Archive for December, 2008

Can computation be the answer? The violation of the second law of thermodynamics

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Stephen Wolfram
Lately I’ve been reading Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science. As you can guess from the title, Wolfram makes a few great remarks about the future and the methods of science.
Traditional science uses mathematics. What mathematics do, is to quantify problems, find regularities and then use equations to describe these regularities. What this [...]

The nature of authority

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

In the latest post we talked about the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos: The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II). Since then, Greece continues to be shocked by riots, protests and various forms of resistance against authority.
Some people even managed to occupy the national tv network, at the same time, that [...]

The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II)

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

One of the first articles I had written was this one: Drugs, Guns, Cops and Tasers. I promised to write part 2 some day. There is not better occasion to write this article, than this one.
In the previous Saturday, on 6/12/08, Alexandros Grigoropoulos was murdered in the greek district of Exarchia in Athens.

Alexandros Grigoropoulos
Since then, [...]

Encefalus update postponed

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Due to various circumstances, the regular update, which the last few months happens every week, will be postponed. I will probably post the new article this Sunday. Read some of the older articles to keep yourself occupied


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