…Technology Options, 2010, Eos. CAES: Compressed Air Energy Storage. Here’s another look at the financial rewards to anyone who can figure this out. Note how demands on the Texas electricity grid (ERCOT) are almost 100% inversely correlated with when the wind blows. Either ERCOT...
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…for the game. Physically, I was like my father. I had natural hand coordination which made delicate tasks come easily — one reason I would soon discover a pastime that lent itself to acts of kibbutz mischief bordering on juvenile delinquency. But when it came to larger muscles, I...
Defining Intelligence 157 guess that she doesn’t think about causation because no one ever tried to get her to do so. So she may very well be smart but she sounds stupid because she seems to be unaware of her own causal reasoning and is not very good at it. Being good at underst...
…gh time to understand my feelings before speaking or acting. Still. Through the stupid mistakes and the understandable ones, though my own failures to be sensitive and the little heartbreaks I've sustained, I've been learning. One thing I think I've figured out is what I want:...
…e had to stay until after he left, and he often worked late. He did not believe in vacation for the clerks—“It’s only a one year job, and that means 365 days”—no personal time off. When I first came to work over the summer, I asked him for a few days off to take a preparation cou...
…ll used pencil and paper for most things; the newly-invented mechanical cash registers were slow and could perform only one calculation for each crank of the handle. If you wanted to calculate something complex, you had to employ a computer: a person who could do mental arithmeti...
… of what is happening at the intersection of our current technologies, the arts, and cybernetics. Treister has been a pioneer in digital art since the 1990s, inventing, for example, imaginary video games and painting screen shots from them. In her project Hexen 2.0 she looked bac...
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…f his verdict. I would indeed be named the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade in the Sinai, and promoted to full colonel. Our base was a 15 miles from the canal. It was a huge expanse of sand ringed by metal fencing. We spent three months at a time in this forward deployment...
…irst Family prerogatives. In addition, the president had immediately handed Jared the Middle East portfolio, making him one of the significant international players in the administration—indeed, in the world. In the first weeks, this brief extended out to virtually every other in...
…spiration, and I worked hard to achieve it. Law, of course, was based on precedent: you got points for showing that someone, particularly a judge, had said earlier what you are saying now. I hated that approach. It reminded me of my Yeshiva education. I wanted to be original. Eve...
…sudden halt, as people were in a constant state of feeling mistreated by the other group. The pendulum would swing from one side (green) to the other (blue), each time a President is found to have committed blatant and large-scale corruption. The politicians won, but the people l...
…issue here. If they want to learn to hit a baseball, having a theory about what makes a good swing and what makes a bad one may matter to them. The subject matter doesn’t matter at all really, just the thinking and the experimentation. This suggests that the real way to teach ex...
…tral and distributed power. This changes the nature of these nodes. A connected doctor is different than an unconnected one. Well, here is another insight we should know: The simple, benign looking act of connection makes complicated objects into complex ones. The moment an objec...