The most difficult thing to have is nothing.
The most difficult thing to do is nothing.
The most difficult thing to be is nothing.
Strive anyway.
(2008-03-06)
The sort of people I trust to extrapolate conclusions from data tell me that our universe is 13,730,000,000 years old, give or take 120 million (one percent error). The same universe holds observers who insist it began fewer than 10,000 years ago, just off the mark by six powers of ten, which factor also describes [...]
How will we build artificial intelligence if the need for massive arrays of simultaneous analog sensory and computational networks precludes the use of binary Turing machines? The ubiquity of binary machines in our cache of inventions blinds us to other possibilities.
If we had first evolved as pure Turing machines and then copied our neurophysiology for [...]
I received an email with the note “Very thought provoking. Well worth the read.” and an article titled Humanity Has Been Lied To From the Beginning. It was worth my reading and it provoked me to write.
If you have a few minutes, I invite you to set aside your moral and typographical standards long [...]
Hi. I’m Andy Skelton. Nobody special. I’d like to learn your name and get to know you and I’ll tell you why right now.
It’s often said that you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. I just now realized that I have always arrogantly believed my intuition about people based on a [...]