Oh well, here I go again!
_why’s entire online presence and code was presented in the sand mandala that was ‘_why’. The person behind ‘_why’ simply decided to move on and close that portion of his life.
_why’s entire online presence and code was presented in the sand mandala that was ‘_why’. The person behind ‘_why’ simply decided to move on and close that portion of his life.
“ Fools may rush in where angels fear to tread, but angels, in turn, must make leaps of faith that fools cannot even comprehend. ”
The Tragicomic Exasperations of Expertise by Venkatesh Rao
Why don’t we worship Brahma? We know he’s part of the Hindu trinity as the creator, but we worship Vishnu, manager of the cosmos, and Shiva, its eventual destroyer. The answer lies not in religion, but in culture. But in what way does our religion shape our culture?
“ The real issue, in my view, lies in the other direction: why is it that the world seems so replete with colossally wealthy, unimaginative wankers who seem in abject denial of their mortality and whose overriding motivation seems to be directed towards some ego-drenched, self-indulgent drivel that will likely not give them real satisfaction anyway? ”
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. — Albert Einstein
Presentation — Secrets of Simplicity: rules for being simple and usable by Giles Colborne
A very important breakthrough in crypto — “Fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices” by Craig Gentry (ACM Portal). Audio+slides of the same material at a different talk by Gentry. Forbes coverage.
A good explanation from Hal Finney.
The Care and Feeding of Online Relationships (Part 1 of 4) by Eve Maler, Keynote at European Identity Conference 2009. The other parts of the talk is here.
