This site under reconstruction.
Well, let’s rephrase that – I’ve been updating my graphs daily but I need to do an updated post on what I’m seeing and that is basically some states are seeing increases in infection rates since re-opening the economy. The source for these graphs and for all graphs in this post and pulled on 6/13/2020…
I think it’s safe to say these two will be our candidates. I hope this time we pick the right one but I’m dreading the rest of this year. It’s already so unremittingly bad with the multiple crises we’re going through. America, please be smart; we can’t have another four years of what we went…
I’ll have to change my assessment of Mitt Romney: back in 2012, when he was running against Barack Obama, I distrusted Romney because he was a former hedge fund manager so in my mind, he carries the capitalistic philosophy which is business exists for shareholders only. He probably still does but he has shown a…
Well, when I said that the protests reminded me of the Arab Rising, I never thought I would be closer to the truth. On Monday, the Trump administration used the Park Police/National Guards/Secret Service (I’m not clear which set of law enforcement were involved) to shoot rubber bullets and to tear gas (or say we…
The next chapter, or rather the next few chapters, in Algorithms for Dummies, by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron, is all about graphing but not in the typical way we regard graphing. Instead of a typical line or bar chart that we are familiar with, these Python graphs can be regarded as images of…
We’ve been here before. A couple of years ago we went through a spasm of shocking videos showing police violence against colored people. Those videos were painful to watch – and I really didn’t watch them – but they were necessary. Thank goodness for cell phones – they told the story of the colored reality…