by David Brooks | Jun 30, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a new bachelor’s degree in music being offered at Plymouth State University, but it’s a music degree with a 21st century twist: You don’t have to know how to play an instrument or even read music. “We have a whole group of musicians that I refer to as...
by David Brooks | Jun 27, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
After spending an hour recently with Jeff Moore of Windswept Maples Farm in Loudon as he demonstrated an automated gate system for beef cattle, I came to a realization: Farming is an optimization problem. Optimization problems are common in computing and economics....
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
From NH Aviation Museum: On July 31, 1973, a flight carrying 83 passengers and six crew members departed Manchester for Boston’s Logan airport, where it crashed into a seawall while attempting to land in dense fog. Of those on board, all but two died instantly. One...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through June 25. *** System and Method for Distributed Utility Service Execution...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The Washington Post has a section called Department of Data that takes a look at various questions through – well, data. Today they tackled the issue of landline phones, including the question of why landlines are more common in the Northeast. (I also pondered...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader has a good look at questions around three small dams on six miles of the Piscataquog River which may lose their license to exist due to questions about hydropower and fish passage. Fixing a dam is expensive! The full story is here.
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