Geoff Penington
@quantum_geoff
Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity.
In 1993 the Superconducting Supercollider was cancelled. Estimated cost: $8 billion. An exodus of physicists left to Wall Street, bringing fancy maths and dubious risk management. 15 years later the global financial crisis cost ~$20 trillion. This is why you don't defund physics!
To recap: Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription, trapping Americans in needless bureaucracy and wasting their time & money. @FTC began writing a “click-to-cancel” rule promoting efficient cancellation, a rulemaking process that…
This is higher than numbers I have heard, but is believable (insane though that is to say)
Update: was informed of a $1.25 billion offer for four years, new highest I've seen guys what the hell is going on
No more striking visual of America’s decline over the second half of the 19th century than going from hosting the first ever international cricket match to being obsessed with watching grown adults play rounders
I marvel every day that I live in a country that made baseball its national sport. This weird, technical, discrete, confusing, irregular, slow, long little game. Maybe no more striking visual of our decline than the shift from this complex, cerebral, statistical past time to the…
It's so weird that the graph for fertility v. female education and the graph for fertility v. male education look basically the same but you have probably only seen one on here.
Wait why does this have 32k likes lol of course he called the bottom he caused the bottom and then he decided to end it
He literally called the bottom.