Unenumerated

In most political theories and ideologies, there is a preposterous oversimplification about what kinds of political relationships are desira...

Perhaps the most underrated invention in history is the humble hourglass.  Invented in Europe during the late 13th or early 14th century, th...

In my last post I introduced dead reckoning as used during the exploration explosion. In this post I will describe the errors these explore...

Navigation is the art or science of combining information and reducing error to keep oneself on, or return oneself to, a route that will ge...

Argument from authority ("I'm the expert") goes hand-in-hand with the ad hominem ("you're not"). Each may be re...

G.K. Chesterton ponders a fence: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple princip...

From Algorithmic Information Theory: Charles Bennett has discovered an objective measurement for sophistication. An example of sophisticatio...

Besides the robot apocalypse, there are many other, and often more important, examples of Pascal scams.   The following may be or may have b...

Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that ...

Perhaps I should take up Twitter, but I already have this blog, and even my short takes tend to go a bit over 140 characters. So here goes: ...

During my blog absence, I've been studying, designing, and implementing a style of programming I call temporal programming . It is use...