Shame is Pride's cloak.
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93). Proverbs of Hell
Choosing is existence: to the extend you don't choose, you don't exist.
Dr. Dockey tells Horner
We are what we repeatedly do
by gmosx, at 28 Aug 2010We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle, 384-322 BC
Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
by gmosx, at 01 May 2010Now, this is a man with a mission. The notion that the search for a Unified Theory can be reduced to a search in the computational space is interesting.
Miscellanea
by gmosx, at 22 Apr 2010I 'm not in the mood for a long post, so here are random thoughts in aggregate form:
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The new Facebook Social Plugins are FriendConnect done right. FriendConnect has so much potential yet the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired (to say the least). Moreover, the Graph/OpenGraph APIs are a bold step forward towards the machine readable Web (Web 3.0 / Semantic Web if you will). The 'Like' button is an obvious (yet powerful) idea that Google should have implemented a long time ago.
π is wrong
I always thought that 'π' should be the number known as '2π'. Then 'π' would be the perimeter of the unit circle, angle measurements would be more intuitive (90 degrees == π/4, 180 degrees == π/2, 360 degrees = π, ie a full 'cycle' is π radians) and a lot of formulas would be simplified:
p = πr, ie scale the unit perimeter by the radius,
sin(x+π) = sin(x), ie the period of the trigonometric functions is π,
etc. At the moment π is the sum of the angles in a triangle and the perimeter of a circle of with a diameter equal to 1 (doesn't this look awkward to you?). Read 'π is wrong' for a better treatment of the argument.
iPhoneOS TOS
The latest iPhoneOS TOS made a lot of developers angry. I don't agree. One of the problems in our profession is what I call a Babel situation: So many different languages and platforms hinder cooperation. Finding and integrating engineers into a software development team is a pain. Thus, having a single platform (iPhoneOS), a single system language (Objective C) and single scripting/application language (JavaScript) is refreshing.
Invention II
by gmosx, at 20 Mar 2010If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of Giants
Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5th, 1675
Invention I
by gmosx, at 20 Mar 2010No human really “invents” or creates anything on his or her own.
Every idea and creation that has emerged has been done so based on the contributions of prior generations’ work, environmental influences and/or peer feedback.
The Zeitgeist Movement
The secret of happiness
by gmosx, at 07 Feb 2009The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
simple is efficient,
efficient is beautiful.
George Moschovitis, 2007