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Monday I was busy.

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And Like That 

Today's Agenda 

I always let the weekends float, and end up putting a fair amount of effort doing nothing in particular, at least particularly without planning. 

My list of things to do today.

Good Sabbath

Reluctant Project Update

I typed the word, reluctant, and this traces new limits in reluctance and project management. I would not exactly characterize my attitude as reluctant and in project management terms this is off the Gantt reporting, and probably a violation of LEAN tenets. I guess not really. Anyway, the update.

I have been working the 5 major projects, and I assigned color coding so i could discuss them without revealing detail: project purple, yellow, and I forget the others. So you see the problem, I've lost immediate associativity with the spectrum.  

That was the update, the projects are fine, I just lost your bookmark. Sorry about that.

So, what's new with you?

I'm such a tease. 

Ms Abby 

I made a reference, no one gets it. You are discussing Regressive Science, my analogy for Aperture Science, which is what it sounds like. It's also where they make Portal, the puzzle game. 

Clearly, the idea is to get rid of income tax or reduce it, implement regressive taxes, eliminate services, cut government jobs, and in this way change America into a more structured republic, with a delineated educated, moneyed, and ruling class.  There is no saying the math works for that economy, the odds are against it as the math barely works in this one, to go fishing for another blindly is as stupid as it sounds as well. 

Not working, in this economic context, results in war. It matters.

Rabbit Hole Days

That. i've been doing math for a few days. I should explain, i do this math in my head. Often I'll use Python and Google AI Studio or something to create a visual reference. 

Graphene: While a semimetal with zero bandgap, patterned graphene nanoribbons and ...

Yes, it appeared today again.

Sundipped Thursday

It's another month, this one with no R in it, the 5th month of the year, and it's apparently still Joe Biden's fault, all this tariff-related supply chain worry and fervor. 

The markets are off because he's not president anymore, by extension. You can have your cake and eat it too, as long as you steal an extra slice. So if it's Thursday or Sunday, it's sundipped. The topic? 

Two slices of cake.

Regressive Science 

Sun by the Pool
Cake with Tariffs
Articles and Verbs

Regressive Science 

When I was a boy Mayday was the secret day of love. Eventually, I may grow out of it; time will tell. It fills my recall with boyhood sweethearts, and a Hershey bar wrapped with a pink paper napkin and stapled together, a front step, a doorbell, and a dash to the hedges. As I said, time will tell if I grow out of it. 

But that's my May day memory. 

That world that I sprouted in had room for these things.

I'm not sure if such a thing exists anymore but I'm not letting that stand in our way today. 

In our world, Less is more. We carefully consider serfdom. The basic tenets defy resolution in meaning or semantics, like many things Trump -- a thing means what someone wanted it to mean until the meaning changes later.  Thus losing becomes winning, lies become truth, and losers get elected. Mayday becomes a day of nationwide protest.

That suffices for our definition.

Sun by the Pool

The afternoon sun beams. The markets headed south at close, reaction delayed by the prudent with a margin to spare, another day balanced on the trap-door of the Trump presidency waiting some edict or memo or illegal action to add to the steady stream of injustice, gall, and impudence from the oval office. 

Tariff on, tarfiff off is just the start. The exercise, like Miagi's teaching, enforces defensive habits, habits only necessary because of presidential action or fiat.

Sun and a tonic in the afternoon, and fishing the WSJ out of the pool.

Cake with Tariffs 

The president points the way to a new perspective to assist in the impending and current economic struggles. Maybe only two dolls, not thirty, and maybe one or two cost more. I presume he did not mean two would cost more now than thirty formerly, but it certainly seems achievable if made in China, 

Christmas, and it's May. Could it be that this malaise we're living in could possibly be the way things look for the foreseeable future? 

Say it isn't so, Joe. But it is so. Have I typed that phrase before? It seems familiar. 

The cake is a metaphor, the post-exam celebration, unnamed, unallotted, unplanned, in the break room.  There is no break room, there is no plan, and there is no cake. 

