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Showing posts with label meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meaning. Show all posts
Friday, August 31, 2018

Katharine Jenkins — Can a woman have a penis? How to understand disagreements about gender recognition

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Ok, the title is clickbait. But, uncharacteristically of clickbait the article is about much more and it is important. The point is th...
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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Jason Smith — One purpose of information theory

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Unfortunately, Shannon's entropy, often referred to as information entropy, and then shortened to just information, is often confused w...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Lord Keynes — The Left needs to abandon Postmodernism

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It is high time that the Left dispensed with and put an end to the fashionable nonsense that is Postmodernism (or “ Poststructuralism ” as...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

Perceived Injustices Are Meaningless Without Context ... Surviving Reality Requires Continuous Exploration of Response Options

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(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.) Injustice? "If the wealth of the world's 5 richest families was confiscated no hum...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Keeping Up With FULL Context: OpenSourced Hardware AND Software As One Key To Distributed OBT&E

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) NVIDIA Unveils First Mobile Supercomputer for Embedded Systems I wonder if ARM licensees ca...
Friday, January 31, 2014

The Campaign to Neuter Our Fiat

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   (Commentary by Roger Erickson) Neuter our Fiat? May the gods, universe and our own MiddleClass please take pity upon these sad peop...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

David Glasner — Two Cheers (Well, Maybe Only One and a Half) for Falsificationism

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Philosophy of science. Mostly on Popper v. Logical Positivism. Good comments, too. Uneasy Money Two Cheers (Well, Maybe Only One and a Half)...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

"Why-Fidelity" Always Matters More Than All Tactical Information Combined. We need Why-Fi hotspots far more than just Wi-Fi.

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Commentary by Roger Erickson Why is it that we don't know that? :( Google Knows Every Wi-Fi Password in the World? Should we pani...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Umair Haque — Making the Choice Between Money and Meaning

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You and I face the difficult choice of trading meaning for money; we weigh the searing moments of real human accomplishment against the sou...
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