Would it even be possible that a computer could not be the right tool for doing something simple like math? I’m not talking any really complicated math problems either. I’m just talking about simple stuff like multiplication and long division.

The problem is that there comes a time when you really want to see the steps and the handiwork of what it took to come to the solution for the math problem. You may have guessed it by now, I’m talking about that phrase we all hated as a child in school… show your work.
My wife and I have been looking …read more

Also too much Wendy’s chili

A survey released Monday by the National Sleep Foundation found roughly one-third of those surveyed said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work in the past month.  This is bad news for the economy since one-third of workers are sleepy and two-thirds are stupid.
Just how big a deal sleepy workers are depends, of course, on the job. Last week, Dr. Dale E. Klein, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged it’s probably not a great thing that security guards routinely took naps while on the job at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant.  “On …read more