The Long Note

by Dushan on June 29, 2009

Since my youth, one of the greatest pleasures I know is listening to The Long Note in Gary Moore’s Parisienne Walkways.

(In this video at 2:35.)

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Stupid By Choice

June 22, 2009

There is a time to be smart. And there is a time to be stupid.
When laying out the blueprint for a new project, it might be smarter to be stupid by choice.
Stupid people have some real advantages over smart people (and more so over people who are aware or even proud of their mental skills). [...]

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1thing_2sides

June 18, 2009
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Can Computers Quarrel?

June 17, 2009

“What if…?”
If studying philosophy taught me anything, it is to ask questions beginning with “what if”. (tags: thought_experiment, counterfactual_assumption)
So I ask: What if websites talked to websites–and nobody were there to listen?
“Websites talking to websites” isn’t that absurd an assumption. They talk all the time. View any website that embeds a Google Map and you [...]

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Strong, Fast & Clueless

February 10, 2009

My professor has dedicated a considerable part of his academic work to epistemology and its neighboring disciplines. As you might know, epistemology is the philosophical debate on the subject of knowledge.
While most sciences ask something along the lines of “what do we know about x” and “how can we maximize our knowledge of x”, philosophical [...]

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