2024-01-15 17:25
The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are a revolutionary technology: messenger RNA (mRNA). Typically, mRNA is created from DNA in the nuclei of our cells, the mRNA then exits t… Read More
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The thoughts of Nicholas Dwork on Government, Politics, Technology, Education, and Philosophy. See more at www.nicholasdwork.com.
2023-06-20 15:31
In the last 10 years, socialism has become far more popular in the United States. Here, I’m going to list some quotes regarding socialism by some contemporary politicians. See if you… Read More
2023-04-06 19:18
I may be creating a podcast (which means I’ve created one video, and may be creating more, but I cannot commit to such an endeavor right now). The podcast (meaning my first video) sho… Read More
2022-10-31 19:40
There’s a moment when you jump on a springboard and you’re at the bottom of the bounce. All of your work has been transferred into the springs and you’re about to be launch… Read More
2022-09-09 16:56
The CDC is currently claiming that it must rebuild trust with the public. But even now, the CDC is advocating for the Covid-19 vaccine with claims about its safety that contradict current ev… Read More
2022-08-21 03:50
We’ve been experiencing stagflation for quite a while: reduced employment with increasing prices. This has been hidden by the long lag between monetary policy decisions and… Read More
2022-08-16 18:01
The Supreme Court acts as a check on the powers of the legislative (congress) and executive (president) branches of the United States. If a Federal law is unconstitutional, a citizen can fi… Read More
2022-08-12 16:58
The government of the United States was created to be very similar to that of the United Kingdom. Whereas the UK has the House of Lords and the House of Commons, the US has the senate and t… Read More
2022-08-11 16:03
This week, 21 Democrat and 0 Republican state senators voted to open drug sites for illegal drug use in three major cities of California: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Oakland. This was… Read More
2022-07-22 19:24
A natural experiment is one where a control group and an experimental group arise naturally without intervention by an experimenter. The use of a natural experiment was reinvigorated by the… Read More
2022-07-07 15:22
I wrote an opinion piece that was published in The Colorado Sun, a state-wide newspaper. My intended title was “The Fed’s Reduced Influence on Inflation”. However, the ed… Read More
2022-06-20 15:33
Employers around the country are still requiring Covid-19 vaccines and regular boosters. The Biden administration has required that almost all federal contractors be vaccinated; and while t… Read More
2021-11-25 15:57
Control systems are ubiquitous in engineering. For this article, we’ll accept the word system as having an intuitive definition. They’re complicated machines that do something… Read More
2021-09-08 00:52
Setting Up Servez
Developing with WebGL and Three.js requires more than just copies of the relevant javascript files copied locally. It requires a web server. This tutorial wi… Read More
2021-05-08 17:53
A reader posed a question to me recently. The answer was rather involved. I put the question and the answer here.
Question: Nano seems much better than bitcoin at being a good currency… Read More
2021-03-17 16:54
2021-03-08 19:31
My high school experience was largely a waste of time. Here was my standard history class. We would enter the classroom and the teacher would spend five minutes taking role (accounting for… Read More
2021-03-01 19:04
In 2016 and 2017, ISIS took control of much of Syria. In those cities where it ruled, children were not permitted to learn mathematics and science [1,2]. That, of course, was terrible for… Read More
2021-02-22 19:30
Imagine it’s a typical day. You sent your child off to elementary school with their books and lunch pail, you pick them up on your way home from work, and on the way home you ask the… Read More
2021-02-11 19:52
Solving Wahba’s problem is useful for determining the attitude of spacecraft. In “An Analytic Solution to Wahba’s Problem”, Yang and Zhou show that analytically solv… Read More
2020-12-09 18:16
I love country music. Here are some lyrics from some of my favorite songs.
