posts tagged ‘uncertainty’
Decisiones…
22 March 2011 • out of context
tags: analysis, brain, perception, quotes, uncertainty
“(…) las emociones están situadas en el lóbulo temporal del cerebro. Si éste está dañado, el individuo afectado puede volverse incapaz de tomar decisiones, incluso las más intrascendentes, como en la consulta del médico escoger día y hora para la próxima visita, ya que analiza interminablemente los pros y los contras de esa decisión sin darse cuenta de la necesidad de tomar al menos una ya”.
La inteligencia emocional de los jueces
Angel Puyol
Antinomy
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: language, meaning, perception, quotes, senses, thinking, truth, uncertainty
“Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally means the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. (…) The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience (phenomena).”
Aporia
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: language, meaning, perception, quotes, truth, uncertainty
“In philosophy, an aporia is a philosophical puzzle or a seemingly insoluble impasse in an inquiry, often arising as a result of equally plausible yet inconsistent premises. It can also denote the state of being perplexed, or at a loss, at such a puzzle or impasse.”
Fuzzy logic
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: mathematics, meaning, perception, quotes, truth, uncertainty
“Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic derived from fuzzy set theory to deal with reasoning that is fluid or approximate rather than fixed and exact. In contrast with “crisp logic”, where binary sets have two-valued logic, fuzzy logic variables may have a truth value that ranges in degree between 0 and 1. In simple words we can say fuzzy logic is a super set of conventional (boolean) logic that has been extended to handle the concept of partial truth–the truth values between completely true and completely false.”
Watchings
26 January 2011 • watchings
tags: anguish, apocalypse, chaos, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, electricity, fiction, humour, television, tv series, uncertainty, zombies
• Arduino The Documentary (2010) [watch]
• Dead Set (2008)
Charlie Brooker
• Misfits, Season 2 (2010)
Howard Overman
• Sherlock, Season 1 (2010)
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
• Dexter, Season 5 (2010)
• Breaking Bad, Seasons 1-3 (2008-2010)
Vince Gilligan
• Sons of Anarchy, Season 3 (2010)
Kurt Sutter
• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-5 (2005-2010)
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
• The Big Bang Theory, Seasons 1-3 (2007-2010)
Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady
Omakase
6 September 2010 • out of context
tags: freedom, language, liberation, meaning, uncertainty
Omakase (お任せ) is a Japanese phrase that means “It’s up to you” (from Japanese 任す, entrust).
The torturous experience of waiting
31 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, perception, quotes, time, uncertainty
“When we see the frozen hands of a clock with a dead battery, and we sit there and watch it, we tend to have a sinking feeling. Something feels wrong. We like to see time flow, as it is only natural that it seek its natural progression forward. On the other hand, when a clock is completely hidden we tend not to question its flow and instead experience an unsettling sense of uncertainty as to what time it might be. Seeing a clock’s secondhand tick-tick forward is a reassuring sign that all is well. (…) A frozen computer is like a frozen clock, and thus ways to psychologically deal with this torturous experience of waiting emerged in the form of progress bars.”
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
Readings
3 August 2010 • readings
tags: body, books, fiction, patterns, perception, psychogeography, rain, seitai, space, texts, uncertainty, walking
• Walking [read]
Henry David Thoreau. 1862.
• El cuerpo, su estado y la espontaneidad [download pdf]
Haruchika Noguchi
• The Crimes of the Flaneur
Tom McDonough. October Magazine, Fall 2002, No. 102.
• The Man of the Crowd [read]
Edgar Allan Poe. 1840.
• Théorie de la dérive [read]
Guy Debord. 1956.
• Sensorium
Edited by Caroline A. Jones
Noise & Chaos
3 February 2010 • out of context
tags: books, chaos, noise, patterns, quotes, uncertainty
“Scientists often say that any uncertainty in an observation is due to noise, without really defining exactly what the noise is, other than that which obscures our vision of whatever we are trying to measure, be it the length of a table, the number of rabbits in a garden, or the midday temperature. Noise gives rise to observational uncertainty, chaos helps us to understand how small uncertainties can become large uncertainties, once we have a model for the noise. Some of the insights gleaned from chaos lie in clarifying the role(s) noise plays in the dynamics of uncertainty in the quantitative sciences. Noise has become much more interesting, as the study of chaos forces us to look again at what we might mean by the concept of a ‘True’ value.”
Chaos: A Very Short Introduction by Leonard Smith