TITLE: Quick Hits
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 22, 2021  2:23 PM
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 It's been another one of those months when I think about blogging
 a lot but never set aside time to write.  Rather than wait for the
 time to finish a piece I'm writing, about the process of writing a
 demo code generator for my compiler students, I thought I'd drop a
 few tidbits now, just for fun.  Maybe that will break the ice for
 writing this holiday week.

 &bullet;  Two possible titles for my next blog: <b>Dear Crazy Future
 Eugene</b> and <b>Eugene Wallingford's Descent Into Madness</b>.
 (Hey to Sheldon Cooper.)

 &bullet;  A nice quote from one of my daughters' alumni magazines:
 A biology major who is now an executive at a nonprofit agency was
 asked about the value of having majored in science.
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 When science is taught the right way, she said, "it is relevant in
 just about every situation".
</em></blockquote>
 Everyone can benefit from thinking like a scientist, and feeling
 comfortable with that mode of thinking.  (Hey to Chad Orzel and
<a href="https://chadorzel.com/?p=11">
   Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist</a>.)

 &bullet;  Dan Wang on the US's
<a href="https://twitter.com/danwwang/status/1462441790733045760">
   ability to be a manufacturer of batteries</a>:
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 Batteries are hard to ship and tend to be developed for particular
 automakers.  So they're made close to the site of auto assembly.
 The US could be a big battery maker if only it built the charging
 network and offered subsidies on the scale of Europe and China,
 it's not hard.
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 The worlds of manufacturing and big industry are different in
 fundamental ways from software.  I learn a lot from Wang's deep
 dives into process knowledge and investment.  A lot of his ideas
 apply to software, too.
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