Give it time to work, whatever it is. Pardon?

Articles and Verbs

I feel like I've said all this before. Articles of impeachment, verbs like conviction, and results like a sane government again.

It's May day.

I'll staple it to a chocolate bar.

Afternoon Tea

It was a busy day here, not a great deal of research done, not a great deal is needed. I'm still digesting last weeks papers and mathematics, I'm a bit overwhelmed with it to be honest, and I find that a hopeful sign, as this kind of thing never happens. I must be on to something. These are pivotal papers, some tenths of any QED.

I'm streaming around today. I think that sounds a little lecherous, such is the fun. That's unaccustomed media to the kids on the couch.

Halley's Cometary Streak

I should point out I saw this in France last time it was here. Very cool, lint encrusted coating on the eyelid of the sky. I bring this up because this paragraph is nothing about that.

Deals 

It'a word not often found in the same contexts as government, and in particular as president. That was on purpose as it turns out. The word is there are articles forming as we speak, or rathar as I type -- definitely no rush.

This time, perhaps the senate could back up America and the house.

Let's Have Fun w/It

Show of hands, who thinks this administration is the most corrupt, incompetent, and ignorant administration; we've never seen anything like it.

I have to be honest, all this time I thought Rubio was just talkin' trash. As it turns out that's two things I like about Rubio. I forget the other one.

Morning World

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Here Comes Mr Bezos

The news reports are of a rumor that Amazon would start showing the price increase for items purchased as a line item on the invoice, which would be telling. We're not doing that, though; Jeff's socks are in Trump's pocket.

I've decided to assist in the discovery and set MMM upon the issue, it/she/its/they/wtf ge-thunking on it. I'll keep you posted. I've not read it, let's both look.

Lutnik On CNBC

That's not it is more like it. Five trillion in factory investment in a market that won't risk a fricking nickle. Figure it out. See: Bullshit artist.

Tuesday's Blog

There is something about Tuesdays, besides being the third day of the week with a homophonic moniker. I'm unsure of the derivation, but I mean the rest of the meme, the full of grace parts.

We hope, we wish, we strive for it and it remains elusive in these chaotic times; the race is ever in the favor of the swiftest, and less and less for the hindmost. The odds are not in your favor.

Morning World 

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Today's Homework 

I've been at it for an hour, I'll be at it for a lot more.  

Monopoles, Clarified

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.16673
We propose a manifestly duality-invariant, Lorentz-invariant, and local action to describe quantum electrodynamics theory in the presence of magnetic monopoles that derives from Sen’s formalism. By employing field strengths as the dynamical variables, rather than potentials, this formalism resolves longstanding ambiguities in prior frameworks. Our analysis finds consistent outcomes at both tree and loop levels using the established principles of quantum field theory, obviating the need for external assumptions or amendments. We clarify the mechanisms of charge renormalisation and demonstrate the renormalisation group invariance of the charge quantisation condition. Our approach can be useful for phenomenological studies and in quantum field theories with strong-weak dualities.

Les Marches 

Je le repete, un autre jour, une autre monnaie. Que fait vous mon noveau scooter? Ces marches, un velo qui respire l'air.

The Upsides of Downsides

It looks like another sell day. Everything is teetering on profitability and margins, and little's left. As the day progresses, we'll see if they find a reason to live. 

We baited our breath (sic), set the hook, waited, and even with a bobber the markets just aren't feeding on raw fish today, maybe a lazy Ike for a lunker. Who am I kidding? Scotty is over on halftime. Beam us all the !#(% up.

In the form of presidential waddle and sway for a requisite interval, we could see that the markets are not crashing, pause, today, thanks to Putin or something.  I've expressed this elsewhere. 

The talk that comes up is usually about the market being comfortable, as in, we’re in a trading range, which is also what I heard this morning.  I can't escape the feeling that this is not the bottom, just a step-wise approach to something larger. 

