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Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go
They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments
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April 9 2012, 4:38am | Comments
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Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language

March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments
Bookmark Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing…

March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments
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The return of art manifestos

February 23 2012, 4:05am | Comments
Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles
Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments
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February 1 2012, 9:46pm | Comments
Bookmark The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and…

December 22 2011, 12:24pm | Comments
Portfolio Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island

December 7 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Bookmark Tom McCarthy: My desktop
I must belong to the only generation of writers who've written with all three of inkpen, typewriter and computer. It definitely matters: the technology colours not only the rhythm but the…

November 27 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Bookmark Neuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will: "Human knowledge can’t help itself…
Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists. Now it is attracting the attention of neuroscience, explains…

November 23 2011, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark The King of Human Error
The paper that resulted five years later, the abovementioned “Prospect Theory,” not only proved that one of the central premises of economics was seriously flawed—the so-called utility theory, “based on elementary…

November 10 2011, 7:36am | Comments
Bookmark The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine -- and against…
As a both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious…

October 8 2011, 10:01am | Comments
Bookmark The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma)
Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained…

September 30 2011, 7:33am | Comments
Bookmark Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and against…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Bookmark The Manichean World of Tim Wu
For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has…

August 18 2011, 1:34am | Comments
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Opinion: Design as law - Edge Magazine

August 15 2011, 7:38am | Comments
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Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan Press

August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Bookmark Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft: Downloading Millions of Academic…
For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron Swartz,…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics
“Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments
Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published
The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Connecting Science and Art: A Conversation
Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration…

April 21 2011, 3:31pm | Comments
Bookmark The Philosophy of Insomnia
Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he who…

April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments
Bookmark Post-Digital Aesthetics and the return to Modernism
What is it that constitutes (a) post-digital art, and how can it be thought in terms of aesthetic theory – or even post-aesthetic theory? In one sense, post-digital(1) refers to works…

February 27 2011, 4:57am | Comments
Bookmark The Men Who Stole the World
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which…

December 1 2010, 4:22am | Comments
Bookmark Boris Groys, Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction
The general consensus of the contemporary mass media is that the return of religion has emerged as the most important factor in global politics and culture today. Now, those who currently…

October 17 2010, 12:22pm | Comments
Bookmark The Off-Modern Mirror
by Svetlana Boym Critic and writer Viktor Shklovsky proposes the figure of the knight’s move in chess that follows “the tortured road of the brave,” preferring it to the master-slave dialectics…

October 13 2010, 9:49am | Comments
Bookmark Lords of the flies: the insect detectives
"So here," says Hall, with suitable drama, "they are: the Ruxton Maggots." Were it not for the maggots, it is pretty safe to say the case of Dr Buck Ruxton, one…

September 23 2010, 1:29am | Comments
Bibliography A Perfect Vacuum by Stanislaw Lem

August 16 2010, 3:43am | Comments

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