by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2020 | Blog
Eric Orff, a wildlife biologist who used to work for the state and is well known in New Hampshire, is a rocket-launching buff. He tells me that he heads out to Odiorne State Park in the New Hampshire coastal town of Rye to watch them. This Sunday’s launch of...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire doesn’t have municipal electric utilities – city-owned providers of electricity – but other New England states do. They have a lot more flexibility than large corporate utilities or even regional co-ops. And here’s an example: 21...
by David Brooks | Nov 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Nov. 8 to Nov. 15 *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Signal Chopping Switch Circuit BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems...
by David Brooks | Nov 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve written many times about Benford’s Law, the non-intuitive discovery that certain types of data sets have an odd property: The first digit of their data is more likely to be small than large – in a classic Bendford’s dataset, numbers will...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the best-known electric vehicle repair people in the Northeast is Rich Benoit in Salem, Mass., a former IT guy who rode his YouTube videos about electric-vehicle repair to a national reputation. That reputation made him butt heads with famously secretive Tesla...