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Monthly Archives: February 2011
When did we start using Euclid’s axiomatic geometry in architecture?
Friends, I need help: When did we start using Euclid’s axiomatic geometry in architecture? It seems to be that we had been building structures heuristically (including cathedrals), without any formal framework, that Euclid appeared late as a “lecturing birds how to fly” effect. Thanks
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Open Lecture NYU AbuDhabi, March 1, 6:30 PM
Open Lecture NYU AbuDhabi, March 1, 6:30 PM – Lecture on the Philosophy of Probability
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Amazon.com: Profile For N N Taleb: Reviews
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New NNT book review on Amazon. There are 5 pages of NNT’s book reviews, mostly things he really likes, on Amazon. HatTip to Peter T.
Great presentation of modularity, February 19, 2011
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This review is from: Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind (Hardcover)
This is a great synthesis of the modularity approach to cognitive science. It covers the entire field and has the right footnotes for the patches.
The style is readable, & the author has an attitude (with is a very good thing, but his jokes are often bland, not aggressive enough). While I strongly disagree with his treatment of morality (I am deontic), I can safely say, so far, that this is not just one of the best books in cognitive science, but certainly one of the most readable.
Nassim N. Taleb
My point on Marx is that he understood fragility & alienation.
My point on Marx is that he understood fragility & alienation. No other thinker has ever gotten close to that. Ignore his remedies; he got the fragility right, but the rest backwards as he did not reach the level of antifragility (& there was no word for it in German & languages he knew).