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Timothy Tableau: The Mark Zuckerberg Professor of Philosophy Pete Palu: The Florida Power Professor of Biology They both walked the corridor in their usual manner. They sat in the patio, on the same wooden bench that had been beaten, almost to death, by the violent southern rain. Tableau: You should probably know Zizek, or like him. Read More
I caught the AI flu – specifically the very virulent machine learning strain. It’s been on for several months now, and it’s getting worse by the day. At this point I think I should start infecting my readers. Okay, okay jokes apart – welcome to my AI/ML Notes. This is a new blog section which Read More
Sisyphus takes us back to school – Nigeria and Her Excesses – Marcus Crassus drinks a cup of molten gold – The Mathematical Approximation of Sisyphus’s Dilemma – Epicurus, Orgasm, and his friends. Happiness is expensive. If you don’t believe me, a quick call to a local psychologist will do, your eighty-something year old grandmother Read More
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein (Philosophy) Machine Learning (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge) by Ethem Alpaydin (Computer Science/Statistics) An Introduction to Statistical Learning (Computer Science/Statistics) The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries (Entrepreneurship) Children of Blood and Bone Read More
1234 Evening Road, Filaba Trans Company, Zimbabwe Sept. 25, 1959, Professor T. Jones, 315 Borbon Street, University of Trifton. Dear Professor Jones, My name, as you can see, is Mukasa. I am a Mathematician in Zimbabwe; and you can say I am a mathematician by day, a philosopher by night. We met once Read More
“Girls’ problem?” she said. He kept mum. “You mean your problem is deeper?” she asked. Readjusting the look on his face, “whose problem isn’t deep?” he replied. “Well, I will grant you that.” It was a rainy day, and the tall lady was the third human who almost fell from the slippery ground with meshed Read More
Soon, their voices began to percolate through my red old jarrah-wooden door. I changed my sleeping position, rotated 180 degrees away from the door, and threw my cover cloth over my head to see if I could reduce the sound waves from balking my sleep. I failed. I put on my ear plugs, but, gush, Read More
Friends, Over the next several months, I will be experimenting with fiction.
One: Grad School Sounds Easy This semester I served as an ambassador of the Biochemistry Graduate Program at The University of Georgia. We met with a few prospective graduate students at lunch a few weeks ago; and of course, like most graduate student ambassadors, folks always fall into this trap of saying the good stuff. Read More
One: What is True? “To say of what is, that it is; or of what is not, that it is not, is true.” I didn’t say that, Aristotle did, and what do I think? I think that is true. Two: Does Truth Exists? Let’s battle an assumption head-on, if we can define truth, does that Read More