Man In God’s Image In the book of Genesis, we are told that God made man in his image. There are plenty of different interpretations of what this means. There is obvious and naive interpretation that we look like him. This is not believed by any serious scholar. Another interpretation is […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Alien Fermi DNA Strategy
Quick Cooker Recently I bought a pressure cooker. It’s pretty cool for two reasons, but it does have on major drawback. You can cook things quickly and it’s pretty much set and forget. I have a friend whose side business is growing marijuana. Pot Growing Genius https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept01Loop.mp4 But he has a […]
Brain Replication and Creation
Genetically Programmed Builders Ants, beavers and bees all have one thing in common. They are genetically programmed to come into this world, take raw materials from their environment and turn those raw materials into complex functioning homes. If you went back in time a million years, you’d see bees and beaver and ants busily […]
Protecting Market Share
Small And Hungry It’s a common phenomenon for small companies with zero market share to take a ton of risk. Since they don’t have anything to lose, and everything to gain, this makes perfect sense. Then as they slowly claw some market share and customers away from other more established, existing companies, they shift slightly. […]
Born With Knowledge
Child Prodigies The other night I watched an interesting TV show about child prodigies they had all these kids that were 5,6,4 that could do all these really interesting things. The most interesting kid was this boy who was four years old. He can name all of the presidents in order. If you gave […]
Magic Love Money Algorithm
Library Trip The other day I went to my local library for a visit. I like to drop by sometimes because I like books and I like quiet spaces. Except when I went into the library there was some kind of a commotion. Not commotion more of a gathering. I eased up to the […]
Brothels And Assassins
New Neighbors I noticed recently that I have some squatters living next door to me. I have mixed feelings about it. They’re very quiet, and I can tell they’re squatters because they burn candles at night. They don’t use any electricity. They’re not loud. I don’t feel in danger. I don’t ever see any […]
Imaginary Cruise Psychic
Loud Mouth Intelligence I used to work with this guy a long time ago, back when I worked for a very very large engineering company. This guy, when you first met him, you would assume that he was this kind of an alpha bad boy type of person that wasn’t very intelligent. He was kind […]