Memming the Inconsistent

Only converged open mind can be consistent?

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Time is nothing without memory.

mathematically speaking, any temporal structure is a form of memory.

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it seems that overall, we are short of examples. The methods for coming up with useful examples in mathematics (or counterexamples to commonly believed conjectures) are even less clear than the methods for proving mathematical statements.

— Gil Kalai, 2000 (via Günter M. Ziegler via Geordie Williamson)

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Because

not necessarily good or bad but fun

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why press "continue"?

Because you never know!

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My name is Memming.

Food is good.

But when it’s too hot,

it can burn you good.

Although your lips are sensitive,

The food’s depths they cannot sense.

But what if there was a product,

A golden needle with a thermocouple,

That when poked into food,

It can tell you if it’s safe?

Or a thermochromic pick

Coated with sapphire?

A million bucks idea,

Don’t you think?

Please make this product,

Dear Hank and John.

My repeatedly burned tongue

Would be thoroughly grateful.

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B's last words: Don't let 逸 run loose.

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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd. - Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus", p36

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The excluded middle way

Sufficient pessimism is needed to recognize one's limits, and sufficient optimism to progress despite the dire destiny.

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"Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." – Herbert Simon, Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World (1971)

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in an unfamiliar place

I am thankful for the combinatorial explosion that originates from the compositional configuration structure here allowed through the large degree of freedom accessible locally the in space and time neighborhood of this unfamiliar place.

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Now there is no normal process except death which completely clears the brain from all past impression; and after death, it is impossible to set it going again. – Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener

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Ideal breakfast conversation

A robbing Hood robbed Robin of robinhood.

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Hopes and Deaths

By the way, holding inconsistent thoughts continuously is a human weakness and a blessing.

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all plans

We took a course that taught me and my horse to stay on course but of course my horse ran leisurely off course

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Science communication

As an expert, speaking your own niche language is easy. What is difficult is to speak the same language. Show how smart you are by talking in a language your audience can understand and appreciate.

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It might be said that the field of cybernetics has issued a large promissory note that as yet has not been paid. This has happened not because of small machine memory and slow machine performance, but because of a shortage of ideas; i.e., ideas regarding methods of machine programming needed for the accurate imitation of the behavior of a man under varying circumstances. Wherein then lies the main difficulty?

“Pattern Recognition” (1967/1970) by Mikhail Bongard

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Perfect paradox

Is it possible to be perfect at not being perfect?