What I saw on the web on 2022.5.27

1. Justice Minister Tyler Shandro gives Edmonton City Council two weeks to solve a problem decades in the making
   by David Climenhaga
   https://albertapolitics.ca/2022/05/justice-minister-tyler-shandro-gives-edmonton-city-council-two-weeks-to-solve-a-problem-decades-in-the-making/
   as the article notes, this just might have something to do with Tyler's own reckoning, coming in a few months...?
   via rss
   
   
2. Field Topology
   by Randall Munroe
   https://xkcd.com/2625/
   Randall's use of "field" is likely making some algebraists twitch
   via rss
   
   
3. How do we treat unique talents?
   by David R. MacIver
   https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-do-we-treat-unique-talents-32a
   three case studies of weird people who were only tolerated becaues they had useful talents
   via rss
   
   
4. Leaving shiny things behind
   by DRMacIver
   https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2022-05-27-14:08.html
   i'm increasingly thinking of what he calls shiny things as parasites on my attention
   via rss
   
   
5. “You Are Watching the Power of Music Changing Brain Chemistry”
   by Kate Silver
   https://reasonstobecheerful.world/dementia-music-healing-brain-neurology/
   music as a treatment for dementia: sounds like a worthwhile project
   via rss
   
   
6. "If this holds up --- and both of them are fabulous mathematicians, then it is huge."
   by Neil Calkin
   https://twitter.com/neil_calkin/status/1530288990431195136?t=ZDALIcS031922v_KIpqGsQ&s=19
   a short proof of the four-colour theorem? yeah, that's huge. if it holds up.
   via reddit
   
   
7. King Crimson - New Music, Toronto TV October 22 1981 * El Mocambo * Discipline tour * Robert Fripp
   by someone interviewing Robert Fripp
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq4BC2CqBo8
   interesting to hear Robert's perspective on things from now over 40 years ago
   via reddit
   
   
8. A Reply to Alex Danco: Revisiting MacLeod and the Three Ladders in the Wake of Trump
   by Michael O. Church
   https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/a-reply-to-alex-danco-revisiting-macleod-and-the-three-ladders-in-the-wake-of-trump/
   i still remember fondly his three-ladder class model. but his two-class model is a lot more plausible these days
   via various googlery
   
   
9. A Computational Understanding of ZFC Set Theory
   by Michael O. Church
   https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/a-computational-understanding-of-zfc-set-theory/
   it's always good to have more perspectives on things, especially something as important as ZFC
   via digging around near previous link