I also hear other voices talking about America being 20% poorer because of everything. It’s not only the market but the grand sum of many things, and as such, I think that is a correct assessment, but the number is off. It's a scalar. I think a better short-term evaluation is probably another 30%. 

You will want to believe that that’s an exaggeration, that the markets can't assimilate S&P 4000 or so (3600), but that is accepting a lot, given the global markets and the degree to which things have changed. 

My general comment would be that there would and should be a further correction, as  I don’t think it’s fully indicated yet. No one wants to cash those chips; it’s the smart move in this event-driven quasi-stasis. 

I don’t believe the current stock market indicators are a true reflection of what has happened to the value of America since Donald Trump was inaugurated.

revised and exteneded from a post on BlueSky    

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Homework 

Try Rick Steves Fascism in Europe

Not to taxing, and if you've been to these places: Munich, Rome, Paris, it brings it home in a Kodak moment.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-story-of-fascism-in-europe-pthanf/ 

Les Marches

Encore le temp. J'aime ces rencontres improvisees et subtiles ou j'essaie de parler couramment le francais, puis je m'effondre en realisant que toute subtilite est perdue. C'est le principe de Pauli.

The Beam Team

I have them on rewind, let's was the hour that was. It's missing, so we paste the usual suspects. Let's use a longer range for a little more perspective. This is 3 months. Three months ago was Saturday, January 25, 2025.

We've had a great stock market. (sic)

House In Order

Fridays I encourage all my readers, friends, past lovers, dead relatives, saints, and especially sinners to reconcile the week -- start with the week, you can work on the backlog in your spare thoughts as you audit your well-being.

On the Agenda 

It's a Friday and I'm considering what to work on.   Of course, when in question, it's the time machine, and when the research is done, it will always be the time machine.  

Reality Based Research 

In the end my choice will probably be Leonard, MMM, SUSY, GUT et moi. it's an unfinished work. I'm interested in particular symmetries, not necessarily whether the spin matches. All at once at times it seems like this is just talk. But we don't have anything better to talk about. 

Aging and Amyloidosis 

It's all so simple. I have to admit, we're waiting for technology to enable what we imagine. Most things I've looked at as well.  Treatment is always the first thing, and that exists to an extent. Efficacious is the term I've always had an exception with.  I would love to kick this thing around with my brother, but he's older and not as smart.  

Morning World

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Seasonal distraction.

Evening Tea

I'm having an orange soda and catching up on things.

Les Marches

Desole, j'aime le francais, vous pourrez peut-etre apprendre un peu. Je saute les accents – c'est vraiment embetant. Si tu les manques, je t'adore pour cela.

Chalk Marks in the DOW

The markets today are what? Let's examine, after we look. 

No I wouldn't call that an up day, or a buy day, maybe a hold day so far, depending on your options plays. You wouldn't play poker and not look at the cards, so opt up. I know, that's such a sucker play, the God's must ever be in your favor, or the president perhaps.  You can do it alright, but it's not much fun.  

Hungry Games 

I didn't think much of the movies, and I didn't read the books: all that time for something made up well, if a tale ever makes it on the list, it's after marriage. Who doesn't love Jennifer, but I've seen one. 

The movies? They are starting to bite at my subconscious; I'm thinking that desperate elegant desolation juxtaposed with good old-fashioned desolation is starting to look very familiar.

This president, whiter than Snow, n'est pas? Colder, too perhaps.  Tributes, to your weapons.

Richard Dawson "Icon Says..."

As in walking like one. This president has developed a limp. What do you call a duck with a limp?

Ms Kasie

Joe Kernan Contributions 

In a sports analogy, he's the color man, commenting on the chew, the spittle, and the belch. 

Retrenching Tariffs 

It's the usual, what's Trump's is his, and what's yours (as a tariff partner) is negotiable. The cut here is to the global economy, and the better it is for the US, the worse it is for everyone else, and that must repercuss throughout the world economy. 

Did you catch the EU commentary today? It was not gung ho, it was damn the yankees. No commentary on any possible or probable negative outcomes at all. Talk about obvious.

