Status: RETIRED HERO He grew up in a poor and unstable family in rural Virginia. Naturally right-handed, Billy Wagner learned to pitch left-handed after breaking his right arm twice as a kid. He concluded a 16-year MLB career with seven All-Star nods, 422 saves, and the highest strikeouts per 9 innings ratio of all-time (for […]
Computing Power of the Masses
The universe is a massive, perhaps infinite, expanse and our entire galaxy is but a speck in a void sprinkled with thousands of galaxies. Even if you only consider our own galaxy, the Milky Way, our solar system is just one in an estimated 100,000,000,000 other solar systems in the galaxy. There are probably over […]
Jimmy Key
Status: RETIRED HERO As one of the greatest control pitchers of his time, Jimmy Key pitched in four All-Star Games, won two World Series rings, and was runner-up for two Cy Young Awards. He was a consistently great pitcher throughout his career, but also injury-prone. He never received serious consideration for the Hall of Fame, […]
The 80/20 of Languages
If you’re reading this blog post, there’s a good chance that you’re living in a predominantly English-speaking country (I’d say, an 80%+ chance). According to Wikipedia, the Pareto principle states that “for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes (the “vital few”).” That is to say, for most things you encounter […]
How to Get Bitcoins
To get your own bitcoins, you can mine for them, accept them as payment, or buy them on bitcoin exchanges. Bitcoin is a virtual currency which is both created and held digitally.
Multimedia eBooks
Judging from the information at ebooks.com, somewhere between 15% and 40% of all book sales are digital ebooks. We are clearly trending in the direction of fewer physical books and more digital ebooks. People are slowly changing their habits towards digital reading. Given the trend toward digital ebooks and the technological capabilities they make possible, […]