Found this article which goes into a little more depth on this obscure mathematical comment by Winston Churchill about a moment when his life changed. I still consider it to be one of the deeper insights into the true nature of infinity. I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it […]
A boatload of cool JavaScript animation widgets for you web designery types out there.
Well this is just delightful. There are enough tips and tricks on this single website to keep a web designer happy for a long time. Thoroughly enjoying trying to get impress.js working in a site that I'm working on. Delicious crumb here: https://1stwebdesigner.com/css-effects/ […]
Installing FreedomBox inside VirtualBox on a Windows Virtual Machine with a dedicated IP
Normally when installing FreedomBox inside VirtualBox, you can use Bridged Mode and get on with things, but you can't use bridged mode when installing a VirtualBox image running on a VM with a dedicated IP address. This is because bridged mode requires DHCP which you don't have in this scenario. You […]
Kabbalah provides a clue to solving the Cosmological Constant Problem
A clue to resolving what is "likely the most difficult problem facing physicists" for the past few decades appears to be buried in the kabbalah. For those who are not entirely familiar with the Cosmological Constant Problem, here is an excellent article published today talking about it: […]
God is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere
Introduction This article contains a long list of several dozen quotations centered around the theme "the infinite sphere whose center is everywhere." Many others have gathered similar lists of this quotation over the centuries. As far as I am aware this present list is the most extensive […]
My 2 cents on blockchain as I slowly understand the trust bit
Blockchain is not "just another database." Or even "a decentralized database." It is more, because it enables two people to trust each other without relying on a third party. It took me a while to realize how important and revolutionary that is, so... here is my brief intro to […]
Something from Nothing or Nothing from Something?
Hebrew mysticism, in a typically non-binary manner, answers the question of Something from Nothing vs Nothing from Something with "Both, depending on your perspective." Ayin is closely associated with the Ein Sof (Hebrew ??? ???, meaning "no end", "without an end" ), […]
On the Art of Approaching Math and Quantum Physics from a Child's Perspective
Originally written in fits and starts from 2015-2019 In unexperienced infancy Many a sweet mistake doth lie: Mistake though false, intending true; A seeming somewhat more than view; That doth instruct the mind In things that lie behind, And many secrets to us show Which afterwards we come to know. […]
Shallow Christians don't admire Reinhold Niebuhr
I confess I had no idea what Reinhold Niebuhr's position was until I was puzzled by the following citation where Obama describes him as one of his favorite philosophers during an interview with David Brooks (it might help to know this was pre-president Obama, back when he was the idealist who hadn't […]
When Dividing the Singularity You Risk Dividing Forever
The Primordial Singularity is clearly very large, for it encompasses our universe, which is very large -- currently unmeasurably so. Yet it has the nature of perfect, instantaneous communication: when something happens on one "end" of its immensity, the information is communicated […]
Ternary entropy?
Need to think about this one for a while, I think the author is onto something, but I need to understand entropy a little better before I can assess this: When we're working with binary states entropy isn't a 1 or a 0. Its definition is instead related to the amount of information we can hold versus […]
Let's stop banging photons into things in order to measure them
The guy offscreen arguing with the professor in the last couple minutes of the video is making a point I've contemplated many times. I'll paraphrase: "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is not a statement about the intrinsic nature of quantum mechanical things (as it is commonly presented), […]
AI data economies on the blockchain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms_1TZL-Z48 https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/23/why-you-want-blockchain-based-ai-even-if-you-dont-know-it-yet/ https://oceanprotocol.com/
Monty Hall, Erdos, and... Ego?
It took me a long time to figure out the Monty Hall problem. I was relieved to discover it also took Erdos a long time, and most others. After much stumpification, I found this thread and finally got it: The exact wording of the problem can change the answer. For example, in this version There are […]
Math vs real world transition is similar to single machine vs networked
When moving from the artificially perfect world of (excluded-middle) mathematics back into the real world, we encounter significant changes to our expectations for how things work. Or, as seen from the other directions, pure math feels "liberating" because we don't have to worry about all […]
Hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UMyTnlaMY
On the delightful coherence and simultaneous incoherence of epiphanies
Woke up early this morning and in the world between worlds where some of the best insights come into view, I discovered one of the greater epiphanies of my decades-long study of ternary logic, infinity, zero, and world peace. I was striding through the fields of pure light and clarity -- the miracle […]
On learning how to see ternary logic with ternary eyes instead of binary
It required several years of studying ternary logic -- which at that time I still called trinary -- before I began to glimpse a realization that the way we understand ternary is with a profoundly binary lens. In those early glimpses, I began to understand that even the people who discovered ternary […]
On discovering my thoughts have a hint of Informational Structural Realism in them
Well this is interesting. After I wrote the post talking about a way of perceiving that was beyond quantum, I discover that there is in my thoughts plenty of similarity with an existing idea called "Informational Structural Realism." The original article by Luciano Floridi is […]
For informational ontology instead of against digital ontology?
We must be careful that we do not mistake artifacts of the tools we use to investigate ontology with the ontology itself. For example, we all understand now how the Ptolemaic model of the universe was us projecting our egos outward on Nature and inventing epicycles to explain things so that we […]