Subject: Researchers have begun circulating beams of protons in the Large Hadron Collider after a two-year shutdown for upgrades

Big Bang Beam: Large Hadron Collider Restarts After Two-Year Break - nbcnews.com/science

"The LHC is the world's most powerful collider. It's also the most expensive, with an estimated construction cost of $10 billion. Thousands of physicists and engineers are on its experimental teams.

During its first research run, between 2009 and 2013, the collider was used to discover the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle whose existence was predicted in the 1960s but could not be detected until the LHC came along. The Higgs is thought to play a role in imparting the property of mass to other fundamental particles — and it was the last big missing puzzle piece in the Standard Model, the theory that governs particle physics..."

Subject: Mathematics in Sociology - the math puzzle doodles

Occam's Razor is a line of reasoning that says the simplest answer is often correct. 

A) Fermat's Last Theorem:

In 1630, Fermat wrote in the margin of an old Greek mathematics book that he could demonstrate that no integers (whole numbers) can make the equation x (to the power of n) + y (to the power of n) = z (to the power of n) ... true if n is greater than 2.

     

     

B) P vs NP problem (whether P ='s NP or not):

Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin formulated the P (i.e., easy to find) versus NP (i.e., easy to check) problem independently in 1971.

Subject: IBM pumps $3 billion into new IoT business unit, What's up with that (!?)

Definition "IoT" photo clip link: whatis.techtarget.com

IBM to pump $3 billion into new IoT business unit

"Hungry for a bigger piece of the Internet of things market, IBM will invest US$3 billion over four years to establish a new business unit dedicated to providing IoT systems and services to enterprises...

By 2021, as many as 28 billion IoT devices will be installed around the world, IDC has estimated. General Electric has predicted that IoT systems will add up to $15 trillion to global annual Gross Domestic Product over the next 20 years...

The Police departments of Durham, North Carolina, and Memphis, Tennessee work with IBM to collect data that can help them better target crime hot spots. And Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. General Services Administration are working with IBM to build IoT systems that can cut energy costs in their buildings...".

Social Politics - 101 :

First of all ... investment can be a good thing ... up to a point. Not so good when you factor in the corporate business angle of today.

Two obvious problems that one should be concerned about ...

1) IBM's history of computer standardization (industry power grab in the mid 1980's) and the most recent FCC ruling concerning net-neutrality (potential bandwidth hog, if not corporate controller and additional service cost provider...).

2) Now two newly, ultra-conservative, police departments being noted as using pseudo-crime profiling "collection data" for crime hot-spots has become a real, if not long term possibility, PLUS a concern for majority, as well as minority, citizens who are law abiding has been revealed in the above IBM article. This note (&) example, if law officials don't already know where their higher crime enforcement areas are ("Catch-22 ... more arrests ='s more crime" SP-101) ... then it's probably time to relocate some of these state / country employees to another type of work...Fast Food Services.