reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
“Today we have once again out-Wittegensteined these Wittgensteinians: we kept silent.”
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (28%)
From the winner of the Turing Award and the Abel Prize, an introduction to computational …
Congrats to Avi Wigderson on winning this years Turing Award
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
Intending to become an engineer, he had traveled to Manchester, England, in 1908, at age nineteen, to work at an aeronautical research station where he hoped to design and build his own airplane. It was there that his growing interest in mathematics led him to the discovery of Russell’s Principia Mathematica. With the passion of a convert, he set out for Cambridge, impetuously introduced himself to Russell, and announced his intention to make philosophy his life’s work—if he could.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (26%)
This quote is about Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will help …
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
Leo Szilard, who discovered the nuclear chain reaction in the 1930s, recalled the Budapest of his youth as a society where economic security was taken for granted, and the highest value placed on intellectual achievement.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 27)
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases …
