The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. The Turing Award-winning computer scientist pioneered the field of distributed systems, where multiple components on different networks coordinate to achieve a…
THE SHADOWS
pjshuleski MESQUITE FLAT SAND DUNES - DEATH VALLEY CALIFORNIAAs sundown approaches the delicate sand patterns are revealed.
The World’s First Space Tourist That NASA Doesn’t Want You To Know About
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-worlds-first-space-tourist-that-nasa-doesn-t-want-you-to-know-about-7d7a42ac4e53 NASA hasn’t changed much or has it?
Nabokov and Balthus: The Erotic Imagination
https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/376-nabokov-and-balthus By Jeffrey MeyersI Despite their idiosyncratic characters, the close contemporaries Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) and Balthazar (Balthus) Klossowski (1908-2001) had a surprisingly similar background, life, character, art and career. In…
To End War, We Need to Understand Its Origins, Evolution and Causes
https://blog.michael-lawrence-wilson.com/2022/05/12/%EF%BF%BCto-end-war-we-need-to-understand-its-origins-evolution-and-causes/ Michael L. Wilson and Richard W. Wrangham In a recent opinion piece for Scientific American, John Horgan writes “Ending war won’t be easy, but it should be a moral…
Don’t Hate Your Haters, Leverage Them To Your Advantage
by Greg Satell What can be hardest about change, especially when we feel passionately about it, is that at some point, we need to accept that others will not embrace…
Private Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein – sex and logic
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/18/private-notebooks-1914-1916-by-ludwig-wittgenstein-review-sex-and-logic?fbclid=IwAR0j2epz0tDuzZL0SSVF_oz9ALGj4-lZBdTq3fvVG-QR82UXr6jTFPxJ4A0 Translated into English for the first time, these diaries provide a glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein joined the army the day after his…
Is Social Media Training Us to Please a Machine?
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/21/0128210/is-social-media-training-us-to-please-a-machine A remarkably literary critique of the internet appeared recently in Damage magazine — a project of the nonprofit Society for Psychoanalytic Inquiry funded by the American Psychoanalytic Foundation. “There…