Faith
I’ve been struggling with my belief in God for the last several weeks, ever since finding Douglas Adams’ speech at Digital Biota 2. Basically, he claimed that God is a fiction that makes it easier for...
View ArticleHumility
I recently read The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief because it was recommended to me by a retired pastor who is a friend of my wife. Now I recommend it, too. The science is...
View ArticleThe Future of UI is not boring
Scott Berkun’s tangent off John Gruber’s wistful piece about the Apple Newton is flat out wrong. The future of UI is here already, and it is anything but boring. 10/GUI was announced several months...
View ArticleNew MacBook Pro
This is my first blog post from my brand new, shiny unibody MacBook Pro. I like the no-hook lid. I love the trackpad without any buttons. When I was born, the mouse had barely been invented, and now my...
View ArticleThe Matrix
Why is it that people so dislike the sequels to The Matrix? Is it just because they contained so much more dialogue? Or is it that the battle against the system, so passionate in the first movie, was...
View ArticleThe Arrow of Time
I just read an article about the Arrow of Time. The foundation of the author’s discussion was entropy and the observation that it always increases. From a macroscopic perspective, this is reasonable,...
View ArticleThe Sword of Good?
Upon finishing Eliezer Yudkowsky’s The Sword of Good, it weighed heavily on my mind. A couple of hours later, I finally connected all the dots. It was wrong, deeply wrong, but it felt like the author...
View ArticleRationality
While I do enjoy the story, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, when I encountered the sentiment (referring to Aslan from Narnia) that if the Lion existed, we wouldn’t be necessary, I finally...
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Beauty
I code for a living. I code for a hobby. It’s almost to the point where I could say, I code, therefore I am, except that I do have a family A while back, somebody in management, who used to be...
View ArticleAtheism
In previous posts, I’ve touched on the impossibility of proving that God does or does not exist. One implication of this which I have not yet discussed is that Atheism is also a leap of faith. For...
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