Neil Patrick Harris portrays Carl Jenkins (featured in the banner image) in Starship Troopers (1997). Carl Jenkins demonstrates both a high mathematical intelligence as well as psychic-abilities which, when he signs up for Federal Service, lands him in Games and Theory: military intelligence (replete with SS-styled uniforms). When I saw the Reading List and FinalContinue reading “Game Theory”
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Graeber’s “Debt”
Too many books sit unread on my shelf. This weekend, I finally made my way to Debt, The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (2011). The first chapter prepared me for disappointment. Graeber proudly announces his role in protesting the IMF and occupying Wall Street (I did not know his background before buying his books).Continue reading “Graeber’s “Debt””
Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity
This is a post copied whole cloth from an article by Palle Yourgrau as he was marketing his (then) recently published A World Without Time (2006). There have been any number of articles about both of these incredible thinkers. Despite a biting criticism (reposted in full at the bottom of this page) of Yourgrau’s book, IContinue reading “Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity”
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