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Herbert Simon
It’s been twenty years since the death of Herb Simon. See Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Artificial intelligenceBounded RationalityHerbert Simonsatisficing
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (40)
Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty. I doubt whether you would know that St. Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his students with their styli. His death, a martyr’s honorable one, made him a patron saint of teachers. Pray to him, you deluded fool, you…
The Divided Brain
Entertaining conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Sam Harris. Cognitive scienceconsciousnessIain McGilchristneurosciencePhilosophy of mindsam harris
Earl King: Poet Laureate of New Orleans
Top-notch music journalism from Geoffrey Himes commemorating the birth of Earl King. The article is populated by the equally excellent Michael Smith photographs. He was living proof that an active, well-stocked mind doesn’t always come with scholarly credentials. “A lot of New Orleans records didn’t have enough bass on them,” King asserted. “You’ve got to…
Friendship with God as an Ultimate Ideal in the Writings of Philo of Alexandria
Here’s a just published open access article in AUC Theologica. friendshiphellenismMarkéta Dudzikováphilo of alexandriaphilosophical theology
Hadrian the Seventh: extracts (7)
Then I began to write, simply because of the imperious necessity of expressing myself. And I had much to say. Note please that I asked nothing better than to be a humble chantry-priest, saying Mass for the dead. It was denied me. I turned to express beautiful and holy ideals on canvas. Again I was…
Heart Full of Rhythm
Finally received my copy. As I’ve come to expect from Ricky, it reads beautifully, is meticulously researched and sensitive topics are handled with aplomb. JazzLouis ArmstrongmusicRicky Riccardi
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (39)
As a lecturer Dr. Talc was renowned for the facile and sarcastic wit and easily digested generalizations that made him popular among the girl students and helped to conceal his lack of knowledge about almost everything in general and British history in particular. a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
Sleep behavior assessment via smartwatch and stigmergic receptive fields
I mentioned this paper when it first came out a few years back. As we’ve put it before, stigmergic behaviour can be found from ants to economies. As someone with an overlapping interest in both stigmergy and sleep disorder, this technology seems very promising since it’s infinitely less intrusive than the clumsy and high-priced devices…
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