Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed

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• Turbulence Optimism
• Four Parameters and an Elephant
• Twitter Digest: 2011-09-12

Turbulence Optimism Posted: 13 Sep 2011 12:48 PM PDT "It was at a meeting of the British Association in London in 1932 thatI remember that [Horace] Lamb remarked 'I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am really rather optimistic." - S. Goldstein, Fluid mechanics in the first half of this century, Annual Rev. Fluid Mech., 1, 1–29 (1969) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Four Parameters and an Elephant Posted: 13 Sep 2011 12:43 PM PDT With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in “A meeting with Enrico Fermi” in Nature 427 22 January 2004 p. 297 via John von Neumann – Wikiquote.

Twitter Digest: 2011-09-12 Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT "Cheesy good girl / Crazy about elvish / Loves horses and Bombadil too" #todayinlotrmondegreens -> My Kauffman colleague Dane Stangler on creating a "producer society" – http://t.co/LkpIqdW -> This US Open final is like a cross between the best tennis match ever and a video game. Unbelievable. -> NEJM on the antibiotic miracle, or why being a germ isn't easy. http://t.co/vPzTRCF /via @DrVes -> Will someone please explain to me why the US Open crowd is so over-fond of Nadal over Djokovic? I just don't get it. ->

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