Archive for the 'Philosophy' Category

How Law Shapes the Business Landscape, and a Patent Puzzle

• February 11, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in Engineering, Essays, Law, Philosophy, Puzzles


Timelessness

• September 13, 2008 • 12 Comments

Posted in Advice, Engineering, Philosophy, Problem Solving, Programming, Science


Living Things

• August 14, 2008 • 3 Comments

Posted in Advice, Communities, Meta, Philosophy, Poetry, Science


Keeping Prediction Honest

• July 20, 2008 • 13 Comments

Posted in Honesty, Learning, Meta, Philosophy, Science, Self-referential


The Choice of Work

• June 26, 2008 • 25 Comments

Posted in Advice, Essays, Gifted, Learning, Math, Meta, Philosophy, Science


Cosmology in Ten Minutes

• June 8, 2008 • 15 Comments

Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy, Physics, Science


Advice to the Bright and Young

• May 15, 2008 • 10 Comments

Posted in Advice, Gifted, Learning, Meta, Philosophy
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One Response to Rejection

• April 11, 2008 • 19 Comments

Posted in Advice, Meta, Philosophy, Startups, YCombinator


Incompleteness and Halting. Gödel and Turing.

• January 28, 2008 • 5 Comments

Posted in Computability, Logic, Math, Philosophy, Religion


On Outliers: What they represent, and why the Central Limit Theorem is Typically Off.

• January 28, 2008 • 4 Comments

Posted in Finance, Math, Philosophy, Science, Statistics


General Problem Solving Strategies (for programmers)

• January 28, 2008 • 4 Comments

Posted in Advice, Humor, Learning, Philosophy, Problem Solving, Programming


Third Places

• January 28, 2008 • 10 Comments

Posted in Architecture, Philosophy, Urban Studies
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