Friday, December 24, 2010

Some Notes on the Material Circumstances of an Inspired Idea

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Editor's note: this a strange thing to write down, it's true, but I always think back to George Polya's comments in his clever l...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

If Technology Is Cheap, Why Is Prosperity So Expensive?

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Cockroaches and pigeons seem to do quite well for themselves. Any visit to an urban center of appreciable size should be sufficient to conf...
Friday, June 4, 2010

Barbarians on the Shore

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Old Archbishop Dom Gregory Diamare, the abbot [of Monte Cassino], talking one day to [Count] Gavronski about the barbarism into which Europe...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Not-Understanding Perceptron, and the Grim Shadow of the "Average Man"

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... and if you're too intelligent they'll cut you down to size; they'll praise you till you're happy, then they'll fill ...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Implications of Universality for Computer Security

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"In the United States (U.S.), we have items available for all our needs. Many of these items are cheap and easy to replace when damage...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

"The Best Kind of Student Goes and Practices It Assiduously"

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Lao Tzu said that when the best kind of student hears about the Way, he goes and practices is assiduously; when the worst kind of student he...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

All Computation Is Effectful

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I had the fortunate opportunity to attend ACM's Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) '09 earlier this year, inclu...