Calculation in the hed finding the next square and finding the meen
Calculation in the hed finding the next square and finding the meen
Good stuff from IG nobel prizes
Clasics can be found here: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/ How to write a scientific paper: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i5/howto.htm Be sure to NOT submit it here: http://www.universalrejection.org/, found via: decision-making.moshe-online.com/asor_ra_2011.pdf (also quite funy) Apples and Oranges…
Reeding material: Peer review, open acces, open sience
For som reeson i started reeding about peer review, and i ended up reeding a lot of interesting articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review Two quotes stand out, copyd from the Criticism section: “There…
Video series: Everything is a remix
A very good series of videos that nicely demonstrate how creativ works/meems ar made from copys of parts of oldr creativ works/meems. Lots of exampls. Enjoy! :) http://www.everythingisaremix.info/ Everything is…
Dawkins: “Viruses of the mind”
If u havnt red it, it is definitly worth reeding: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html Altho i think that Dawkins is rong about th degree to wich sientific ideas show virus-like symtms. Surely, ther…
Dennett (1995) and th modal falacy
“In the "weak form," it is a sound, harmless, and on occasion useful application of elementary logic: if x is a necessary condition for the existence of y, and y…
Reeding material: Meta-filosofy, bad thinking and bad languaj
I hav beleevd for many years that th clarity of one's languaj corelates (both ways) very much with how clearly one thinks, hence th name of my blogs. I hav…
Swartz and Bradley on Janus-faced sentences
Exerpt from Possible Worlds. It is a pees of very useful information. --------- Janus-faced sentences The method of possible-worlds testing is not only an invaluable aid towards resolving ambiguity; it…
LessWrong: Intuitions and Philosophy
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Intuitions_and_Philosophy This is a great series on the role of intuitions in modrn filosofy and how fruitles that aproach is. It is both siens [science] and meta-filosofy. I agree with…