“Songs About Me” by Trace Adkins:
I met a guy on the red eyeHe spotted my guitarAnd said what do… Read More
2020-10-30 20:03
In this interview, California Assembly candidate Dr. Melanie Burkholder and I discuss homelessness, taxes, the lockdown, and her experience as a secret service agent Read More
2020-08-17 17:04
In this interview, California assembly candidate Charles Cole and I discuss the Constitution, Gavin Newsom’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, assemblyman Rob Bonta’s proposed w… Read More
2020-08-07 15:25
I have added a Radeon Pro W5700X MPX Module to the Mac Pro. In this post, I will show you how I did so.
Disconnect all the cables from the Mac Pro’s tower and take off the tower co… Read More
2020-08-05 15:10
In this interview, Dr. Paula Bates discusses her invention: molecule AS1411. The molecule acts as an aptamer with nucleolin, which then permits it to preferentially kill cancer cells. In a… Read More
2020-07-30 19:25
Foreword: a former student has created a blog and published his own thoughts on the potential of a third party. I encourage you to read his post here: https://theinquisitivesamurai.org/202… Read More
2020-07-27 15:44
Dr. Anna Urciuolo discusses her recently published technique to 3D print biomaterials in vivo. In some cases, she is able to do so without even breaking the skin. You can see the paper of… Read More
2020-07-24 20:44
In this blog, I will discuss the government policies and the individual actions we could take in order to maximize the total number of lives saved from Covid-19 (the novel coronavirus). Not… Read More
2020-07-13 16:26
In this interview, Dan Zaidan describes his journey becoming a programmer, game maker, and businessman.
Rogue Summoner: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355510/Rogue_Summone… Read More
2020-07-08 16:17
While driving, my father would continuously listen to KNX 1070 News Radio. Through the conversations that the segments sparked, I learned more about politics, government, and economics than… Read More
2020-07-07 14:03
I had the opportunity to interview a father of three adopted children. Here it is.
You and your wife have adopted three children. How did the process differ for each child?
The… Read More
2020-06-29 13:23
In this video, I had the pleasure of speaking with Scott Keene of Stanford University who invented an organic computer chip that interfaces with brain cells chemically, similar to an actual… Read More
2020-06-22 13:35
In this video, I interview the philosopher Dr. Michael Huemer. We discuss his book entitled Approaching Infinity, the history of infinity, which concepts of the infinite are possible, and (… Read More
2020-06-16 12:46
In this video, I interview Libertarian presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen! We discuss forced labor in China, corporate pollution, and healthcare.
You can learn about Dr. Jorgensen at… Read More
2020-06-13 18:00
During the Gulf War, the first war with Iraq, Iraq invaded Kuwait in an effort to acquire its oil resources. Kuwait, a wealthy ally of the United States, requested assistance, and George H… Read More
2020-06-12 15:20
I’m starting a series of videos where I interview people that I find interesting. Here’s the first one! I interview Dr. Gennifer Smith, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford, who… Read More
2020-06-04 18:53
This week, my pregnant wife and I visited Carmel beach to enjoy the sand and sunshine. During our time there, we stayed far more than 6 feet away from anyone else. Shortly after our arriva… Read More
2020-05-23 19:12
During this pandemic, Gov. Newsom of California has been ruling the state by executive decree (under highly questionable Constitutional authority) [0,0.1]. And he has been on a spending spr… Read More
2020-05-03 02:01
Dear Governor Newsom,
I received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and I am now a postdoctoral scholar at UCSF. Several of my works have been published in p… Read More
2020-04-23 20:13
Here is an opinion piece that I penned and was published in the Santa Clarita Gazette: https://santaclaritafree.com/gazette/opinion/we-have-rights Read More
2020-04-20 22:15
Covid-19 has halted economies around the world. In response, the federal government has instituted extreme fiscal and monetary policy measures. The char below shows M2 and M1 money supplie… Read More
2020-04-06 22:58
During the Revolutionary War, the American military had a significant disadvantage: it did not have a Navy. Its solution was to commission privateers. Private seamen would take their vesse… Read More
2020-03-23 04:08
2020-03-22 01:07
The graph below shows how the number of Covid-19 cases in the US have increased over time [0]:
Excluding the region of graph that is affected by the long incubation period of Covid-19, we… Read More
2020-03-17 06:37
My first vlog! Read More
2020-03-16 16:37
This article discusses the state of our nation with respect to the Covid-19 virus, what our government is doing, and what they could be doing.