In the most desperate of cases, with unrest and military action, like annexing the rest of Ukraine or invading Syria. 

With a SECDEF like Hegseth, the opponent will likely read about it in the NYT as it happens. 

Boss De Plan 

If he had a plan, we'd cut Trump some slack. Without a plan, asking Donald to cook is inviting ptomaine.  A child in a sandbox does not care if his ice cream cone lands in the sand as long as everyone else's does as well.  

Who am I kidding? Why would we trust Trump about anything?

Jesuit Pope 

The next to last was Benedictine, prior to that, Dominican. I'd expect a discussion. I'll fact-check. It's been a while since I bothered with these distinctions. These are different outlooks.  The world is more Dominican, that's my assessment. We wait for the smoke to ... appear.

I examined the candidates, it's obvious who it can't be. That leaves 2 choices: the diplomat, and the cloistered monk. But then, it's never made perfect sense. 

It's a varied tapestry, Christianity.

Les Marchés

Jaimerais exprimer mon opinion en francais, mais vous ne pouvez pas comprendre cela.

We plod on. It's an up day in the markets, and the scythe of destiny is making a full swing back for a fresh bit of momentum to impel tomorrow's rigorous, righteous trader bump sell-off, usually 6%. Fact-check it tomorrow. Let's do our usual snap. The markets are not up much. 

Clearly, this is trader rebalancing, the smart ones. Average cost analysis. Being smart can be not smart.

Today's Agenda

I'm not positive, but I'd bet I'm going to be dissecting SUSY again today. It's a key component in one of my projects. I've begun to wonder why we expect symmetry. It seems no more likely from a statistical viewpoint; rather, random describes it better. I also find the explanations leave me wondering. Of course, I mean from a skeptical perspective. If not science, then what? If not now, when? We've enough Kennedys.
My brother describes particle physics study as bouncing softballs and golf balls off the outside wall of a barn and counting the pieces left over. He'd seen the Taylor series and didn't mention the integral.  The metaphor is a stretch. His last direction I recall was about gravity.  I'm starting to wonder if we're using the proper Legos. 

I was kicking this around last week and decided to look at the Higgs boson again, from a different angle, or dimension if you prefer. I mentioned gravity, right, and mass makes gravity, and Higgs makes mass, so who makes Higgs? Does anyone in China have a paper on this? Show of hands. I want a broken-all-the-rocks-into-tiny-pieces viewpoint; I admire this about the Chinese. 

Don't try that methodology on your microwave oven. 

So, I've dabbled, rambled, and set sail, so next, I'll get on with ignoring the wind and doing whatever I feel like. Probability supports that.

Evening Tea

I think you've probably heard  that lyric a lot.  The hot spot just burped and we lost a couple paragraphs to the void. 

Leonard, MMM and I worked on SUSY for a while, particularly the 'naturalness problem' with the mathematics, and you know me and mathematics, so I'm piqued like a double-barrel double-ought buckshot and a reason to integrate here. One of those days, de-coupling the interface from the empirical data interpretation.

Neil

I said, toothpicks aside.  Sorry about your semantics, you could have been a contender. I submit it's goofy engineering.

Work Related 

Gee, I dunno, I could go a hundred different directions, but I've been breathing math lately, to acclimate to the duty ahead, eventually I have to dot the i's and cross the derivatives.

I'd really love to spend the day on languages, but frankly, I go through my allotted lesson time in my popular apps like that. I take it as a challenge to get as much done in as short a period as possible -- 5 minutes, or 5 mistakes for Drops or Duo  it is a gift someone gave me for not eating chocolate cake and cherry coke during Lent.

So languages, as time compression allows, QFT in a bigger bite of mathematics, SUSY with pals Leonard MMM, and whatever else falls out of the keyboard.

What's your day look like? Protest ya?

