This evening, I watched Air Crash Investigation episode 1 of season 10 "Who's In Contol?" about the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951. (YouTube: 1 of 4.) I noticed that they used some fragments from Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 Accident Animation Dutch Safety Board,
but I am surprised that they did not go into the details of what happened
in the final ten seconds, which are also mentioned in this animation. It
is important to notice that the final report from the Dutch Safety Board states that the pilots
should have been able to control the plane when the stick-shaker was activated.
During the episode it is remarked that humans are good a making split
second decisions. Now it seems that the co-pilot, who was at the controls,
responded properly to the stick-shaker, but that his response was aborted
when the captain took over the contols. Next the captain failed to perform
the correct steps. Had the captain not taken over control, the plane most
like would not have crashed. I had always thought that Air Crash Investigation
was about going to the bottom of the cause, but it seems that they failed this
time, even though I think that Joseph Sedor, working for the NTSB, should have
known the U.S. Summary Comments on Draft Final Report of Aircraft Accident Turkish
Airlines flight 1951.
This afternoon, at 17:47, I bought the book Atelier Van Gogh,
ISBN:9789055443970, with introduction by Robert Hughes from
bookshop De Slegte for € 4.99.
Today, I received an email from Artem M. Karavaev informing me
about the new result with respect to the number of Hamiltonian Cycles in
graphs of the form PmxPn and CmxPn,
which he has published on Flow Problem. This extends the results
I found with respect to counting Hamiltonian cycles.
Interesting to see how others follow-up my research and have gone much further
than I thought would be possible. Karavaev is working on a paper dealing with
the results.
At 13:14, I bought the book Bob Dylan: Intimate Insights from Friends and
Fellow Musicians by Kathleen MacKay (ISBN:9781847721341) for € 4.00
from bookshop De Slegte.
Last Sunday, I readLynch's Dune, 1st Draft Screenplay. This screenplay stays quite
close to the key scenes of Dune by Frank Herbert. It deals with only the first half of
the book as it was the idea to cover the book by two movies. Although the
screenplay really focused on the core of the story, I felt that it was quite
boring. Yesterday, I started to read Dune
for the fourth time, the first time in English, curious about what made me
read the book so often. (I bought this copy on April 3, 2010 for € 4.00.) Maybe one reason why I felt that
the story is boring, is because the story was not really around Paul, the
main character of the book. In the first part of the book he is still having
a rather passive role in the story.
If I ever were to open a restaurant, I would present my dishes in
layers. The nice thing about presenting a dish in layers is that
often you cannot see the bottom layer, which makes it a kind of
surprise when you start eating the bottom layer through the other
layers. The bottom layer of the dish consisted of bits of chicken
in Chicken Tonight Satay Sauce. Then a layer of boiled string beans
and some rice on top. Normally, I would have put the sauce on top,
but because the sauce was left over from yesterday, I had to heat
it up in the microwave, and got the idea to put the beans and the
rice over it. I found it quite interesting and when I served for
the third time, I decided to take a picture, which explains the
'spots' of sauce on the edges of the plate.
According to some article, Grigori Perelman has given
an interview to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. He has agreed to
be part of a documentary about the cooperation and the struggle
between three major mathematical schools in the world: the Russian,
the Chinese and the American ones. During this interview
he said: "I know how to control the Universe. Why would I
run after a million, tell me?" According to the article some
seem to take this statement literal, but most likely Perelman
means "to control" in a figurative/mathematical sense.
This months interesting links
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