Years Ago in Germany

Years Ago in Germany

"In [Daniel Kehlmann's] first novel translated into English, the 31-year-old literary wunderkind's breezy, sometimes charming and ultimately inconsequential work follows the actual lives, careers and eventual intersection of two of Germany's brightest scientists: explorer, geographer and naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the astronomer and aptly crowned 'prince of mathematicians' Carl Friedrich Gauss."

Horses for Courses

In his essay titled, "Horses for Courses," John Marks points out that an all-around test that is representative of everything a car (or audio system) is asked to do may be preferable to just acceleration times (or distortion measurements). I am also reminded of how computer benchmarks show one winner for some tests and may show another winner for a different test that emphasizes I/O data transfer instead of CPU speed, for example. Each of these makes the term Horses for Courses a relevant subject.

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