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• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

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  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

  June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

  The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit sequel…

  May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People

  We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined…

  February 21 2011, 1:23am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life

  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of Science

  Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of…

  September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark The most isolated man on the planet

  He's an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he's the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for a…

  August 30 2010, 8:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of the Coded World

  In an influential article in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, Joshua Gold of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Shadlen of the University of Washington sum up experiments aimed at discovering…

  August 11 2010, 3:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Tumblr Uranium Ore

  July 19 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify…

  In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for…

  June 12 2010, 9:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

  May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Outer Limits

  In April 1965, a young researcher named Gordon Moore wrote a short article for the now-defunct Electronics Magazine pointing out that each year, the number of transistors that could be economically…

  December 16 2009, 5:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How we read: an investigation

  A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

  November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

  June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

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• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

  March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Trials and Errors: The limits of reductionism & why science fails us

  This mental approach to causality is often effective, which is why it’s so deeply embedded in the brain. However, those same shortcuts get us into serious trouble in the modern world…

  December 20 2011, 4:31am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

  June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

  The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit sequel…

  May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

• Bookmark Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People

  We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined…

  February 21 2011, 1:23am | Comments

• Bookmark John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality

  How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…

  January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments

• Bookmark Purpose-Driven Life

  Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…

  October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of Science

  Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of…

  September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark The most isolated man on the planet

  He's an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he's the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for a…

  August 30 2010, 8:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Limits of the Coded World

  In an influential article in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, Joshua Gold of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Shadlen of the University of Washington sum up experiments aimed at discovering…

  August 11 2010, 3:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Rancière’s Ignoramus

  July 26 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Tumblr Uranium Ore

  July 19 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

  July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

  June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify…

  In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for…

  June 12 2010, 9:18am | Comments

• Bookmark Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites

  Scientists today who study polar sea ice conditions rely on satellite records reaching back to 1979. But soon, data scientists hope to extend the look back by another decade or more.…

  May 29 2010, 9:51am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Raising Neanderthals: Metaphysics at the Limits of Science

  March 21 2010, 10:30pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Outer Limits

  In April 1965, a young researcher named Gordon Moore wrote a short article for the now-defunct Electronics Magazine pointing out that each year, the number of transistors that could be economically…

  December 16 2009, 5:05pm | Comments

• Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

  November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

• Bookmark How we read: an investigation

  A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural…

  November 23 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Bookmark IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

  Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris is…

  November 13 2009, 4:22pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

  June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

• Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

  May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

  May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

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