I was planning to remodel my attic, and now I’m mostly done. This was the plan for the alcohol corner: And reality. It kind-of looks the sam, except I can’t fly and am not infinitely skinny like in the 3D program. On the plus side, reality has a lot more booze. Computer corner: Reality: Reality […]
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Remodeling the Attic
I’ve reached the equilibrium where my memory of the annoyance of remodeling the two first floors is balanced with the annoyance of the mess in my attic: There’s nothing to do about the ugly carpet (there’s nothing underneath and I’m not going to put anything there). I’m also not going to bother with painting the […]
Tertium Datur
In logic, there’s a law called tertium non datur. The English name of the law is “the law of the excluded middle” The law states that any statement is either true or false.
If we combine this with the logical fallacy false dichotomy, and the notion of substitution, many arguments actually rely on tertium non datur. […]
The Real Danger of Artificial Intelligence
When most people think of the dangers of artificial intelligence, this is probably more or less what comes to mind: Computer-literates and paranoids might raise (legitimate) privacy concerns and mention uncomfortable cases like the teenager whose parents learned she was pregnant when a machine learning algorithm started sending her parenting advertisements based on her purchasing […]
If I Were More Mature I’d be Methuselah
Hats off for Withings – their customer support excellent – less than an hour after I sent a mail to their support, I got a response from Victor, who shall remain anonymous. I tried ordering again but with initially little luck. In the end, my order went thru, and I decided to share my experience […]
I Handled that Maturely
A bunch of time ago, I ordered a Withings scale which can connect to the internet. I’ve been largely happy with it, and when they released a new one a couple months ago, I had half a mind to get one, but it was conveniently never included in their (rather frequent) promotions, and even I […]