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Confidence is necessary for great civilisations to flourish. Do you hear those last echoes of Empire? This was filmed in 1969 but Kenneth Clark had grown up in another age—a time when Great Britain’s cultural superiority went unquestioned in many huts … Continue reading
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June 21, 2012
Tagged alphabet, Aryans, Berbers, book of Kells, Celts, Christianity, civilisation, education, erudition, Europe, Franks, Great Britain, hierarchy, history, Howard Zinn, Jutes, Kenneth Clark, language, learning, literacy, logocentrism, Mandarin, Normans, Pects, philosophy, reading, semiotics, society, symbol, we
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from “On Self-Referential Sentences” by Douglas Hofstadter, originally in Scientific American (January 1981), reprinted in Metamagical Themas (1985) via crystilogic (Source: http://amzn.to/Ka9370)
One way to think about quantum operators is as Questions that are asked of a quantum system. Identity operator = “Who are you?” Energy operator = “How much do you weigh?” “What is your spin along the z axis?” and … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, function, happiness, language, mathematics, operator theory, quantum mechanics, statistics, verbss
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I Need A Speech Bubble To Appear Over My Head When I Talk So I Can Diagram the Bayesian Uncertainty In My Statements
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Tagged Bayesian, belief, certainty, faith, hunch, language, logic, mathematics, philosophy, prior, prior distribution, probability, probability distributions, reasoning, statistics, supposition, truth, uncertainty, unsure, validity
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Me Cuesta
I’m a native English speaker. In Spanish class I was wrongly taught that the basic word “costs” translates as costar — so when you’re talking prices with a merchant, you should be saying ¿Cuánto cuesta? Except that’s wrong. When I spent … Continue reading
I learned about Zadeh’s fuzzy logic when I was a graduate student…despite the intrinsic interest of the idea, there didn’t seem to be any really impressive results…. When I first heard about “fuzzy logic” control systems (…about 20 years ago … Continue reading
