Reading Time: 2 minutes In a tale of fact imitating fiction the US Navy is looking at ways to support the military in future conflicts by creating bases which allow ships to act as a combined space, which they call sea basing (or seabasing). The reason for this is in battles with the likes of China they may not… Continue reading Seabasing
Month: July 2015
Links of the day | 在网上找到
Reading Time: 2 minutes Index funds may be conspiring against the very same investors who fund them | Quartz – interesting analysis on index funds, surely this would also be the issue with ‘shareholder value’ in general? Oracle’s cloud sales – Business Insider – short term numbers for long term losses Shanghai Street View: Wealth Explosion – high street wealth management products,… Continue reading Links of the day | 在网上找到
Frank Wilczek: “A Beautiful Question”
Reading Time: < 1 minute Really interesting talk on physics and mathematics as it relates to aesthetics by Frank Wilczek. The talk was shot at a Google campus. Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist based at MIT. More related content here.