Kategorie: Allgemein

There is more than C major.

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Marvin Minsky: Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas

Ulmgeplant.

Unangekündigte Reisepause bis 2018-03-17

Buchland.

Bookland is a fictitious country that exists solely in EAN for the purposes of non-geographically cataloguing books in the otherwise geographically keyed EAN coding system.

Wikipedia: Bookland

Nolume.

The volume of the unit -sphere goes to 0 as grows! A high dimensional unit sphere encloses almost no volume! The volume increases from dimensions one to five, but begins decreasing rapidly toward 0 after dimension six.

Marc Khoury: Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space

Don't hesitate.

This don't seem like the end.
It seems more like a bad beginning.

The Walkabouts: Fuck Your Fear