaging and straightforward style, and assuming little background in mathematics, the book is rigorous but accessible to non-mathematicians. Using databases as an entry to category theory, it begins with sets and functions, then introduces the reader to notions that are fundamental in mathematics: monoids, groups, orders, and graphs―categories in disguise. After explaining the “big three” concepts of category theory―categories, functors, and natural transformations―the book covers other topics, including limits, colimits, functor categories, sheaves, monads, and operads. The book explains category theory by examples and exercises rather than focusing on theorems and proofs. It includes more than 300 exercises, with solutions.
Category Theory for the Sciences is intended to create a bridge between the vast array of mathematical concepts used by mathematicians and the models and frameworks of such scientific disciplines as computation, neuroscience, and physics.
Ordered a copy from Amazon
📺 “United Shades of America” The New KKK | CNN
With W. Kamau Bell. WKB visits the "new" and "improved" KKK that is more concerned about its branding but still has the same hate.
I’m curious if this would look quite the same if made again now, just a bit over two years later?
I’m given some hope by Kamau’s experience in the small town with what seemed like the majority of the people there.