The late Kurt Richebächer opined that, “Capital and wealth increases when a community produces more than it consumes. Capital and wealth decreases when the community consumes more than it produces. What is happening in the United States is the latter - with the consequences of general…

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 Bertrand Russell Share this: Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1950 Listen to an Audio Recording of Bertrand Russell's Nobel Lecture Paragraph 1, 2 min. Play To hear the recording you need Adobe Flash Player Copyright © Svenska Akademien…

This is a story about stories, is the thing. Not about how they help us make sense of loss, or about how they’re the repository of our humanity, or any of that, but about the nightmare of them, the way they never tell the whole truth but bind us as if they did. Half the time when we think we’re…

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The point is that to understand human cognition, it is a mistake to focus only on what goes on inside the skull, because our abilities are highly “scaffolded” by environmental props—by technologies and cultural practices, which become an integral part of our cognitive system.

The most unnerving and scary belief of the Malthusians is that the incredible qualities of fossil fuels can never be remotely equaled by alternatives: take 10 tons of algae and other useful material and cook it for 500 million years and you will have 1 gallon of oil. Not easy to duplicate and an…

HTML email is, without doubt, evidence of the imminent end of civilized life as we know it; much like the Golgafrincham diaspora, it is attributable to a depraved cabal of marketing consultants and provides the same level of social good as syphilis and fistulas. Suffice to say, it is a blight.

In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now…

Consider the growth of Adblock Plus itself. According to a recent report, in January 2010, it had 21 million users. By January 2013, it had grown modestly to 54 million. But just one year later, in January 2014, the number of people using the software had jumped to 121 million. In other words, the…

As we have seen, because an infinite game cannot be brought to an end, it cannot be repeated. Unrepeatability is a characteristic of culture everywhere. Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony cannot be composed again, nor could Rembrandt’s self-portraits be painted twice. Society preserves these works as the…

Photography expresses the American impatience with reality, the taste for activities whose instrumentality is a machine.

After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing any more whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin.

Photographs are, of course, artifacts. But their appeal is that they also seem, in a world littered with photographic relics, to have the status of found objects—unpremeditated slices of the world. Thus, they trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. They are clouds of…

The one-line summary is this: I am very bearish on the problems we humans face and, sadly, very bullish on resources. Not surprising, I am even more convinced than I was a year ago of the inevitability of rising resource prices (and, unfortunately, associated societal and international instability).…

We all know that there is no quicker way to empty a joke of its peculiar magic than to try to explain it—to point out, for example, that Lou Costello is mistaking the proper name Who for the interrogative pronoun who, and so on. And we all know the weird antipathy such explanations arouse in us, a…

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:, "Hairy balls" redirects here. For the mayor of Fort Wayne, see Harry Baals . This article includes a list of references , but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing…

groups. These groups/bins may be spatial, temporal, or otherwise attribute-based. In this post I’m only talking about spatial (long-lat) and 2-dimensional attribute-based (scatterplot) bins. Such binnings may be thought of as 2D histograms. This may make more or less sense after what lies…

Or: privatesquare, ten months later It would be generous to say that privatesquare was ever released . Instead, the source code was made public with a long and twisty blog post and a flurry of screenshots . I’ve told a few people about my installation of privatesquare but since I haven’t had the…

Near A Raven Mike Keith 1995 At the time of its writing in 1995, this composition in Standard Pilish , a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", was one of the longest texts ever written using the π constraint , in which the number of letters in each successive word "spells out" the digits of π…

INTRODUCTION Advertising is the critical financial engine of the Internet. Despite numerous innovations over the past few decades, advertising remains by far the most dominant model supporting an entire ecosystem of professional content creators online. Advertising also drives the platforms that…

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In today's study group, Panos discussed a paper that focuses on Forensic Stylometry, a form of Authorship Attribution. The paper proposes the Classify-Verify method and it can be found at: www.stolerman.net . There are 2 basic categories in Authorship Attribution (AAtr): The Closed World problem and…

PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum Scott Aaronson There are two ways to teach quantum mechanics. The first way -- which for most physicists today is still the only way -- follows the historical order in which the ideas were discovered. So, you start with classical mechanics and electrodynamics, solving lots…

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:, Lighting and reflection calculations (shown here in the first-person shooter OpenArena ) use the fast inverse square root code to compute angles of incidence and reflection. Fast inverse square root (sometimes referred to as Fast InvSqrt() or by the…

In response to numerous comments about "excessive minimalism", Irecently put together a new website for my Tarsnap online backup service ;and since I was reworking things anyway, I decided that it was a goodtime to move to a new web server and generally clean up the systemconfiguration. Among the…

Finding structure in xkcd comics with Latent Dirichlet Allocation xkcd is self-proclaimed as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". There was a recent effort to quantify whether or not these "topics" agree with topics derived from the xkcd text corpus using Latent Dirichlet Allocation…

Abstract There are three formats for arranging English text for vertical reading—upright letters arranged vertically (marquee), and horizontal text rotated 90° clockwise or counterclockwise. Previous research has shown that reading is slower for all three vertical formats than for horizontal text,…

One measure that is being used to summarize the strain in financial markets is the TED spread. This is calculated as the gap between 3-month LIBOR (an average of interest rates offered in the London interbank market for 3-month dollar-denominated loans) and the 3-month Treasury bill rate. The size…