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Bob Egan has written a nice post about the location of jazz clubs in NYC. I’m posting here in case his server quits for posterity. It is amazing how these clubs were really organically the first floors of homes, a few chairs, all beside one another. #history
https://www.popspotsnyc.com/jazz_clubs/
Locations of Jazz Clubs in New York City Greenwich Village
Locations of Jazz Clubs in New York City 52nd Street
Locations of Jazz Clubs in New York City Harlem
Locations of Jazz Clubs in New York City Greenwich Village
Had never realized this until thinking it through now, but the beautiful yield and inverted yield curve in finance that we all know and love can be considered the same as the forward contracts concept of contango and backwardation. A yield curve that is inverted is identical to an asset in backwardation – we just call them by different names.
…and feels like where we sat at the beginning of smart phone revolution when the iPhone 1-3 were released between 2007-2009. Just the start.
Extremely excited for VR, which I believe is the next logical ‘screen’ to arrive at after the supersized OLED phase we are in now.
WebXR (which streams immersive experiences) / 360 videos / and the social connections enabled by things such as the Echo Zero G app and others like it illustrate what a virtual environment is capable of doing, allowing multiple users to play and chat with one another in an immersive environment.
The most important thing in my opinion are:
I see most of these happening now with the Quest 2 release (appears the Quest 3 is under discussion for release this year) and am extremely enthusiastic about the platform.
Posting some of my other work / experiments in watch design… This is more of a study to learn about the curvature of lugs, bevels etc. Less a work than the learning the process right now.
If you were to study gravity, you’d want nearly a perfect Zero-G enviroment and then introduce 2 spheres. It would give the ideal experimental result by removing all other noisy variables that you’d find in the real world.
Enter the Lemon…
If one were to think about how multiple items are produced and purchased. I suggest that the 3 citrus fruits Oranges / Lemons / Limes offer a nearly perfect study.
Just a thought but wanted to suggest… Citrus fruits to study substitution effects for producers based on demand.
**it also appears that many other fruits can be grafted onto a tree (up to 40 types from some articles) so interesting to consider**
One concept that I’m pondering is the act of bringing people along… in the same referential frame. An unfinished idea currently..
In my mind’s eye, I see sort of a drivable bus on a rollercoaster type image.
On the bus, what the driver sees is for argument’s sake, exactly what the passenger can see. You are all aboard the same vessel, sharing the same frame of reference and there is no 3rd camera or drone to provide another reference point.
… In such a setting it is possible for someone, the artist let’s say, but not just exclusively artist-types, to drive the bus in such a path as to illuminate the nature of the greater system.
That lightbulbs will hopefully go off in people’s heads if the bus is driven in a certain pattern. That I see as something worth trying to do. There is a higher order message there.
Subversive fire lighting…
Alwin:
Just finished reading the the book 4% universe by Richard Panek, and would recommend to anyone interested in a casual history about Dark Matter.
To anyone who is knowledgable the reasoning, behind why dark matter is not just (matter between the seat cushions ie. dust and gas between stars etc), would love to hear more about this.
Personal thoughts on possible causes:
Sketched a quick idea based on the idea of the classic model 500 telephone, (on a watch). Here it is.
posted this question on Quora:
Hello Astrophysicists, a very specific question for you.
It seems that the Reimannian ‘rubber sheet’ model of spacetime is useful in describing phenomena that we observe. Some examples below.
My question is, what other exotic geometries may arise and are allowed by the fabric.
For eg. I can see a ‘polyp’ or scrunched ball geometry similar to a sock wrapped in a bedsheet during the wash, that would be inaccesible by most other points on the sheet, but still made from the same ‘sheet’.
This would be essentially a untouchable region made from the same fabric of space time.
Is this possible and has this been theorized? Curious to hear more.
Thank you