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I love this friendly jab at Flaubert from Nietzsche “On ne peut penser et écrire qu’assis - One cannot think and write except when seated (G. Flaubert). There I have caught you, ni…

Let's imagine one note as a point on a plane, then an interval (2 notes) as a line connecting those notes. Next we have a chord (3 notes) and we get a triangle. By inverting the no…

"How to talk about books you haven't read" by Pierre Bayard is another interesting book on this subject. I presume Derrida is not much liked around here but this excerpt is pure go…

related but off-topic: Would it be nice if we could just go meta and share newsletters as "self-updating" bookmarks on something like pinboard(just a happy user here)? Next step - …

How far are we from paying people to play a programming game, while using their code/solutions for solving problems?

There is a wonderfull joke in talmud when two rabbis argue about some problem. One says: Let's call Jehova and ask him directly! So Jehova comes but the other rabbi tells him: God …

German is very suitable for abstract thinking because you can form compound words with ease and put the function at the end of the sentence. These compound words are hard to transl…

I feel somewhat similar.. on a side note Hegel's way of thinking is very "algorhythmical". For example the art of the metaobject protocol explores common lisp in a similar way as H…

“This concern with aim or results, with differentiating and passing judgement on various thinkers is therefore an easier task than it might seem. For instead of getting involved in…