Cotton & Calculus

thoughts and interests of a college freshman with an affinity for engineering, industrial design, and a love of life below the Mason-Dixon
cjchivers: Service. Whatever you think of President Obama, or of the American presidency itself, on many levels this is a strange use of a U.S. Marine. To be clear: Presented with photographs showing a long and robust precedent, and establishing that many Presidents have enjoyed this same and particular service, I’d wager that most past and present grunts would say the same thing.  ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH By Doug Mills. The New York Times. Today, accompanying this.

cjchivers:

Service.

Whatever you think of President Obama, or of the American presidency itself, on many levels this is a strange use of a U.S. Marine.

To be clear: Presented with photographs showing a long and robust precedent, and establishing that many Presidents have enjoyed this same and particular service, I’d wager that most past and present grunts would say the same thing. 

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH

By Doug Mills. The New York Times. Today, accompanying this.

cjchivers: From the tractor works in Minsk, this old Soviet beast has made life much easier this spring, and helped us expand the plantings. Dan calls her the AK-47 of farm machines and points to the utilitarian streak in her design (30-weight motor oil serves as her hydraulic fluid; the oil filter need only be cleaned, not replaced, etc) that would make her a labor-multiplying machine under circumstances in which a fussier tractor might fail. That may be so. But she’s a hell of a lot harder to master than a Kalashnikov. Believe me, because I’m trying. 

cjchivers:

From the tractor works in Minsk, this old Soviet beast has made life much easier this spring, and helped us expand the plantings. Dan calls her the AK-47 of farm machines and points to the utilitarian streak in her design (30-weight motor oil serves as her hydraulic fluid; the oil filter need only be cleaned, not replaced, etc) that would make her a labor-multiplying machine under circumstances in which a fussier tractor might fail. That may be so. But she’s a hell of a lot harder to master than a Kalashnikov. Believe me, because I’m trying. 

physicsphysics:

hydrogeneportfolio:

Minimal Posters -  Five Great Mathematicians And Their Contributions.

Y’know, math is really just a less fun kind of physics…

I kid, each discipline has its own pro’s and con’s - but to not respect the relationship between mathematics and physics is the same as to not understand either.

China was involved in 96% of all espionage data-breach incidents, most often targeting manufacturing, professional and transportation industries. The assets China targeted within those industries included laptop/desktop, file server, mail server and directory server, in order to steal credentials, internal organization data, trade secrets and system info. A whopping 95% of the attacks started with phishing to get a toehold into their victim’s systems. The report states that, “Phishing techniques have become much more sophisticated, often targeting specific individuals (spear phishing) and using tactics that are harder for IT to control. For example, now that people are suspicious of email, phishers are using phone calls and social networking.