American Butt Ball is 3,400 years old

An odd form of MesoAmerican soccer portrayed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKvQjgC9sIY

is over 3,400 years old.  American Butt Ball  is not as old as the American baseball game aka protoball portrayed in the epic of Gilgamesh, of course.

The Year's Best Science Fiction (1986) edited by Frederik Pohl

Some of the stories are dated and do not hold up; others are fine, 3/5 stars.

The Singularity Trap by Dennis E Taylor

I loved the Bobiverse books and this story does not disappoint.  The nanotech capabilities and limitations were poorly defined so parts of the story were a little too deus est machina, (contrived) but the characters and story line were great, 4/5 Stars.

Prisoner of Darkness, Galaxy's Edge book 6 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole

I am not enjoying how the story line is shifting away from space opera towards fantasy but the close combat is still great, 3/5 Stars.

Asymptomatic Transmission?

The role of delayed and asymptomatic transmission is still unclear with errors larger than our results.  Massive testing is needed to understand what is really happening.

effective COVID-19 therapy

I feel compelled to contribute to the noise, sorry!  ArsTech put out this fantastic, approachable write-up on how we shall treat the virus.  This peer reviewed paper on using malaria medications is getting lots of attention right now. Go Remisdir; go Chloroquine!

Dry cough - do I have COVID-19?

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-symptom-progression-11-03-2020.pdf 

If you do not have fever within a day of your cough, you are 88% likely to have some other problem.

 

3D model: how Remdesivir binds to SARS-CoV-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKLLKP7pk0o

On March 6, when Gilead Sciences announced clinical trials of their anti-viral medication Remdesivir, I bought shares in their stock (and yes, it is up).  Coincidentally, one of my children had an assignment at University to model how the medication (Remdesivir) binds to SARS-CoV-2.

Here is the video.

iter8 for A/B testing using istio, k8s

This approach to enable canary testing and A/B testing  looks very interesting.

interfaces in open infrastructure around kubernetes

Katie Gamanji takes us on a journey through the evolution of the open source tools ecosystem surrounding kubernetes, its past, present, and possible futures.