Ron at 05:14, 29 April 2022

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You’re getting the blog early this week, because tonight is the last day of ''pesaḥ'', so we’ll be incommunicado until Saturday night our time.

Our ''seder'' (last ''shabbat'') was very pleasant, though there were only seven of us. [https://ronware.org/img/softmatsa.jpeg The “soft matsa”] was a definite hit. We finished quite early, but that was fine with everyone. The next day Sarah and Yarin visited, and we spent a few hours with them.

It turned out, later, that Yarin had come down with the dreaded COVIDian affliction, and then Sarah did as well; we’re on tenterhooks waiting for the axe to fall on ''our'' heads. So far we seem OK, though I was feeling a bit “under the weather” yesterday (as of this writing, I’m fine).

During the week we tried to avoid doing any work, but work had a way of insinuating itself into our holiday schedule despite our best efforts. Both of us did some, but we tried to keep it minimal, and restricted it as far as possible to the morning hours. Not that we did anything in particular later in the day, but we ''might'' have wanted to, and it ''is'' the holiday period, after all!

We did do the requisite BBQ one day: [https://ronware.org/img/hanger.jpeg hanger steak] cooked to perfection!

Various:
* Engineers at MIT design a new heat engine [https://news.mit.edu/2022/thermal-heat-engine-0413 with no moving parts] which is up to 40% efficient. Cool (or, rather, hot) stuff!
* A new research paper on [https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/undetectable-backdoors-in-machine-learning-models.html planting undetectable backdoors] in “machine-learning” models.
* Part 2 of [https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/04/15/from-keplers-law-to-newtons-gravity-yourself-part-2/ deriving Newtons’ law] from Kepler’s, yourself.
* The plot to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvyUcLXt1xI destroy “Libs of TikTok”]. Doxxing by professional journalists who’ve long since left ethical standards behind. “Holly Math Nerd” [https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/to-my-fellow-classical-liberals has an interesting bit] on it as well.
* John Dvorak asks, [https://dvorak.substack.com/p/stealing-from-the-rich-today by what legal or moral authority] are governments confiscating property (e.g. of “oligarchs”) today? He points out the slippery-slope upon which this rests.
* And Mallen Baker (“Dangerously Reasonable”) on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC9jyUBZyxY abuse in the name of science]: activists’ push to feed youth’s anxiety.

We’ve been invited for dinner, so that takes care of tonight’s plans (assuming we’re still feeling fine — we ''did'' check with them first regarding our potential infectious status). Apart from that, we’ll be hanging out at home, I presume. Keeping it real. Real quiet.

The weather’ll be nice today, which it has been all week. A bit more warming in the offing, possibly enough to warrant A/C over ''shabbat''. We can take it!

For ''yom-ṭov'' and ''shabbat'', we’re planning on:<br>
home-made soft ''matsa'',
[https://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/lamb-fava-beans/ lamb and fava stew],
chicken schnitzel,
rice,
matsa-ball and vegetable soup,
various salatim,
[https://www.jewishboston.com/read/mina-de-espinaca-spinach-cheese-and-matzo-pie/ ''mina de espinaca''],
chicken salad,
and banana brownies.<br>

Until next time,<br>
''shabbat shalom'' and ''ḥag pesaḥ kasher wesameaḥ''!

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Ron at 05:14, 29 April 2022

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