When people are talking about “Flatten… Read More
2020-03-15 16:17
Given an overdetermined linear system , one can determine the estimate of that minimizes the L2 norm of the error using the pseudo-inverse: , where is the pseudo-inverse of . A comp… Read More
2020-03-08 19:01
The media has reported that the director of the World Health Organization estimated the mortality rate of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) to be approximately 3.4% [1]. But let’s… Read More
2020-02-09 20:10
The advice to “Make your Bed” has recently been extolled by Admiral William H. McRaven and the controversial Dr. Jordan Peterson. This singular piece of advice has been her… Read More
2020-01-15 00:21
I have been working on a signal processing application using C in MacOS. (I’m using straight C, not C++.) My target application is a Mac desktop computer with an Intel proc… Read More
2019-12-30 17:44
“I didn’t know that I couldn’t do it, so I did it.” -Robert Kiyosaki
Inertia is powerful. It’s extremely useful; it keeps things moving along well… Read More
2019-11-13 23:21
This is a simple and beautiful relationship. I couldn’t find it easily online, so I thought I would share it in this blog post. In this discussion, represents conjugate tr… Read More
2019-11-04 22:45
There are five main components to the economy: money, purchasing power, wealth, production, and psychology. In this article, I will discuss how each of these relate (and provide exampl… Read More
2019-10-13 15:57
I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (who also wrote I Am The Messenger, which I wrote about previously). The story is gorgeous. It was the language of the book, t… Read More
2019-09-15 22:57
Stagflation is increasing unemployment and increasing inflation. The problem with stagflation is that the Fed can only address one (inflation or unemployment) by aggravating the other… Read More
2019-09-08 18:35
In the early 2000s, a guy made a meme with two pictures and two accompanying statements that I thought was funny. The first said, “What I used to want in a car stereo.” The secon… Read More
2019-08-18 19:35
“When we construct stories, we can lose the ability to think about the evidence critically.” -Nate Silver in The Signal and the Noise
“The brick walls are there to gi… Read More
2019-08-11 17:55
My grandfather left his formal education early in life. And yet, he taught me more about mechanics and electricity than any other person. I am now formally educated as an electri… Read More
2019-07-26 23:13
Imagine what an ocean wave (a transverse wave) would look like if there wasn’t any water . Consider what a sound wave (a longitudinal wave) would be if we didn’t have air [… Read More
2019-07-01 03:45
This weekend, I worked on my brother’s home/office. The procedure was a bit complicated, so I’m putting it here as notes to myself and for anyone else who may find this pag… Read More
2019-06-11 16:27
“They reason theoretically without demonstrating experimentally and errors are the result.” – Michael Faraday
“Folks is too old and too sick to take care of the… Read More
2019-05-22 18:05
I recently made one of my best purchases. I’ve been listening to Dragnet, the old time radio show which ran from 1949 to 1957 and consists of dramatizations of pol… Read More
2019-05-06 17:49
The Federal Reserve (Fed) sets interest rates largely based on two metrics: observed inflation rate and unemployment rate. The basic idea behind the Fed’s actions is encapsulated… Read More
2019-04-18 20:09
I penned an opinion-editorial regarding the congresswoman of my home town, Katie Hill: https://santaclaritafree.com/gazette/opinion/katie-hill-demonstrates-prejudice-and-hypocrisy Read More
2019-04-08 17:33
Following the death of Alan Krueger, Bill Clinton recently wrote the following statement on twitter.com:
Alan Krueger was a brilliant economist for the public interest—from his resea… Read More
2019-04-06 18:57
In “A Hierarchy of Diseases“, I discussed various classes of diseases and the some of the challenges that each class poses as we attempt to develop cures. In this article… Read More
2019-03-26 03:35
Ariana Grande, 25 year old singer of the recent popular song ‘7 Rings’, wanted to celebrate her success with a permanent trophy: she got a tattoo on her hand which read ‘7… Read More
2019-03-20 17:48
Taxing the Rich
Federal income tax was first implemented in 1862, a temporary measure to pay for the costs of the Civil War [1]. It was a marginal tax rate that peaked at 5 percent of… Read More
2019-02-28 21:58
I found something recently that I thought was pretty neat.
