Viewing profile — ctdavies

Das Kapital. You know why.

"The thesis melded George Boole’s nineteenth-century Boolean algebra (based on the variables true and false, denoted by the binary one and zero)" I just have to complain about this…

Sorry, but it does sounds to me like you are blaming the victim when you write "The problem is probably mostly emotionally, on her side." It's her stalker who has the emotional pro…

What about when a "usage of technology" itself limits the rights of others? I believe in that case it may be best to limit rights-limiting actions, such that the net rights protect…

This claim is unfounded: "the vast majority of the legion of logical punctuators are not consciously rejecting illogical American style, or consciously imitating the British. Rathe…

Gardner calls Searle "the scoundrel of Hofstadter’s book." He is now also the scoundrel of this thread.

Huh, are you the famous philosopher John Searle?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

lisp lisp lisp lisp lisp lisp

I think pain probably still occurs when injured, too.

The belief in perpetual growth is a cultural malady. But you're right, no startup ever said that!

Hey Airbnb, don't further optimize: you'll lose your hipster cred.

What!? This correspondence doesn't correspond at all to their love affair as depicted in the film Young Einstein.

No Noyce?

Lisp is Sirius.

I'm writing this just to comment on your use of the word "meme"; it's not intended to be a criticism* but the expression of an observation. In your fourth sentence, it seems that a…

"We hold that organisms are constructed in development, not simply ‘programmed’ to develop by genes. Living things do not evolve to fit into pre-existing environments, but co-const…

I just want to play Mario

Ah I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm confused by the use of "accuracy" and "precision" in this article. From the IEEE article: "[ultranarrow lasers] will make it practical for us to achieve an accuracy below 10^-1…

As an aside, the Manhattan cocktail was invented for Churchill's mother.

This article doesn't even mention Fermi! Anyway, I thought most people already knew the Manhattan Project began in Manhattan.

I think this might be the singularity

I'm pretty sure it's already found its way.

Why not just use Clojure?