Fri. 07/23 - Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping
Rounding errors may cause winners to become losers and losers winners, Bezos and James Webb both fall to Earth, and beyond lobster shortages, now crabs. Links: (American Journal of Physics) (The Verge) (CNN) (Nature)...
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Rounding errors may cause winners to become losers and losers winners, Bezos and James Webb both fall to Earth, and beyond lobster shortages, now crabs.
Links:
- The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices (American Journal of Physics)
- Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)
- Progressives call out Jeff Bezos’s space flight as “self-indulgent” and renew calls for wealth tax (CNN)
- NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims (Nature)
- Consider the $34 Lobster Roll (New York Times)
- Record lobster prices sign of sky-high demand (SeafoodSource)
- Mysterious blue crab shortage spawns big-time sticker shock (E&E News)
- Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)
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