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Interdependent Science: The Dress
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. I have been having far too much fun with the wonderful color illusion of the dress that has been making the internet rounds lately! I copied the main colors of the stripes from the photograph, and tried to create two different contexts, one where the colors are easy to interpret as blue and black:. Another where it is easy to interpret them as white and gold:. It's a nice illustration of interdependence! Maybe it is too shocking to believe, but. Take a look, too, at:. Toward ...
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Interdependent Science: April 2014
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Friday, April 18, 2014. Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Has been getting a lot of attention lately. I can easily to add it to the stack of books that I want to read. Actually reading it: maybe someday! Somehow a serious book like that takes me a month. There are just more books to read than months to read them in! Of course this is not so easy. First, one needs to design some alternative structure. Then there needs to be some sort of transition to take us from todayR...This ...
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Interdependent Science: March 2014
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Thursday, March 6, 2014. It is not utterly unreasonable to invent some scheme for answering such questions, but it will necessarily be an invention rather than a discovery. We might be able to gather enough data to measure with reasonable accuracy the median income of families 100 years ago and families today. Does the median family of today live better than the median family of 100 years ago? No amount of data gathering can answer that question! The peak of conventional petroleum production in 2005?
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Interdependent Science: July 2014
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Friday, July 18, 2014. My proposal here is to use graphs, of a particular class, to represent the state of a computation. Just like a Turing machine writes new symbols over old symbols on its tape in order to record the result of a computational step, the graph machine will modify a small part of the graph at each computational step. Second, it could provide a powerful processor architecture. New compilers for existing high level languages could insulate users from the change in architecture. Pro...This ...
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Interdependent Science: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. I have been having far too much fun with the wonderful color illusion of the dress that has been making the internet rounds lately! I copied the main colors of the stripes from the photograph, and tried to create two different contexts, one where the colors are easy to interpret as blue and black:. Another where it is easy to interpret them as white and gold:. It's a nice illustration of interdependence! Maybe it is too shocking to believe, but. Sunday, February 22, 2015.
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Interdependent Science: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015. I haven't been following the details of the Rachel Dolezal affair, so I have no useful opinions to offer on the specifics. But the framework of ideas in which the issues unfold is quite fascinating. The Buddhist traditions have explored many of these ideas in a deep and rich way and should be able to contribute constructively to the discussion. Rachel Dolezal is reported as saying, "I identify as black." What layers of potential meaning are packed into this? Nowadays there are v...
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Interdependent Science: Gathering Thoughts
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Saturday, June 6, 2015. This past week I attended a Dharma Teacher Gathering. At the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck. That's close enough to home that I could ride my bike to get there and back, which was delightful! I think the last time I was at Omega was in 1990. The place hasn't changed so much over those years. the food is still great! The gathering included around 240 teachers. It was really an amazing group of people! Over the years, I have talked with folks interested in a scientific approach to Bud...
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Interdependent Science: December 2013
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Friday, December 6, 2013. Buddhist practice is like a three legged stool. Three legs support the transformation of our minds, from their entrapment in craving and delusion, to the wisdom and compassion of perfect freedom. These supports are our practices of view, meditation, and action. It is a core principle of Buddhism that our enemies are like a treasure because they give us opportunities to practice patience. The highest goal in Buddhism is to dedicate ourselves to benefiting others. Is it no...The a...
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Interdependent Science: January 2014
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Sunday, January 5, 2014. The Mind in Science. Does a person in a coma have a mind? Do dolphins have minds? It is a bit difficult to be too confident about the exact scope of this axiom when looking back in history one can see quite dramatic shifts. No doubt the studies of the neurophysiology of feline retinas etc. will continue ever more fruitfully. Is the study of neurophysiology the same as the study of the mind? Is the study of logic the same as the study of the mind? 8221; Certainly it can and does h...
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Interdependent Science: September 2014
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Saturday, September 6, 2014. Writing on a Turing Tape. In an earlier post here, Computing with Graphs. I proposed a class of graphs and a few simple rewrite rules that could provide a way to store computational data. These graphs could provide a more realistic memory model than either Turing tapes or random access memories. In that post I sketched a proof that the rewrite rules were complete, i.e. they provide a path from any graph in the proposed class to any other graph in the class. At this point it s...
