10/21/2024 -- Lewis Carroll was a logician, mathematician (influenced by Boole).
Thomas and Margaret (Fryer) Gardner of Salem, MA
Sponsored by the Thomas Gardner Society, Inc.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Alice, of the Nantucket bunch
Monday, October 14, 2024
Native Americans
Native American Knowledge |
10/14/2024 --
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Computational Chemistry
In summary, the achievements of David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper in thefields of computational protein design and protein structure prediction are truly profound. Theirwork has opened up a new era of biochemical and biological research, where we can now predictand design protein structures in ways that had not been possible before. Hence, a long-standinggoal has finally been met, and the impact of this will have far-reaching consequences.
Remarks: Modified: 10/09/2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Machine learning
Remarks: Modified: 10/08/2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
Birthplace of the US Navy
- Rev. Hubbard (2 May 2015): In the Remarks for 4 May 2015, we mentioned that Dover and Portsmouth were candidates.
- Evidently, Portsmouth came into the lead.
Remarks: Modified: 09/30/2024
Friday, September 27, 2024
Past and present
TL;DR -- The 250th of the U.S. will allow lots of research to get some air, as the attention goes to the history of the country. We will follow that thread several ways, including a deep look at technology of computing with respect all aspects that we know, to date. We can compare different areas. One of these one-up looks will be NYC and LA, in order by age. LA is comparatively a youngster. The dynamisms of the two difer quit a bit, too.
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Some locations kept good records via photographs of their change through time. At the same time, we have temporal issues such as Los Angeles being younger than New York City. Then we have technology bringing in abilities that can be pinpointed in time. For instance, we know that Gardner, the photographer, was active during the Civil War. We posted several photos from his era, including one from Lawrence, KS. We called the post with the photo "Frontier century" (April 2021); its themes were several: the great expansion in the middle after the revolution (deed done primarily by the 5th generation); families being lost in time as they escaped the heavy hand of documentation; and modern efforts at recovering evidence of their existence).
We will continue to focus on the middle of the country but have, of late, been looking at Los Angeles and its Bunker Hill (west, we call it) that mainly appeared in the late 1800s and went away a century later to be replaced by high-climbing things that cast a long shadow. We have had lots of photos of the LA area and can be more intimate as we find older photos to match up with something recent.
LA and NY City across time |
Before moving on, we know that NY City has tall builidngs. Lots of them. The tallest now is the One World Trade Center at almost 1,800 feet. Wikipedia has a list of buildings taller than 600 feet (110 buildings).
In DTLA, the tallest building is only 1,100 feet). The LA City Hall is 454 feet (it's shown on the left in photo) and is the 42nd largest building. The smallest (53rd in the Wikipedia list) stands at 352 feet.
We mentioned Bunker Hill west. It got its name, of course, from the site of a Revolutionary battle. We will be looking more at that area in DTLA as it represents changes over time, as influx of population changes the dynamics of a location. With a great collection of photos from different periods, we find people taking photos from that same area and focus of direction.
Related to Bunker Hill west is this one that show 101 early on and then later. In the meantime, St. Vibiana's was closed as a church (became an event's center) and moved up the hill from Main Street to the summit. Parts of that area had been lowered early. Houses and dirt were taken away to have proper foundation for buildings. One story to look at is the Central Library which experienced two fires by arson. During the time of recovery, maneuverings got the building limit raised from that related to the height of the City Center. So, the first one went up to cast a shadow over the library. The library sold its "air rights" as one means to fund getting back to its work. They had to replace $Ms in burnt books, for instance.
LA Central Libray with its "twin" (to the right) U.S. Bank Tower |
Remarks: Modified: 09/27/2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
HD Thoreau, Minnesota
Instead of helping Harvard, he said, men should consider giving money to their towns to preserve and protect a huckleberry patch.The “commercial spirit” of the day, he said, rested on a love of wealth that made people selfish and greedy. The world would be a better place, he said, if people “made riches the means and not the end of existence.”
- HDT's Final Journey: Minnesota - Mayo took note of HDT. They provide this quote: “For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life — I wrote this some years ago — that were worth the postage.”
- Thoreau and the Minnesota River - being a naturalist, HD would have wandered under the MN skies.
- The Life of HDT - one bit of activity by HD was forming a school with his brother. HD had taught at Harvard and wanted to spread the good joy of learning. We will be looking at this type of thing in depth, as New England, from its start, emphasized universal education.
Information on his supporters. John Keyes (Autobio, WikiTree - brother George) R. W. Emerson (our post) |
- Professor tailors AI tutor for Physics - one encouraging result is that this effort followed the theme of increasing human insight using the tool of the artificial tutor. Test results indicate that those in the study who used the AI mode scored better. There is a lot to look at, but this work has to consider psychological and social factors with respect to the tutor experience.