The discussion of Weyl is incoherent: according to the author he was both forced out and decided to leave. The reality is that he decided to leave Germany out of fear for his family, after delaying an alarming interval of time.
One of the very first people to be removed from a faculty position by the Nazis in the purge of Jews is also one of the most important mathematicians and scientists of the 20th century, but goes unmentioned by this author. I discuss her removal and its aftermath, and the phenomenon of her invisibility to both amateur and professional historians, in my forthcoming book: https://lee-phillips.org/noether/
I didn’t hear a difference either. I think the reason is explained in the comment by mrob above. Obviously the author believes he can hear a clear difference. I wonder if he blind tested himself.
Obviously it’s at the very least unwise to use Google Docs for anything, at any time. This case shows that Google spies on your content and takes action based on their analysis of that content. Depending on Gmail for your email service is also clearly foolhardy.
I read far too much of it and got nothing beyond “too many websites look the same”. Horrible, careless writing and proofreading. One interesting idea was that “usability”, although it’s the conventional standard, is not always desirable—friction and surprise in design can be preferable.
This site completely breaks my browser’s zoom function, making it almost unusable. Perhaps that was intentional.
The author links to a “blog post”, but hasn’t looked for much preceding work. For example, this article from 2018 in LWN was the first that opened my eyes to the wide differences in latency among terminal emulators:
But your blog link has the same issues the author mentioned - not including some modern apps like wezterm and not measuring the full / end-to-end latency
Honorable retractions, as a result of honest errors, happen all the time in science and, while unfortunate, are not a huge deal.
Much different are the retractions based on research fraud. retractionwatch provides a valuable service in tracking all types of retractions, and in warning the community about unethical or predatory journals.
Retraction Watch provides information. They do an excellent job in following up on incidents and supplying the complete picture. It’s always clear from their reports whether an author was shady or simply made a mistake—and this is usually clear from the author’s behavior, as well.
Of course neither they nor anyone else can be held responsible for unjustified assumptions of the mob, except the members of the mob.
One of the very first people to be removed from a faculty position by the Nazis in the purge of Jews is also one of the most important mathematicians and scientists of the 20th century, but goes unmentioned by this author. I discuss her removal and its aftermath, and the phenomenon of her invisibility to both amateur and professional historians, in my forthcoming book: https://lee-phillips.org/noether/
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