Let “true” be represented by a 1 and “false” be represented by a 0. Consider two logical claims A and… Read More
2019-02-26 15:20
People like money, they like getting more money, and they like keeping the money they get. This fundamental fact explains much of the behavior in our economy, and drives the Law of Sup… Read More
2019-02-20 16:34
Our government is currently indebted $22 trillion (not counting unfunded liabilities, which increases the debt to $122 trillion) [1]. But how does this debt manifest itself in terms of… Read More
2019-02-11 17:11
Whenever I suggest that the size of our government is too large, I receive the statement, “But, what about the roads?” This happened when I asked Barbara Boxer why it was a… Read More
2019-01-01 22:41
Prologue: I’ve been giving more up to date thoughts on twitter. If you’re interested, you can follow me here: https://twitter.com/ndwork.
It’s been a tough thre… Read More
2018-11-18 22:43
On 4/2/2018, I predicted that the economy was starting another recession and that stock prices would drop dramatically. With my own savings, I took almost all of my money out of the st… Read More
2018-06-07 03:31
Dear Supporters,
I’m afraid that I will be taking down the blog for a while. I’ve become overwhelmed with my own responsibilities and will be taking a break.
I hope to come… Read More
2018-06-05 17:06
In this article, I will present different disease types and order them from external to internal. We will see that our approaches to each disease differ through these categories. … Read More
2018-05-29 01:56
By definition, the probability of event A given event B is
And so we can play the following game:
(This just means that the probability of A and B is the same as the probability of B… Read More
2018-05-24 17:04
Russia gave us (what should have been) a gift. They wasted their money on unsubstantiated propaganda. What more could a nation hope for than having a most significant possible military… Read More
2018-05-20 03:13
Semi-annually, the Aurea Foundation holds debates on pertinent topics. On 05/18/2018, these Munk debates focused on political correctness [1]. Professor Michael Eric Dyson (of Ge… Read More
2018-05-18 14:34
The amount that we pay in taxes is hidden from us by dividing it into various streams; we pay income taxes, sales tax, employment tax, social security tax, snack tax, sin tax, and special ta… Read More
2018-05-13 00:12
2018-04-02 13:17
In 2011, the Gainesville Tea Party removed 8 zeros from the federal budget to give people a more intuitive understanding of our government’s finances [1]. In that year, our gover… Read More
2018-03-29 18:49
There are things that our elected officials have relatively little leverage to control. For example, a senator has little control of abortion. The primary control of abortion res… Read More
2018-03-16 23:27
After the Parkland shooting in Florida, people have taken to the streets to demand significantly increased gun control. In a town hall held by senator Marco Rubio, the audience applaud… Read More
2018-02-18 21:05
I’ll start from the very beginning with some stuff that I think I know. Feel free to disagree with anything. Please be sure to look stuff up before you commit any money.&nb&hell…Read More
2018-01-26 20:47
When a rape is committed, a forensic examination (known as a “rape kit”) can be performed. It is performed by a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) nurse. The process… Read More
2018-01-17 19:27
Suppose there were two Americas, one a perfect replica of the other. In each America there existed the same resources: the same terrain, the same people, the same laws, etc. The… Read More
2017-12-27 20:40
The Fifth Amendment of the constitution says that “… nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Another way to state this is tha… Read More
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