A quote by C.S.Peirce.

I have not realized that he was a panpsychist. The most natural (although not the only) interpretation of this quote is that awareness is universal, and that matter comes as a result of "particles of mind" forming patterns due to "habit". I like this model.

http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2010/10/singularity-institutes-scary-idea-and.html

Is this the programming environment I was dreaming about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_language%29

Три стандартные книжки MIT-шных студентов-алгоритмистов ( Read more... )

I was running an experiment since the New Year trying my own custom slow weight-loss method (with the idea of reversing a slow weight-gain long term trend, and achieving a slow weight-loss long term trend). I finally achieved the milestone I've set to myself 5 months ago (going down back to the local minimum reached in September 2008 by losing 12 ( Read more... )

Бостон и окрестности (включая Кэйп Код) наполнены дымом, вроде бы, от канадских пожаров, пахнет гарью ( Read more... )

I'll be placing the references to systems equipped with non-commutative conjunctions in comments to this post; mostly, this will be about generalized equalities valued in quantalesThe context here is that there is a duality between metric and logical viewpoints ( Read more... )

Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics 2010
Paris, France, July 5-10, 2010

http://cicm2010.cnam.fr/

I am trying to figure out whether I should go there, so I'll be going through the program and noting parts which attract my interest in comments to this post.

http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mfps/mfps26/Titles_and_Abstracts.htmlRead more... )

Its Wi-Fi seems to be too powerful..

( according to Schubert )