Logic and Reason

If you are asked to define the biggest number you can, and restricted to only using only 1000 characters of English text, then there are onl...

I want to be a good composer and pianist someday, instead of a bad composer and an intermediate pianist like I am now. Here's my first...

This semester I teach a 1-unit class at UC Berkeley called X-treme Thinking. Here is the Course Website .

“What is there?” is an important question in philosophy, as it applies to both the physical world, and the world of ideas. The branch of phi...

5. What's the difference between a pile of dead babies, and stuff I don't keep in my garage? 4. What's arguably more humane th...

I wrote up the detailed notes for my latest Extreme Thinking seminar. Check it out: Self-Reference

My friend Lior started a blog. It's funny. Did A Guy Named Phil Start Philosophy?

What have you done in the last second? Because your computer could have done a billion things. Do you ever stop to think about how much wo...

This is my first philosophy of math post, and I got the ideas from reading Scott Aaronson . I saw some wiseacre on an internet forum make ...

28 years after his classic book Godel, Escher, Bach (aka Introduction to Thinking About Awesomeness ), author Douglas Hofstadter is releasi...

Hey blog readers, I am looking for a position in the South San Francisco Bay Area as a Summer programming intern. I am an undergraduate Co...

Today I created a password for a website, and it asked me for a secret question in case I forget my password. So I typed in "What is th...

I just read a quick thought-provoking everything2.com post called creating a password to convince yourself you have traveled back in time . ...

The religion that we see today comes in fundamentalist and moderate varieties. I consider the two to be wrong and meaningless, respectively,...

Note: All of this content is plagiarized. If you want to find the sources, just search for the strings in quotes :) Some professors asked...

Last Tuesday, I voted in the midterm elections. I did it by filling out an absentee ballot in front of a computer at the library. I thought ...

I didn't want to make this blog into a link blog, but I come across a lot of interesting stuff on the web, and I usually just post it to...

In the background signing books is renowned scientist Richard Dawkins (I'm in the center foreground). I think Richard Dawkins constitu...

A fascinating psychological phenomenon: Anchoring .

My computer in my dorm is my base. Whenever I'm in my room without having decided exactly what to do next, I get in my computer and see ...