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Provocation and adaptation

My last post, on the topic of resisting the circumstances in life, ended with a question. What choices should I make to resist maximally, given that choices make me stronger, i.e. choices have long term side effects on me? So I would like to, probabilistically, maximise my set of skills in order to best be […]

Posted 23 June 2010 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Resisting circumstances

Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that “what does not kill me, makes me stronger.” While true in some ways, this statement appears to be a generalisation masking a more complex truth. For instance, cutting off one’s hand does not kill one, but hardly makes one stronger, unless one specifically desired greatly improved dexterity of the other […]

Posted 21 June 2010 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Gregorian misery

The Gregorian calendar has been in use since 1582. Among its features is a moderately complicated rule for leap years: if n mod 4 is 0, then n is a leap year. However, if n mod 100 is 0, then n is not a leap year, unless n is a multiple of 400. In addition, […]

Posted 02 March 2010 † johan § Software development ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged:

Making playtime useful with color filling games

There’s a veritable torrent of little games constantly being released for the iPhone. One of the more likable ones is Flood-It, which I’ve been playing recently. The premise is extremely simple: you start off with a grid divided into squares of different, randomized colors. You are given a tool that works a bit like the […]

Posted 01 February 2010 † johan § Computer science ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,