Long and Boring Holiday

Succot in Kever Benjamin. Yesterday had dinner in the sukkah of my daughter. The grand children happy playing with a dog.

Today too hot to go out so I slept late and then entertain myself  preparing a long, long, detailed Bill of Quantities for a processed egg factory.  Boring. 

I try to imagine the quantum universe we are living in. Apparently it is like balls on strings, many balls on many strings: the balls can move freely to the right or to the left each on its string (the string being time, the balls are quanta that can move to the future or back). The situation at the start defines all the possibilities, knowing the starting situation one can know all the possible situation in the future. One can move the balls on the string left or right, time is meaningless. The whole game is meaningless.  

The Hunt for 859 Escaped ISIS fighters

"Jelal Ayaf, co-chair of Ayn Issa camp, said:

- 859 people escaped from the foreigners section

- Sleeper cells emerged from inside 'open' IDP section". 

Many of the escapees are Europeans. It may be hypothesized that the Kurds opened the prison doors and let them go.

The hunt is on for these terrorists trying to go home in Europe and re-start their careers in mischief making.

America's Strategy in Syria

Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Al-Faisal said: “The situation in Syria, we really don’t know where the United States is, for example, is it in or is it out?”

Poor Saudis. They don't understand America's permanent strategy the world over. America has no other goal but to foment chaos and strife,  America wants having them all at each others throat, uncertain and desperate, all seeking its favor. Peace and harmony are dangerous, they could unite... against the primus inter pares. Like the Saudis today, they should be wondering what is what America is trying to do, in which side it is, how could we avoid its anger? 

Back to Analog Computing

Trying to understand how D- Wave quantum computers work, realized that they are not digital computers but analogical machines. It is like כלים שלובים  a machine of multiple communicating vessels where the system settles in a stable configuration which is the solution. Annealing, they say, heating the metal up and then let it cool down slowly, eliminating internal stresses. The solution is reached faster than calculating (digital computation). Imagine a river flowing down from a mountain. It is almost impossible to calculate its course, but the river selects it without effort, instantly. It seems to me simple, and more primitive than a digital computer, but that is because I do not understand anything of what I am writing, may be. 

Weapons Made-in-Nigeria

A group of Nigerian fighters. I recognize the weapons: they are the same to those sold in the Jos market. Ibo made. In my post-independence times, firearms were forbidden and very rare. 

The Japan I Missed

I have been a few times in the Far East, yet blinded by the stupid urge to work, I missed out its alcohol culture. Chinese rice liquors is the nearest I got, and did not specially like it. Yet it must have been somewhere out there but I did not see it. Chinese chronicles record the excessive drinking, singing  and dancing of the Yamatai people. Japanese adults on average drink 4.4 shots of hard liquor per week, the fifth highest in the world behind South Korea and Russia. Visitors to Japan comment that the country reeks of alcohol. I want to be immersed in that atmosphere !

Prisoner as I am of a vegan abstemious, fasting - ascetic clan, I fantasy of a lenient society. Japanese law makes no mention of such a crime as being drunk and disorderly. If anything, inebriation is taken into account as a mollifying factor if a crime is committed. Japanese society also tolerates sex in its versicolor forms. Japan is superior, if they only would change their writing so I could learn the lingo. 

Decoupling China and America

Decoupling aka Divorce is what Washington is advancing. America will not sell nor buy from China and will try to sabotage China's development. This policy was feasible before and shortly after Nixon opened up China, but now it is far too late. China has gained a mile long advantage in the quantum field - it has a working quantum communication system and advanced commercial quantum computing systems (Pic. the Qasky. You can buy it on the internet). No one else has any working quantum machine. Decoupling smells as war, and that is very bad. In my opinion, the Communist Party's rule in China is unsustainable and if left alone, in a decade it will collapse, like the Soviet Union. Then it will fragment and open up once more to Western colonization. My words have no magical powers, so the above does not mean that I wish it to happen, and my words will not cause it happen. Just thinking.

Thinking on Qasky and other Chinese quantum products, I like Chinese products and my place is full of them. China has supplied me good and cheap products, and I see China as a force for good. Of course, I am very shortsighted, going blind as I age.