What I saw on the web on 2021.12.9

1. Edison was right: Waking up right after drifting off to sleep can boost creativity
   by Sofia Moutinho
   https://www.science.org/content/article/edison-was-right-waking-right-after-drifting-sleep-can-boost-creativity
   my personal anecdata agree with this
   via /.
   
   
2. Anyone Can Be a Math Person Once They Know the Best Learning Techniques
   by Po-Shen Loh
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7febmLhS6E
   the ustad is correct
   via boing
   
   
3. Omicron (the symbol) in Mathematics
   by Tony Padilla speaking to Brady Haran
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtfKMH6X44
   not the most commonly used greek letter in maths, but it does come up
   via rss
   
   
4. Big omicron and big omega and big theta
   by Donald E. Knuth
   https://www.phil.uu.nl/datastructuren/10-11/knuth_big_omicron.pdf
   (although "big omicron" is technically an oxymoron)
   via citation in previous link
   
   
5. Briefs on Hindustani musical instruments
   by Deepak Raja
   http://swaratala.blogspot.com/2021/12/briefs-on-hindustani-musical-instruments.html
   took me a moment to realize that it's an alphabetic list: so many instruments start with "S". sadly, still missing Sursagar
   via rss
   
   
6. Grammy-winning reggae legend Robbie Shakespeare dead at 68
   by CBC News
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-reggae-shakespeare-1.6279185
   dude was a legend. RIP.
   via rss
   
   
7. Give younger people more votes
   by Andrew Potter
   https://theline.substack.com/p/andrew-potter-give-younger-people
   a fascinating case of speculative policy. what would be the consequences of this proposal?
   via rss