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Category Archives: Rants
Infinity can be a number
Someone I respect and read every day, Seth Goden, came out today with a howler: “infinity is not a number“. This is a very 19th century way of thinking. In fact if somebody says “There are no numbers that …”, … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Rants
Tagged Georg Cantor, infinity, nonstandard analysis, Seth Godin, surreal numbers, why not both?
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For those of us of a certain age, May 4 will never be about Star Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Internal Critics
This is a response to an article from brainpickings, about how our internal critic holds us back from realizing our full potential, and becoming our true selves. This article was first published in the spring of 2016. It resonates with … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics, Rants
Tagged Adam Phillips, brainpickings, meditation, monkey mind, psychology, Sigmund Freud, superego
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Let’s stay safe out there. Outrage is a drug.
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511488de
Faith & Doubt
You have to have both. If you have no faith, you will never shoot for the Moon. If you have no doubt, you will never find out what it takes to get there.
Compromise, and ultimate results
Grant did not compromise with Lee, but demanded unconditional surrender, and today the South is a better place for it, because the cancer at its heart — slavery — was destroyed. MacArthur did not compromise with Hirohito, but demanded unconditional … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Rants
Tagged compromise, debt ceiling, Grant, Hirohito, Lee, MacArthur, Obamacare, shutdown, unconditional surrender
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Mountain Lion Workflow
This is the first post in what I expect to be a series documenting my decision to stop buying Macs after 27 years, and my experiences with Linux instead. Continue reading
Time, and Moore’s Law, march on
I remember when 1 TB was considered the same order of magnitude as the sum total of human knowledge. A few decades later, you can buy it for a hundred bucks.
Time Warner Fail
What is so complicated about showing me my friggin’ bill?