Category: Knowledge
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Ancient myths, knowledge, gems...
Knowledge is earned difficultly. Through the ages, humans conquer parts of the truth. And along the way, useless and redundant pieces of "knowledge" are accumulated. The great filter of Time is what distinguishes true knowledge from illusions of truth. What remains after after thousands of years is what one must hold on to. The most…
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Aaron, MIT, JSTOR, "free" knowledge...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has launched an internal investigation into the school’s involvement in the suicide of 26-year-old computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz, MIT’s president L. Rafael Reif said Sunday. Swartz was accused of breaking into MIT’s computer system in order to access academic articles and make them available for free on…
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Ban Wikipedia. Improve Internet.
I was recently trying to find out some details about Mercedes S600. When I wrote "Mercedes S600" in a search engine, Wikipedia page popped up first. The Mercedes corporate page was nowhere to be found! I tried another search engine with the same result! Can this really happen?!?!? Ban Wikipedia from ALL search results NOW!…
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Wins, losses, learning...
Be grateful for your defeats. No one learned from his victories...
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Why "antitheseis" exists.
The world is full of things which are in "anti-thesis" (Gr. αντίθεση) with each other. And this results in some antiphasis (Gr. αντιφάσεις) which cannot be resolved and buffle us. But why should antithesis exist in the first place? The reason is simple: Our senses and our model of thinking is based on them. Without…
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