Calculation in the hed finding the next square and finding the meen
Calculation in the hed finding the next square and finding the meen
Continue ReadingGood 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 — A Comparison: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-3-apples.html
Continue ReadingReeding 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 seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too…
Continue ReadingVideo 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 a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. Everything is a Remix Part 2 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. Everything is a Remix Part…
Continue ReadingDawkins: “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 ar som sientific ideas that spred not primarily becus of their quality. I am thinking of: e.g.: exesiv focus on peer review, exesiv focus on…
Continue ReadingDennett (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 exists, then x exists. If consciousness depends on complex physical structures, and complex structures depend on large molecules composed of elements heavier than hydrogen and…
Continue ReadingReeding 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 howevr not spent so much time arguing th point. Th reesn is that i got th idea from taking part in a very larj numbr…
Continue ReadingSwartz 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 is also an effective weapon against a particular form of-linguistic sophistry. Thinkers often deceive themselves and others into supposing that they have discovered a profound…
Continue ReadingEbook: My Immortal
My Immortal
Continue ReadingLessWrong: 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 most of it. Enjoy :)
Continue Reading