THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

— Ambrose Bierce

BIRTHDAYS:

1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.

1625 Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and physicist.

1655 Johann Christoph Denner, German musician and inventor (clarinet), baptized in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire.

1699 John Dyer, Welsh painter and poet.

1819 George Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist.

1820 George Grove, British civil engineer, writer, musicologist, music historian (Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians), and administrator (Director of Royal College of Music, 1882-94).

1831 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer. Quintett Nr.3 op.126 (1:12)

1860 Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and folk heroine.

1879 John Ireland, English composer and pianist. Elegy (from A Downland Suite).

1888 John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world’s first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.

1899 Alfred Hitchcock, English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema.

MISCELLANEOUS:

YES, IT DOES. LLM Hallucination Seems Like a Very Big Problem, Not a Mere Speedbump

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. AND FOR ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)