Was thrilled to receive this email from Yu Ding (EIC of Informs Journal on Data Science, who invited me to write an article based on my INFORMS Keynote) responding to my draft of
How INFORMS can contribute to the Second Quantum Revolution
as I was finishing watching the finale of Season 2 of
The Night Manager is a British spy thriller television serial based on the 1993 novel by John le Carré.
Season 1 has been, by far, the best miniseries I have seen on any streaming service in the last 10 years (yes, ahead of The Queen’s Gambit, and, perhaps tied with Season 1 of Tehran). I will not spoil by saying anything at this time. In progress are Hi/Jack (Season 2) and Tehran (Season 3, the previous season was not that taut). A lighter-fair and quite entertaining Indian miniseries is:
Taskaree: The Smuggler’s Web (lit. ’Smuggling: The Smuggler’s Web’) is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language superhit crime thriller television series. Taskaree achieved significant global viewership, becoming the first Indian series to top Netflix’s global non-English television list.
Recall from Quantum+Health that I am creating a series on Cosmology, consisting of Necklaces (TMP: Tayur Musings on Physics) and Gems (TLP Tayur Lectures on Physics). The first gem was TLP1: Special Relativity. I thought it appropriate that the second gem be:
Last week, I presented to the Starzl Network on Split Liver Transplantation (and GenEx). Looking forward to presenting Quantum-inspired GAMA to NASA folks (invited by Jeremy Frank, Group Lead, Intelligent Systems Division, NASA Ames Research Center, who was connected to me by Davide Venturelli) next week before heading out to SF to watch the Superbowl live (the last time was in 2009, in Tampa, on February 1, when Steelers beat Cardinals):
I spent the last 2 weeks binging on Seasons 1 & 2 of “The Night Manager”. I’ve seen all but the last concluding episode. Yes, great fun … a new Bond?
Indeed, TH can be a credible 007.