This piece by Paul Graham has a blindingly obvious take on immigration and yet so many people don’t see it because of their built-in biases, biases that they don’t even know they have. Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In. However, there is a darker side to the piece…
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"To err is human, to forgive divine." — Alexander Pope.
“And the world could use a little less human and a little more divine right now.” is a quote from the following, informative and useful, piece: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-immutable-laws-of-mistakes
Get your debunking hats on…
And I’m not talking about a hat for getting out of bed (“Bunk Bed”… geddit?) There has been a lot of research into cognitive biases in the last years and some of the results can be used to avoid provoking those biases into the wrong conclusions and actions. Check out this little, free, booklet. But remember,… Get your debunking hats on… weiterlesen
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law revisited.
There are four “Clarke’s Laws” and the third of them is: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Now, I have been watching and reading various pro-and-contra postings about medicine with increasing concerns and I think I Arthur C. Clarke’s law can be updated as follows. Any sufficiently advanced technocracy is indistinguishable from religion.… Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law revisited. weiterlesen
The geekiest tech jokes on the internet – TechRepublic
The geekiest tech jokes on the internet – TechRepublic. There are some oldish ones in here but some I hadn’t heard before. I wish I’d thought of this one: I would tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it. Now that’s what I call a tech joke 🙂
xkcd: Nerd Sniping
xkcd: Nerd Sniping. The truck would have got me too. I just realised that i spent longer looking at the onepicture than I did the whole of the rest, and it’s still on my mind. I’m not sure what to think of the fact that a physicist counts less than a mathematician. Is it a… xkcd: Nerd Sniping weiterlesen
xkcd: Future Self
xkcd: Future Self. I love many of the XKCD stuff, so do also buy their Book, What if
Microwaves and Nutrition « Science-Based Medicine
A nice, and useful, analysis of the state of (dis)knowledge of Microwaves and their relative effects on the nutritional value of foodstuffs. Microwaves and Nutrition « Science-Based Medicine.
Die Piraten von Penzance
A very good freind of mine asked me if I’d like to go and see the Pirates of Penzance in German in Germany… Theater Münster – Spielplan > Kalender > Die Piraten von Penzance. Unfortunately, I am allergic to the sound of English songs performed in German. My symptoms aren’t like those of people allergic to apples or to… Die Piraten von Penzance weiterlesen
xkcd: Heartbleed
for a more lighthearted (less bleeding) take on Heartbleed: xkcd: Heartbleed. We’ll be back to clay tablets soon anyway.