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I was encouraged, humbled, and enjoyed watching this video yesterday: https://youtu.be/0juLRi90kRg?si=dNRlPd4DYVKpwH5k Edit: oops, this was supposed to go in the Israel-Palestine thread. But I guess … (View Post)
Dear all, Some things have become clearer to me lately so I share something I wrote yesterday. We've had elections yesterday so that got me thinking... Feel free to share your thoughts, questions, pe… (View Post)
Amateur astronomy societies, which exist everywhere, often organise public star parties. The cool thing about them is that you get to observe through many different sizes and types of telescopes and … (View Post)
I read the book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling the other day. If I had the money, I'd buy a bunch of copies and give them away to everyone I know. But since I don't, y'all are getting just a… (View Post)
Some musings from recent history... Chess and poker and Go are games with a limited number of rules and clear objectives. For some time now, computers have been far better at these games than even th… (View Post)