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The mother of a friend lent me this book. I haven’t read much yet, but I’m already blown away. This Douglas Hofstadter guy is brilliant.
May 26th @ 8:32 PM | 0 Comments | TrackbackNotebook stream of consciousness
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This is an “open movie” created by the Blender people using Blender and other open source software.
Crazy stuff result when you put 3D mathematicians together with programmers and artists…
May 25th @ 10:22 PM | 0 Comments | TrackbackThe further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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May 25th @ 9:27 PM
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Einstein’s view of religion is really interesting. Richard Dawkins talks a lot about it in The God Delusion
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This visualization of braindump data is the result of 25 lines of python, using the awesome Graph library from NodeBox. It pulls in the data using BQL over XML-RPC, and graphs it out. Pretty cool, huh?
May 24th @ 6:49 PM | 0 Comments | Trackback