On the exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and openness to new ideas — and why science has the additional virtue of being true.
tags: Sagan, skepticism, science, pseudoscience, wonder, Copernicus, SETI
On the governance of chance, the tyranny of hope, and the disguises of idleness — from The Rambler and The Idler.
tags: Johnson, essays, morality, chance, hope, idleness, Rambler, Idler
A collection of aphorisms on the nature of the will, the masks we wear, the consolations of distance, and the pendulum of opinion.
tags: philosophy, psychology, human-nature, will, intellect, Schopenhauer
This article introduces temporal-difference methods — a class of incremental learning procedures that assign credit by means of the difference between temporally successive predictions. The E=mc² of reinforcement learning.
tags: reinforcement-learning, TD-learning, prediction, machine-learning, Markov-processes, convergence
Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
tags: systems, civilization, complexity, time, architecture
✦ memory · ☽ night · ∞ loops · ❧ margins · ◆ proof
a personal library in perpetual arrangement · MMXXVI