Jerry Yoakum

Moderate consumption of beer is linked with improved social interaction. People who drink beer in local pubs engage in conversation which boosts their social well-being. Strong social networks are the primary buffers against physical and mental illnesses. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Will Durant

Pauli Murray - Draw Larger Circles

Have the ads on #goodreads gotten bigger?

It's a great time to hit the lake this week! Check out these lakes around Springfield and the Ozarks. Which one is your favorite? Leave a comment below! l8r.it/xTt0

I wonder if 7 is a default value or if the developer isn't familiar with US SSNs.

The #kcdc2022 Agenda is LIVE now. Do remember that we are still slotting a handful more talks over the coming 53 days (but who's counting?) and minor changes may occur. Rooms & times are now also listed with individual sessions on our sessions page. kcdc.info/agenda

Astronomer Hotline xkcd.com/2633/ m.xkcd.com/2633/

I'm reading about the Victoria Hall Tragedy in Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World. In case you wonder why public venues require that exit doors must open outwards: ancient-origins.net/history-ancien…

200 years ago on this day, Charles Babbage, a founding visionary of modern computing, submitted a one-page paper on his invention, the Difference Engine. Containing 25,000 distinct parts, the machine is the world's first mechanical computer. 🔗: bit.ly/3xPDKQy

So funny. youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWGj…

For reference there are ~750 billionaires in the USA, around ~50k people with $100m+ net worth, but mostly it's the same as it ever was youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQn… .. and since that amazing video was produced, things have gotten.. a lot worse. 😬

I had an excellent conversation with a fellow software architect this morning. An hour of what it means to provide direction on a project without dictating implementation, creating architectures that can change over time, and how to quickly earn and keep trust.

The traveling salesperson problem seeks the shortest or least expensive round trip through a collection of cities. Researchers recently improved upon a decades-old algorithm for approximating its solutions, ending a theoretical and psychological logjam. quantamagazine.org/computer-scien…

It would be nice to know how some of the @CodeSignalCom statistics are calculated. Take this image for example. Have 4% of all users of the site solved the problem? Or, have 4% of users who have attempted the problem been able to solve it? I bet it is the former.

Casablanca will be hitting the big screen on June 8th at 3:00 PM! Join us at the Historic Gillioz Theatre for our first movie in our midweek matinee series presented by Senior Age and Medicare Plus. Get your tickets TODAY at etix.com/ticket/p/29566…