No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Tweet by rgarner
2015.02.10 – 10:52
The last twenty years building the web no-one asked for in two wireframes pic.twitter.com/dwO97ZADN0 — Russell Garner (@rgarner) February 10, 2015 via https://twitter.com/rgarner
Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence | TED talk
2015.02.10 – 00:38
Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence | TED talk “Is there an equation for intelligence? Yes. It’s F = T ∇ Sτ. In a fascinating and informative talk, physicist and computer scientist Alex Wissner-Gross explains what in the world that means.”
Haidt, Capitalism, and Three-Axis Narratives
2015.02.09 – 18:01
Haidt, Capitalism, and Three-Axis Narratives from: February 9, 2015 at 05:46PM
Do Time and Space Exist at the Smallest Scales? — Medium
2015.02.09 – 16:55
Do Time and Space Exist at the Smallest Scales? — Medium “Physicists Ahmed Farag Ali, Mir Faizal, and Barun Majumder believe that these theories can be used to explain away the aforementioned black hole conundrums — both your controversial spaghettification and the information paradox. How? According to DSR and gravity’s rainbow, in regions smaller than 1.6 x […]
Tweet by monkbent
2015.02.09 – 10:10
So, this is pretty much one of the best essays you'll ever read about a video game (i.e. it's not about the game) http://t.co/xPvNcdIYqC — Ben Thompson (@monkbent) February 9, 2015 via https://twitter.com/monkbent
Tweet by levynews
2015.02.08 – 20:47
@elonmusk yeah, well I'm at toy safari with my 2-year old. — Ari Levy (@levynews) February 8, 2015 via https://twitter.com/levynews
Replacing Middle Management with APIs
2015.02.08 – 13:04
Replacing Middle Management with APIs “Drivers are opting into a dichotomous workforce: the worker bees below the software layer have no opportunity for on-the-job training that advances their career, and compassionate social connections don’t pierce the software layer either. The skills they develop in driving are not an investment in their future. Once you introduce […]
How secular family values stack up
2015.02.07 – 20:58
How secular family values stack up “Atheists were almost absent from our prison population as of the late 1990s, comprising less than half of 1% of those behind bars, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics. This echoes what the criminology field has documented for more than a century — the unaffiliated and the nonreligious […]
Meet Walter Pitts, the Homeless Genius Who Revolutionized Artificial Intelligence
2015.02.07 – 20:23
Meet Walter Pitts, the Homeless Genius Who Revolutionized Artificial Intelligence “…the experiment with the frogs had shown that a purely logical, purely brain-centered vision of thought had its limits. Nature had chosen the messiness of life over the austerity of logic, a choice Pitts likely could not comprehend. He had no way of knowing that […]
Believing that life is fair makes you a terrible person
2015.02.06 – 16:36
Believing that life is fair makes you a terrible person “Facing the truth – that the world visits violence and poverty and discrimination upon people capriciously, with little regard for what they’ve done to deserve it – is much scarier. Because, if there’s no good explanation for why any specific person is suffering, it’s far […]
The Foolish, Historically Illiterate, Incredible Response to Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Speech
2015.02.06 – 12:41
The Foolish, Historically Illiterate, Incredible Response to Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Speech from: February 6, 2015 at 12:17PM
Metaphors And The Game We Love
2015.02.06 – 12:28
Metaphors And The Game We Love Baseball as metaphor, or not?
How to Watch “Battlestar Galactica”
2015.02.05 – 17:48
How to Watch “Battlestar Galactica” list of skippable episodes
What Makes Stuff Go Viral?
2015.02.05 – 09:27
What Makes Stuff Go Viral? from: February 5, 2015 at 09:14AM
The Trip Treatment
2015.02.03 – 22:06
The Trip Treatment “In Carhart-Harris’s view, a steep price is paid for the achievement of order and ego in the adult mind. “We give up our emotional lability,” he told me, “our ability to be open to surprises, our ability to think flexibly, and our ability to value nature.” The sovereign ego can become a […]
YouTube: Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – BBC Proms 2013 (Stephen Hough : Piano )
2015.02.03 – 19:09
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – BBC Proms 2013 (Stephen Hough : Piano ) MartialVidz
The Subtle Brilliance of ‘Groundhog Day’
2015.02.03 – 18:49
The Subtle Brilliance of ‘Groundhog Day’ “Rachmaninoff takes what was dark, brooding, and melancholy, and transforms it into something beautiful and transcendent, simply by reversing the initial condition, by seeing things from another point of view. This is exactly what Bill Murray’s character does in Groundhog Day. To undo the curse, to achieve nirvana/grace/freedom, Phil […]
Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age
2015.02.03 – 16:09
Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age