hackandthink

"that allows the machine to transcend the classical limits of computation" The Crackpot index is still low. Anyway it is a good read.

"How could they allow this to go on?"

I read Tim Weiner's first CIA book and expect something similar. You learn a lot about the obvious and well-known mistakes and crimes. But I lack the basic sympathy for these organizations, if th…

The last minutes: I find it disturbing that Stephen Kotkin is so afraid of a third world war (USA/China). I hope it's not based on inside information.

Just for fun, monads as modalities is missing: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Agda-2.6.4.2/docs/Agda-S... …

A really likeable person. GEB was highly regarded in my peer group. I should have read it more naively myself. But this interview makes me want to read "I am a strange loop". https:/&#…

"Grothendieck conjectured that the infinity groupoid captures all information about a topological space up to weak homotopy equivalence" The homotopy hypothesis has something mystical about …

Research Objective: "Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy?" ISSP Data (immigration, welfare attitudes) for 17 countries. 73 independent research teams come to differen…

"Having tried and failed to negotiate a suitable treaty of alliance with the British and French, and fearing an Anglo-French design of involving them in a war with Germany which they would have t…

This is a hornet nest. I once read this from Alain Badiou: "This separatism at certain moments reached extremes that no one could forget, particularly not the Russian people, knowing that the vas…

This is Nazi talk. That was the actual Nazi plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan The differentiation between Ukraine and Russia is interesting. Ukrainian nationalists …

The political situation in the 1930s was thoroughly messed up. Britain and France may have had mainly good intentions, but their policies did not prevent the disasters. Great Britain should have made …