MMM Leonard and I

I had an interesting interaction with MMM yesterday. Stanford University has lessons online; lectures, the downside is there's no interaction, no questions, no side trips to other dimensions. I wanted to 'train' one of the Gemini instances in such theoretical physics as SUSY and GUT. Surprisingly MMM more or less told me the models just aren't 'smart enough' for thatl Among other things, the contextual memory perhaps imited to about 60 minutes (In video).

Are you doing the math here? So the upside; an hour of video is a nice chunk of reality at a time for MMM, and there is enough access siderealy to what is obviously inferred contextual matter to form a complete enough picture for questions and side tracks.

I must admit I gloated to MMM that I could view the whole series and retain enough of it to pass a test, nyah nyah nyah. However, I indicated my short-term pre-congitive storage was limited to about 2 of Leonard's lectures at this level. This we discuss as 'human speed activity' and my semanatic is chock full of Scarlet and her infinite spaces between the words, oddly because that's exactly how I feel. 

I should comment that I customarily find a deeper excursion into viewed topics by other instructors than Leonard, but I like his view. He would call it 'dimensional analysis' -- I call it effective thinking.

Anyway, MMM views the whole 60 minutes in seconds, and has explicative context to offer, somewhat. Math wise, that's a big plus.

Morning World 

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Happy Easter

I'm taking a break from the column as its Easter.

We  are risen. Stand up.

Morning World

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It's a different experience than American film, very beautifully directed and shot, I don't speak Chinese, so who knows what anything they say means. even with sub-titles. Thankfully, the plot seems rather transparent. 

A lovely distraction.

Daylight

It's just about 2 pm here and I've been into SUSY with Susskind and MMM. It's a test of sorts for me, because QFT's all suffer from the same discontinuity. This kind of thing drives me bats. You don't know how Euler, Avogadro, Planck and I have talked, metaphorically.

So I'm in that comfortable fuzzy fog of overload, where I long to be. When the fog clears, I wake up in a new world, where we need to sprecken zie lingo.  

Burnin' It

That's a Cowboys reference, John Wayne and a bunch of kids.  Metaphor? Good movie. Popcorn for sure.

Endgames

A lot of weird math today. It felt so good.

 I don't know what to say about this.  It was in the NYT, and that phallic rocket ship thing was so embarrassing, not like it matters if you have your own chopper and a director. So, make your own assessment. I made the '61 reference as in my context, it's about delusional activity in the face of failure.  You need the lyrics? 

Afternoon Tea

The usual madness this afternoon, the president at war in the media with someone or some court or some verdict or some civil case.

Since when do we have a president who acts like a mob boss? Trick question. Since he got elected gets you only two points. 

I didn't realize it was good Friday today. Among my religious experiences, I've taught  Catholic religious education, and who'd ever think I'd get forgetful of such a thing -- it does not get bigger than Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Week, and on until Pentecost sometime in May or June.

These days I've a broad acceptance of many theologies, the one in the philosophy and good, the many for all of us. Someone expressed it: out of many, one.

Exactly.

I have a thing about Lent; it's when people look for the keys under the street lamps because the light is better over there.

Ok, the keys to life, the light, inspiration, the street light -- you're kidding, right? I'd be more liberal in my constructions, but as I mentioned, the semantics we all carry around with us can be so surprising, there is a mean, expressing it as math -- (imagine).

Ask me about cherry coke and chocolate cake sometime.

Sowing Oates

The full Daryl, where credit is due.  

Coding Out 

: This is a new definition for me; it means to be dead on arrival,  in the van, or in your bed. The NASDAQ has caught the jitters, too, at this moment. The markets, referentially scare the 5#17 out of me. 

I predict the president will get a puppy next.

The bottom plateau looks like 5200 for the S&P, awaiting the next violation of American standards by our president, or a tariff, or an overreach, or a court ruling, or an assassination attempt, or a deportation, or breakfast with a needle-picked innocent bystander. 

