Novae

re: Forgotten Gems of Jimi Hendrix

Posted by Novae on 2/28/24 at 11:11 am

This Bold as Love instrumental from the box set is my favorite Hendrix song: [link=(https://youtu.be/JxfuQ8a5gwA?si=5OyH7SteoCswl1e2)]Bold as Love (instumental)[/link] I also dig this Burning of the Midnight Lamp from the same session: [link=(https://youtu.be/CWWVc4AfnQo?si=CdRfu8ftVD1YC8iG...

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re: What history books in the future will cite for today as "they should've known"

Posted by Novae on 2/22/24 at 4:28 pm

You can thank Ross Perot for the balanced budget of the Clinton administration....

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re: Quantum Computing

Posted by Novae on 2/6/24 at 1:33 pm

QC is interesting in theory, not very useful in application. Shor's algorithm is about the only practical example of what QC can do better than classical computing, and that's with hundreds of really smart people thinking about QC for the past 40 years. I subscribe to Feynman's opinion that QC...

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re: Minneapolis Food Recs

Posted by Novae on 8/11/23 at 10:49 am

I had a great meal at Alma once upon a time. Nice walk from downtown....

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re: Book Recommendations

Posted by Novae on 8/10/23 at 9:38 am

The best business books are not about business. Read Taleb's Incerto and the Almanack of Naval....

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re: Some really interesting graphics that I came across related to modern issues

Posted by Novae on 7/14/23 at 10:24 am

#1 = Penrose's Law - first proposed by Sir Roger Penrose's father. Maybe the second smartest family ever behind the Wittgenstein's....

re: What are you reading?

Posted by Novae on 5/2/23 at 1:37 pm

[img]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51IwKPiWrHL.jpg[/img]...

re: What's your watch game today

Posted by Novae on 4/13/23 at 1:24 pm

New, 36mm with salmon dial....

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re: What's your watch game today

Posted by Novae on 4/13/23 at 11:50 am

Vulcain Cricket...

re: Favorite Built to Spill Songs

Posted by Novae on 9/13/22 at 9:54 am

Cortez and Virginia Reel Around the Fountain are a powerhouse combo on the live album....

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re: Heat 2 Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner 8/9

Posted by Novae on 8/26/22 at 3:08 pm

It's great for that purpose. The originality of the title conveys that....

re: 20th century biographies and non-fiction

Posted by Novae on 7/13/22 at 3:54 pm

Brilliant dude from a brilliant family. Only other family I can come up with that could match their collective IQ and achievements would be the Penrose family....

re: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Recommendation & Discussion Thread

Posted by Novae on 7/11/22 at 4:56 pm

I second Hail Mary. Really enjoyed it. Also recently finished Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Short read that really sticks with you. Highly recommend....

re: Husband gets paternity test and discovers his daughter isn’t his

Posted by Novae on 7/11/22 at 4:46 pm

I had never heard of this specific situation until last week. An economists dream, two sets of identical twins that were switched and mistaken for fraternal twins until.... [link=(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/magazine/the-mixed-up-brothers-of-bogota.html)]The Mixed Up Brothers of Bogota[/l...