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Engineering initial conditions (some words of thanks)

The human civilization stumbled first upon metric geometry (the Greeks), then it invented projective geometry (Italian…
Competence without knowledge: a new reading of a page of Solaris

The following is from chapter “The Old Mimoid”, in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem “But you don’t know…
One, two, three, four, many

“A squire was determined to shoot a crow which made its nest in the watch-tower of…
Democracy and Education

One of my all time favorite sentences by legendary MIT linguist (whose opus is now preserved…
Golem xiv: the poverty of Antigone

The best explanation I know about transhumanism, and the poverty of Antigone’s appeal to the ‘unwritten…
Make video of (Markovian) density transition

Suppose one has managed to numerically compute the forward transition density of 2-dimensional Markov process under…
The Grand Design – Roger Sperry

There is a precious little book, which contains some hidden gems. It was written by the…
Zauberberg, 1929: on Infinity and Kants Einbildungskraft

“We reject the thesis of the categorical finiteness of man, both in the atheistic form of…
The concept of limit

In the introduction to “Anarchism” by D. Guerin, Chomsky stresses the existence of a cultural tradition going…
“What is the logical form of this?” on Sen, Gramsci, Sraffa and Wittgenstein

In a perceptive book, Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer at Google, and responsible for the Hidden Markov…