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- On Living In A Simulation
Starting from the question of the world being created by some intelligent being vs the latest version of the ‘multiverse’, which encompasses every possible universe (out of 10^500!), and in which the physical rules are basically arbitrary, the article moves …
- Words, Wide Night
Words, Wide NightSomewhere on the other side of this wide nightand the distance between us, I am thinking of you.The room is turning slowly away from the moon.This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that …
- RFID Virus: “Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?”
Just published was an interesting article describing for the first time the possibility and example implementation of a RFID based virus. Although it seems quite astonishing that a passive device with such limited resources (about 128 bytes of storage) can …
- Fiddling With Genes
James Watson, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA, famously put it: “No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why …
- Reading-Lesen
more citations on reading in wikiquote english deutsch
- Good And Bad Procrastination
Nice article by Paul Graham about Good and Bad Procrastination . It basically leads via another viewpoint to go for the important rather than the urgent things in life – focus …
- The Meme Hunter
Nice popular and short introduction to the idea of memes.
The Meme Hunter by Andrew Brown - Life Without Cell Phone
“That was the hardest day of my life. I felt like I was missing my arm. I never want to do that again. Please do not ask me to do that again.”
- No Phone Day participant Pinky, age 10, Deltona, … - Signs Of AI
There is a very interesting remark in an article Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson at edge.org: For 30 years I have been wondering, what indication of its existence might we expect from …
- Pasteurs Quadrant
Recently I heard in a talk about research and innovation about Pasteur’s Quadrant, which is also the title of a book by Donald E. Stokes [1].
It puts different types of innovation and research along the two dimensions:Quest for fundamental …
- Long Now Foundation
The Long Now Foundation was founded by some rather famous people thinking that our time increasingly is concerned with short-term things anymore: politicians on election or polling cycles, industry in quarterly numbers, human …
- Artbots
Interesting website with many fascinating robots being/creating art.ArtBots2005
- Greg Egan: Luminous
I have to admit upfront that I am a big fan of Greg Egan – I think he is one of the best writers of hard science fiction. This book contains 10 stories, I can see most of them as …
- Human Color Vision And Daytime Sky
Recently I found this article answering the famous question ‘Why is the sky blue’ a bit different and deeper than I read before. In physics the usual explanation is that the Rayleigh scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power …
- Do-It-Yourself Security Inspection
Source: http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/reports/markhoekstra-030805/DSC04345.JPG
- Bad Security Device
Very nice example of a security device, which was not completely thought through …
Source http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg,
pointed out by Peter G. Neumann in comp.risks (see … - Clean Desk
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? – Laurence J. Peter… and I know companies which have a …
- Rebecca Goldstein: Gödel and the nature of mathematical truth
Insightful article – new for me that Gödels incompleteness theorem actually makes a point for a mathematical reality outside of human environment (since it shows that there are true statements, which cannot formally proved).
Also interesting that therefore the effect his … - Evolution And Intelligent Design
“Intelligent Design and Science”I liked the statements cited in the Boston Globe, August 8, 2005:”Intelligent design” boils down to the claim sarcastically summed up by aerospace engineer and science consultant Rand …
- Physics Vs Computers
When I moved from physics to computers, I thought a fundamental difference is that in computers you can have a fundamentally deeper understanding of everything which happens in them – because you constructed them and could (at least in …
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