Golden Milk

My dieting routine is a small lunch and dinner with minimal between meal snacking and a drink in the afternoon. This leaves me quite hungry and uncomfortable in the morning, so I started drinking "golden milk" as follows:

Warm 1 mug if milk in saucepan. Add:

1/2 tsp turmeric

1 tsp ginger

pinch of cinnamon (easy does it)

pinch of black pepper (easy does it)

Wisk contents and bring up to a simmer. When it becomes fragrant like a cow, say around 4 min. of heating, remove from heat and add 1 tsp of honey.

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While waiting for the milk, I take a heaping 1/2 tsp of fenugreek, add a drop of honey, and stir it into about 3 tbs of yogurt. Properly mixed, it is good and I eat it before drinking the milk.

This is a yummy and satisfying breakfast. Milk and honey have low glycemic indices. Fenugreek allows the body to absorb the turmeric.

Face on a Devil's Foot Rock

I thought I already posted this, but I could not find it, so I am posting now. The face apparent in the foreground rock is, I feel, too deliberate to ignore. Rather, it is an important clue as to all the different things that went on, on this island in Woods Hole harbor.

Example of orienting in a non-geometric context

Rather than going someplace interesting on the internet directly, it can be easier to start with my email, browse past the news, and then get going someplace interesting.

A different "razor"

You know about Occam's Razor. Here is another such principle:

If you have a hypothesis that does not explain significant and interesting details, then the hypothesis must be wrong.

I apply this to the current situation with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. That a lone shooter named Tyler Robinson took it into his own head to do the shooting is a hypothesis that does not explain things like: why the FBI drone surveillance was turned off at the precise time the shooter used his drone. Or why the Israelis were searching on "Tyler Robinson" and the name of the judge presiding at his trial the week before. Or the failure of coordination with local police. Or the strange stuff about the bullet and about his chief of staff.

It follows that the "sole shooter" hypothesis must be wrong.

Modular Government

[This is an abstract thought, hardly a recommendation.]

Since governments tend to become corrupt, the simplest suggestion is to keep government small, to minimize the opportunities for corruption and inefficiency. However, this should not mean minimizing the variety of services a government supplies. 

Is there any reason the people who run the military should be the same as the ones regulating foods and drugs? So, a different idea is to break up government functions. You could have different governments for different functions.

Halloween Pumpkin 2025

AI turns one of my math papers into a comic

I don't know how they did this but it attempts to characterize my paper "Determining an Analytic Function from its Distribution of values". It almost gets it right.