As a high school math teacher, I have absolutely no training in thinking about the spread of infectious diseases like the coronavirus. However, looking at numbers is what I do on an everyday basis, both professionally as a math teacher as well as with money in my personal life. Unfortunately, the numbers are telling me that the coronavirus is going to get pretty bad.
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Artificial Intelligence and The Singularity: Why You May Live Forever
One of the things that should be the most precious to us is time. Even billionaire investor, Warren Buffett, knows this: "It's the only thing you can't buy. I mean, I can buy anything I want basically but I can't buy time." As everyone knows, we only get a certain number of years on this Earth. 78 is the average, or 90 if we get lucky. No matter what, time is the only non-renewable resource that exists. Or is it . . . ? Some people believe that medical and technological advances will eventually lead us to a point where people can live drastically longer lives. 100 years might become…
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Elon Musk and SpaceX: An Ambitious Goal
When we were at a family party a few weeks ago, my wife brought up the following question: “Who would you have dinner with if you could have dinner with anyone in the world?” After clarifying the rules of the dinner (no family members, no dead people), we started by listing some of the usual suspects: Barack Obama, J.K. Rowling, Lionel Messi, Oprah, George W. Bush. We all agreed that it would be interesting to have dinner with people who are famous as well as former presidents, no matter what our political affiliations are. We also thought of some people who were not quite as well known, but were famous…
