Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
Seabiscuit began the campaign in relative obscurity. He won two overnight purses in his first 10 starts, captured a claiming stakes at Saratoga by six lengths and then won a graded handicap by four lengths.
Enter Charles S. Howard. He visited Saratoga for a round of parties and stopped by Fitzsimmons barn one morning, looking to purchase a nice allowance horse.
Mr. Fitz said he could have Seabiscuit for $7,500, and Howard shook hands on the deal. At that point, Seabiscuit had won nine of 47 starts, and earned less than $18,500.
In Howard’s colors, he won 24 of 42 starts and almost $420,000.
Nasa New Jet Planes
NASA has another job:
Build the mass public transporation of the future for the Airlines industry.
This is one of them.
The “double bubble” D8 Series future aircraft design concept comes from the research team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dijkstra’s algorithm
- Open shortest path first algorithm
, conceived by Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra in 1956 and published in 1959, is a graph search algorithm that solves the single-source shortest path problem for a graph with nonnegative edge path costs, producing a shortest path tree. This algorithm is often used in routing. An equivalent algorithm was developed by Edward F. Moore in 1957.
Computational search engine
The goal of WolframAlpha is to provide you with an insane amount of up-to-date information on just about everything. What encompasses everything? Well for starters, let’s go with trigonometry, current weather conditions, historical weather conditions, up-to-date economic statistics, real-time astronomy charts, Olympic trivia… OK, you get the point. WolframAlpha wants to help you become the annoying guy at parties who always fact checks people with his tablet.
Success? or value?
# “Imagination is more important than knowledge..”
# “I, at any rate, am convinced that God does not throw dice.”
# “The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
# “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
# “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
# “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value”
# “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
# “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
# “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
# “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
# “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
# “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
# “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the 
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
# “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
# “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
# “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater”
# “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
# “Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
# “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”
# “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
# “Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”
Win
- All war is deception.
- He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious
- If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
- Pretend inferiority and encourage your enemy’s arrogance.
- Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
- Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu 544 BC- 496 BC, military commander and strategist, author of the book ‘Art of War’
Work smart
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
I don’t pretend to understand the Universe - it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle, Essayist, satirist, historian, 1795-1881
Force
All religious expression is symbolism; since we can describe only what we see, and the true objects of religion are THE SEEN.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
The Republic cloaks its ambition with the pretense of a desire and duty to “extend the area of freedom”.
The thirst for power is never satisfied.
Remember that every moral characteristic of man finds its prototype an1ong creatures of lower intelligence;
Habit is a great force; it is second nature, even in trees. It is as strong in nations as in men.