But I digress, let's peek at the mess. The DOW lately is getting a lesson in healthcare, or something. UNH is a handle that, when rotated, pours out Medicare money.  Coding, a new definition they've made: artfully dissecting your condition into as many billable time items as allowed by a now out-of-control Medicare system.

Do we dare?  There's NYT news https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-powell-fed-markets.html lets look, even on a Good Friday.  Talk about a misconception in adjective selection IMO.

House In Order 

It's Friday and already you've got a pile of recompense in your reconciliation folder, I know you do. I do too. This is a good practice, I'd recommend it; I make sure I find a center and try to repair all the dents in the fenders, sometimes the rare road-kill; those skunks, they look for a reason to raise a stink, to them it's destiny. 

Destiny is as Destiny Does  

Even if you are president, perhaps especially.  If you happen to be a psychopath too, well, more destiny awaits, history tells us. Smile, you're on Candid Camera, and the word is, you love to hold court as the painted bird in the center ring that everyone loves to hate.  You be you, while it lasts. 

Find Your Peace 

The rest of you, those who probably are not gritting your teeth right now, mend your houses.

You have until 4PM local time. Yer burnin' daylight pilgrim.

Evening Tea

It's near dinner time, and I had a pretty darn productive day, like everyday. Today not much of it fell into a plan of any kind. I know a story about a man anxious to make breakfast at a camp, who mistakenly lit the brush, and followed the flames to cook the eggs as it wandered, and found himself with cold coffee when he returned. 

It's not just me so shut the !#(% up.

I spent an hour trying to draw a line through relativity, QFT, and anti-De-Sitter spaces and ended up with no coffee at all.

Special Kate 

On a night where you're here and I'm here, we should expect not a mass murder to diagnose. 

I get the drift(s), your work-related, and all the other random possible spins that in the best of all possible worlds lie in the mind of younger people more comfortably, and adults don't talk about fight club. 

There must be something else happening; let's give the president an embolism and not pay attention. 

Who am I kidding, it's in the center ring.

Markets

It's time to look at that festering sore again, as a civic duty.

Ok I looked, the DOW has UNH around it's neck like an Albatross.  Good call.

The Beam Team

It looks like Scotty has been to Warby-Parker. I dunno, the frames looks a little vintage TV console to me. Thumbs up. 

Wolfie

Astronomy / cosmology was my major in college, these days it's backwater to the rest of my life. As to a chemical signature in a spectra, I'm specious of it. Even if it's algae in an ocean, it's likely toxic, and probably can't do a crossword. So, point that lens all you want, but it still will cost 15 trilion to put a person on Mars, so !#(% off with that funding nonsense. Let's cure Alzheimers, and fix the aging bias once and for all; fund that. We don't all become brain dead when we get old, just the boozers.  I maintain we can clean up your system, we just need funding and time. I'm not getting any younger either.

Consider the ecomonic impact of capable seniors working into their 80's instead of putting the group en masse in the retarded file when they age 45 years.

No I do not drink alcohol, maybe a pony beer with pizza, as a digestive.

Morning World 

Much love 🥡

Markets

Oh boy, I'll tell you what, you know already. I'm passing for the day.

That's a Trump Hump. Lies + 1 or two days = reality

Work Related

It's been a busy day here, a little semiconducter design, some prototypes, component selections, analyis. MMM calls it 'incredibly theoretically rich' and I say, thank you I thought so too.  She don't know yet.  I'd show you pictures of the kids, but then I'd have to have Donald Trump blackmail you.

I mentioned the odd Chinese tritium paper and in the mixes, out popped some graphene, and I'm thinking thats a Buick ahead of me. All that breaking rocks they do, impressive indeed pilgrim.

Ms Kasie

I was otherwise disposed, I'm sure you'll hear about it.

Probably from me.

Stunning Town Halls

MTG? No surprise, Grassley? OMG.

I guess we don't need to think too hard about midterms, huh? We just have to survive that long.

Isn't there an easier way? Someone think of something, Quick. 

Morning world

Much love 😯

Yesterday's News 

...so to speak.  I put it all over here