Re: "NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as odds of hitting Earth go up"

Paul S Person wrote:

On 13 Feb 2025 00:25:58 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
 

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:38:13 +0100, "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

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You forgot about the American AI.

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That's old hat. Chinese AI has rendered it ... superfluous.

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Hitler destroyed his nuclear bomb program because he didn't believe in
"Jewish Science."  The thing is, science isn't Jewish or Aryan, it is
just science.

 I suspect it had a lot more to do with limited resources, better spent
on more tanks. But racism did affect the war, on both sides.

When I was taking complex analysis we came to the study of elliptic functions.  There are two mathematically equivalent formulations of these, the Weierstrass and the Jacobi.
According to our prof, the Weierstrass formulation easily lends itself to the formulation of proofs about elliptic functions, but is very difficult to apply in practice.   The Jacobi function has the opposite nature (naturally we used the Weierstrass formulation).
He went on to say that in WWII German scientists and engineers, particularly on the atomic weapons project, were ordered to use the "Aryan" Weierstrass formulation rather than the "Jewish" Jacobi.
This, he said, slowed work down considerably and would have brought some areas to a stop except that some people secretly did their work with the Jacobi formulation, only translating the final product into the Weierstrass functional form.
William Hyde