January 2010
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Don Quixote (1933) with famous Russian singer Feodor Chaliapin starring. Could not imagine it existed!
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“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything”
– Henri Poincare (via wildcat2030)
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“Maybe the Singularity happened years ago. We just don’t want to admit we...”
– Peter Watts, Blindsight.
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“When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask...”
– Gerald Durrell (via nihilnoetia)
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Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can... →
Nifty generalization, sounds completely logical to me from the point of common sense… You can't study the system and be part of it at the same time without changing its properties, after all, because studying is interaction and interaction is change. I have to mention, though, that Gödel and Turing do have one assumption, though: the human logic. Theoretically, we can imagine that...
Jan 6th
Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the... →
Nice article. A somewhat funny mention of Kurchatov Institute engaged in this work: "Founded by another Alvin — American nuclear physicist Alvin Radkowsky — Thorium Power, since renamed Lightbridge, is attempting to commercialize technology that will replace uranium with thorium in conventional reactors. From 1950 to 1972, Radkowsky headed the team that designed reactors to power Navy ships...
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