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Zeitgeist and Ethos: March 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Social Cohesion and Freedom. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Drawn-in as I am by HBO's John Adams miniseries,. Thursday, March 6, 2008. Social Cohesion and Freedom. Sometimes small pebbles of coherence emerge from this interest, like work on characterizing the complexity of grammars fo...
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: May 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Saturday, May 31, 2008. Hot on the heels of Susan Jacoby’s paean (“ The Age of American Unreason. Like Jacoby, the problem is technology’s withering effect on deep processing of complex ideas. There is nothing terrifically new here, though. 8221; in the 80s. I certainly hope tha...
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: September 2007
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Affect and The Natural History of Morality. Effective Procedures and Transcendentalism. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Sunday, September 23, 2007. Still, my son was intrigued by the idea that children think so oddly about the world. During our discussion, a sea plane taxied by on the water outside and dis...
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L'Accademia de' Pignuoli: febbraio 2014
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Idee e pignolerie assortite. Trenitalia ci tiene all. inglese? Daniele A. Gewurz. Visualizza il mio profilo completo. Qui per il catalogo dei Dragomanni. Sparare sulla croce rossa. Bizze del capitano in congedo. È bello vivere nel futuro. Articoli di altri blog che mi fa piacere segnalare. Blog interessanti, e altro. Dropbox: 68 milioni di account violati, ma password datate 2012. Il problema di agosto (576) - Parenti contro ispettori. Passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes.
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Shtetl-Optimized: December 2005
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Saturday, December 31, 2005. Alright, we had 35 submissions for the Best Umeshism Contest, of which 23 were eligible (i.e., had a name and were posted by the deadline). After lengthy deliberation, the Shtetl-Optimized. Executive Committee is pleased to announce a winner. But first, the runners-up:. If you've never broken the bed, you're not experimenting enough. If you've never hit the ground while skydiving, you're opening your parachute too early. If you've never written a sentence fragment. As you may...
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Shtetl-Optimized: June 2006
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006. Time to do Scott's research again. Is it NP-hard to find a unit vector w that maximizes the (absolute value of the) product of inner products, (v. What about in C. Are these problems hard to approximate on a logarithmic scale? 20 for answers to all three. I should get better at doing these things myself. Posted by Scott at 6:54 AM. Links to this post. Sunday, June 25, 2006. Use the embryo strategy. Exploit the "quantum Zeno effect.". Find yourself a "boss.". When I was at Berkeley...
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews: September 2013
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews. Thursday, September 19, 2013. Charles R. Marshall reviews Darwin's Doubt: When Prior Belief Trumps Scholarship. Walcott quarry in the Burgess Shale, which beautifully preserves soft-bodied animals from shortly after the Cambrian explosion. CREDIT: MARK A. WILSON (DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, WOOSTER COLLEGE)/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. I like to read the arguments of those who hold fundamentally different views from my own in the hope of discovering weaknesses in my thinking. And so...
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews: Meyer’s Mistake
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews. Saturday, September 7, 2013. Quite apart from any factual errors, about which I’m not at all qualified to judge, here is what seems to me to be Meyer’s fundamental logical error IMO:. Darwin’s Doubt, Chapter 2). He illustrates this by asking us to comparing this figure, which he says is what we do see:. With this (appallingly badly drawn) one:. Which he claims Darwin’s theory says we ought to see. Well, of course it does, Dr Meyer! You have just, in Chapter 2 of your fat ...
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews: Doubting "Darwin's Doubt"
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Darwin's Doubt Critical Reviews. Saturday, September 7, 2013. This question is the starting point for a new book that aims to rekindle the “intelligent design” movement. “Darwin’s Doubt,” by Stephen Meyer, which will début at No. 7. On the New York. That intelligent design was religion, not science, and barred it from schools. Contains many well-documented counterexamples to Meyer’s argument, and the mechanisms by which life’s machinery can change quickly are well known. Whole genes can b...Most absurd o...
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: November 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Thursday, November 6, 2008. The most striking effect of the election of Barack Obama was how the extreme Right Wing legitimized outright insanity. I'll get back to that in a moment. Chronicles a few of them, including the remarkable claim that Obama was hypnotizing his audiences.
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