Professional and not so professional notes and thoughts about programming and computers in general.
Pattern recognition and automatic decision making create a foundation for our third activity of explaining (rationalizing) our decisions and whatever we observe – all the time, never pausing. Most of this third activity is done automatically too. Yet some of it we do consciously, sometimes with great effort, trying to “understand” – to discover the […]
A human, even in doubt, finds a way to make a decision, may be based just on the liking the instructor or not. Or on using some kind of moral principles. Or just from sheer compassion. Such irrational decision making apparently was beneficial, since human species managed to survive so far. This means that our […]
The change of the view on the language – from modeling structure to reflecting usage – was the primary motivation for Wittgenstein to write his second book Philosophical Investigations, where he introduced the notion of “language games”. He now states that the meaning of a word or even a sentence comes from the context of […]
Abraham Kaplan made an observation in his book The Conduct of Inquiry (1964): “In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a […]
If we try to talk about inexpressible – which goes beyond the language capacity – like philosophy does, in Wittgenstein’s view – we begin fighting non-existing problems and just waste time. That’s how Wittgenstein was able to claim that he solved all philosophical problems – by dismissing the alleged problems as nonsensical – made-up problems.
He was definitely an authentic and very unusual character. Bertrand Russell considered him a genius. And true to these characteristics, he challenged the philosophy and the way we understand human thinking to its core, on par with Kant, although not all professional philosophers share such praise.
If you are stuck on seemingly something simple, the problem is not where you are looking but in your assumptions. Take a break and walk away until the brains stop spinning the same logical chain. The moment they do, you are able to revisit your assumptions and check if they are true.
Search algorithms were introduced to help users to find the most relevant information. And they did a good job and continue to do it now…. if the information you seek is not in the realm of the interests of big players.
We wish life would develop to our expectations. But the most we can hope is that the inevitable reality check will be not too hard. Today it is Ethereum’s turn to struggle through it. Will it survive? I think so, but…
The growing world complexity requires better prepared minds. One of the sources of such minds is gaming community. The whole generation has grown up playing on-line since the very tender age, and now some of this generation are applying themselves to the challenges of the real world.