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9GAG - What the fun (via ffffound!)
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Seat Savers -- Marginal Revolution
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Pop culture controls you even if you think you’re separate from it. It is everywhere, from the clothes you wear to the language you use to the way you think. It is a viral pandemic that masks infection by pretending to be part of you. There’s no cure. But if you know the structure of the virus, at least you can recognize the infection as not-you.
“No way, I’m not getting infected, I’m not exposing myself to all that trash. I’m going to think for myself.”
That’s the virus talking.
“Usually, they are problems in computer science that don’t feel well specified enough for the rest of the computer science community to want to work on. For instance, compilers used to be considered AI, because you were writing down statements in a high-level language; and how could a computer possibly understand that stuff? Well, you had to do work to make a computer understand the high-level language and that was taken to be AI. Now that we understand compilers and there’s a theory of how to build compilers and lots of compilers are out there, well, it’s not AI any more. So, AI people have a chip on their shoulders that when they finally get something working it gets co-opted by some other part of the field. So, by definition, no AI ever works; if it works, it’s not AI.” — MIT OpenCourseWare, Techniques in Artificial Intelligence
“The original aim of this article was to demystify the incompleteness theorem of Gödel and the truth-definition theory of Tarski by showing that both are consequences of some very simple algebra in the cartesian-closed setting. It was always hard for many to comprehend how Cantor’s mathematical theorem could be re-christened as a “paradox” by Russell and how Gödel’s theorem could be so often declared to be the most significant result of the 20th century. There was always the suspicion among scientists that such extra-mathematical publicity movements concealed an agenda for re-establishing belief as a substitute for science. Now, one hundred years after Gödel’s birth, the organized attempts to harness his great mathematical work to such an agenda have become explicit.” — F. William Lawvere, Diagonal arguments and cartesian closed categories (2000) (ref. credit: Todd and Vishal’s Blog)
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose…only then will you learn the game.” — Winston Churchill (via theimpossiblecool)
Neave Television ...telly without context
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As an aesthetic principle, quirk is an embrace of the odd against the blandly mainstream. It features mannered ingenuousness, an embrace of small moments, narrative randomness, situationally amusing but not hilarious character juxtapositions (on HBO’s recent indie-cred comedy Flight of the Conchords, the titular folk-rock duo have one fan), and unexplainable but nonetheless charming character traits. Quirk takes not mattering very seriously.
Quirk is odd, but not too odd. That would take us all the way to weird, and there someone might get hurt.
My Little Klingon Pony (ht kipperfrog)