We believe in a compressible Universe
"Believe" is often associated with religion. However, even for using the "scientific method", we are forced to assume certain qualities of the Universe that we cannot prove nor fully verify. The most...
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Two ways to pursue happiness
Intelligent people learn to adapt to environment, unintelligent people adapt environment to them (popular joke) 1. Change the outside Few people can be happy when basic needs are not met. When you a...
Bose QuietComfort 15 / 25 / QC35 / QC45 vs Sennheiser MM 550-X
Better read:Data Consistency in Distributed System - CAP, PACELCMorality series - a heptalogyThis blog is mainly focused on my Philosophical and theoretical ideas.From time to time I have practical po...
Noise cancellation headphones - "how it works?"
"Noise cancellation" is a feature in recent high-end headphones that aims to actively remove the outside noise while listening music. You can also use them without music, however the efficiency is low...
Music and mathematics
In a temperate musical octave, there are 12 possible sounds. However, in a certain melody, usually, only 7 of them are used. When you see, for example, "Symphony...in Do major", you should expect that...
On morality applied to animals
Studies on babies suggests that there is a certain morality sense we are birth with. Of course, this instinct must be developed and refined by society. It is, however, unlikely that our moral rules ca...
Morality derived from space colonization
I claim that most of the modern moral problems can be translated into "does this increases the likelihood of space colonization for humans?" This covers both traditional religious-based moral and more...
On vaccination - should be a choice
I think that nobody should be coerced to vaccinate, himself or his child. I vaccinated my child because I considered that it is better like this. However, each person should have the right to choose f...
Smartphones and the conscience of humankind
I watch my photo archive and I realize that my memory does not recall a lot of things. Even photos from couple of years back seems like pictures of events that happened to someone else. I remember whe...
The mating algorithm
We have a population of animals. Each individual can be associated with a certain "value", expressing his "fit level to the environment". We want to design a simple algorithm in the animal's genes tha...