Technology is continuously evolving, and for the most part that’s good. Every now and then, though, the evolution starts to look like a random mutation … the kind that results in an apocalyptic virus, or mutants with superpowers, or something else that is much more appealing as a plot device in a movie or TV …
For quite a while, I was getting security nags from Firefox every time a web site wanted to run a Java applet. Firefox would tell me I needed to upgrade to the latest version of Java. That would have been fine, except that I was already running the latest Java (1.8.0_66 as of this writing). …
Let me briefly recap parts 1-3 for those of you who like to jump into the middle of a series, convinced that they’ll get the hang of it anyway. You might, but a recap is nice anyway. Remember these posts use MathJax to render equations. Your browser can handle this, so if you see a bunch …
In the previous two parts, I told you how I became interested in the quantum measurement problem (Part I), and provided a bit of historical background (Part 2). Now we’ll get to the heart of the matter. Note that I’m using MathJax to display equations in this blog. If your browser shows a bunch of dollar …