Michele Pasin / Quotes

Bags, sequences and alternatives

There is often a need to describe groups of things: for example, to say that a book was created by several authors, or to list the students in a course, or…

Rdf Primer #properties #order #literals #number

Fate of Christianity

Fate of Christianity.—Christianity arose to lighten the heart, but now it must first make the heart heavy in order to be able to lighten it afterwards…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #heart #Christianity #order

Bitcoin without banks

In traditional banking the banks keep a record of how much money you have. They deal with all the security to make sure people can't claim they have more…

Man Buys $27 Of Bitcoin, Forgets About Them, Finds They're Now Worth $886k | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #computer

Circuit designers chase steep voltage jumps

Circuit designers try to make the voltage jump as fast as possible from Logical Zero to Logical One by making the

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #computer #engineering #bits

Collective intelligence

Intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual minds. It also arises within groups of individuals and this phenomenon can be quite…

What Is Collective Intelligence? - Assembl #collective-intelligence #intelligence #computer #Internet

Computation is in the eye of the beholder

When I add two plus two to get four, that computation is not observer relative. I am doing that regardless of what anybody thinks. But when I punch: ”2+2 =”…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #computation #objectivity #brain #computer