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...
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...
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...
Shortest program that prints the play "Othello" by William Shakespeare
We have this requirement: "Create the smallest program that will print the full text of the play Othello by William Shakespeare". I should warn you that the requirement hides a trick and you will hate...
Sorting is computationally harder than playing chess
I will argue below that sorting of a big array, using only comparison, is inherently harder than solving the problem of choosing the best next move on a chess game. One could say that it is not fair t...
DNA and the fabric of the Universe
The genetic code seems to not be enough to describe the complexity of a human being. In fact, it seems too small to describe most of the life forms. We could assume that the genetic code has all the i...
Genetic code (DNA) is not enough
Photo: wikipedia.org Genetic code (DNA) could be seen as the best compression algorithm that we have ever seen. Just think about it: in only around 1 GBytes, DNA could store the information to create...
The meaning of music
The meaning of music is hard to capture in words. Let's try some ideas anyway! The brain bug The brain has a natural ability to extract patterns from all the stimulus. It's a fact that we like the mus...