Truth or Dare

I find it funny the way sometimes playing around with words can lead to new insights about the world we live in. This morning I was playing around with binary concepts — like “Yes” or “No”, “True” or “False”, and then I was reminded of a game we used to play as kids called “Truth… Continue reading Truth or Dare

Mainstream and / or Main Stream?

Modern English and Modern German are closely related languages. Generally, when linguists say something like this, it mainly means something like “there once existed another language which was neither Modern English nor Modern German, yet which is common ancestor of both languages”. Of course something as complex as a language can hardly be described in… Continue reading Mainstream and / or Main Stream?

The Contexts of Algorithms

IT’s an unsolvable problem: there is not some magical equilibrium in the middle that will make this work. IT’s about finding a balance. “There is No Algorithm for Truth – with Tom Scott” [18:00 – 18:15] (see also https://www.tomscott.com ) That quote comes from a presentation (apparently given in September 2019) — and the “IT”… Continue reading The Contexts of Algorithms

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