Banking
Book: Philip Dru: Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935
Edward Mandell house was from Texas and was a kingmaker and back in the early part of the 20th century. He picked men that were corrupt controllable and would propel them into the governorship and Texas senate statehouse and US Senate. He was Read more…
Airlines
Use AA American Advantage eShopping Portal Directed to Home Depot Website to Maintain AA Airline Miles
I was notified by email that my American Airline Advantage miles were expiring. This is because AA has had very high round trip ticket prices to Brazil. Research Links Easiest Ways To Stop American Miles From Expiring Without Flying Contact Read more…
Math
Lune Of Hippocrates – Famous Ancient Math Problem
Hippocrates of Chios solved this, nearly 100 years before Euclid even wrote The Elements, and before we knew the exact formula for the area of a circle. This is said to be the first precise mathematical of the area between Read more…
Bonds
Understanding Charles Schwab Treasury Bond Corporate Bond Municiple Bond Yields in Their Website Search Results
Research Links Google: are capital gains on treasury bond taxable How government bonds are taxed Notes: Income from bonds issued by the federal government and its agencies, including Treasury securities, is generally exempt from state and local taxes. Income from Read more…
Architecture
Siding Solutions
Research Links GoogleImageSearch: steel siding panels BridgeSteel – Steel siding
Math
Visualizing the Riemann zeta function and analytic continuation
This function is famously confusing outside its "domain of convergence", but a certain visualization sheds light on how it extends. Research Links Wikipedia: Proof of the Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function PDF: Zeros of the Riemann Read more…
Computing
DefCon 22: Hack All The Things: 20 Devices in 45 Minutes
This video demonstrates getting root access with UART port on many different types of devices that are running embedded Linux.
History
Freeman Dyson – Web of Stories – Life Stories of Remarkable People
American-British physicist and mathematician, Freeman Dyson, was born in 1923. He is known for his achievements in solid state physics, nuclear engineering and quantum field theory. Interview PlayList 157 videos Research Links Cours d'analyse de l'EĢcole polytechnique An Elementary Treatise Read more…