This guest post is by Joe Davis, Vanguard Global Chief EconomistThe American mathematician Claude Shannon, who conceived and laid the foundation for information theory. He famously established a lower bound for the number of possible moves in a typical chess match: around 10120. That's 10 with 119 zeroes after it. Reflecting on when the COVID-19 [...]
Looking at 2020 in the Distance When I was a youngster growing up in Cape Town in the 70’s, I would try to imagine what the year 2020 would bring. I wondered where I’d be and what my life would be like. It seemed so far in the future. However, the symmetry of the year [...]
On February 25th, 2019, Hillel successfully completed the 4-mile swim from Robben Island to Big Bay in 57 degree water temperature and in a time of 3 hours and 7 minutes. https://youtu.be/wQ7N_avPpl4 Cold water, shark scares, chafing and sunburn didn't stop him. He wrote extensively about his experience and journey to achieve this goal in [...]