Quote of the Day: the tragedy of being second

And the reason for Purdue [offering a masters program on semiconductors in 1960] is most people don’t know that the transistor effect was found at Crane Naval Air Development Center three weeks after Shockley. And it’s the tragedy of being second.

https://silicongenesis.stanford.edu/transcripts/kvamme.htm

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В сети попадаются удивительные персонажи. Mы ломаем головы, как преуспеть в этой жизни, а специалист по инновациям уже знает, что надо просто включить читатель чужих идей:

Причём с новыми технологиями теперь даже не обязательно активное участие поциента, приглашать его ещё куда-то, деньги тратить на конкурсы всякие. Да и всякие жучки-букашки-микрофоны в квартире это тоже уже прошлый век. И даже девайсы прослушивать не надо. Включили за стенкой ЭМ-энцефалограф, и все его идеи, как в открытой книжке.

http://rasta.dreamwidth.org/37923.html

Схемы ЭМ-энцефалографа и режимы его работы, к сожалению, не прилагаются.

A perfect loan to default on

Unlike Covfefe, Putin knows finances of the people involved in the campaign to make Covfefe the president of the US.

One of the Manafort-related debts listed in the Cyprus records, totaling $7.8 million, was owed to Oguster Management Limited, a company in the British Virgin Islands connected to Mr. Deripaska. The debtor was a Cyprus company, LOAV Advisers, that the Deripaska court complaint says was set up by Mr. Manafort to make investments with Mr. Deripaska, a billionaire close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The loan is unsecured, bears 2 percent interest and has “no specified repayment date,” according to a financial statement for LOAV.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/paul-manafort-russia-trump.html

Initial object

As it happened, one of Hall's contemporaries, Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens, began getting the notion that being playing goal without a mask was a bad idea. Ever creative, even as a junior player, Plante began experimenting with the idea of a face protector.

https://www.nhl.com/news/jacques-plante-becomes-first-goalie-to-wear-mask/c-290431748

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Now, all hockey goalies wear masks. Moreover, all college hockey players wear masks and the vast majority of professional players wear visors. How would we predict that Jacques Plante's idea would become the initial object? Also, is it a terminal object too? How should we construct a meaningful category to model that?