dennett on ideas

extremely interesting interview on philosophy and "verbal ballet":

Dennett Interview

Beauty

1. The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.

Compilers and patterns

I was just reading another interesting "philosophical" piece on the difference between functional and procedural languages here

It is true that from functional viewpoint patterns can be easily described with recursion and thus easily reduced to simpler structures. It is not necessary to first define and create classes, and then let them call theirselves recursively as demonstrated here:

new Mul(
          new Sub(new Num(6), new Num(2)),
          new Add(new Num(2), new Num(3))).calc()));

Again recursion can make the translatation between structures a transparent process.

The pattern here is

group thinking

a very interesting talk by jonathan haidt about 5 forces that cause "values" within a group:

The moral mind

You can take a quiz at YourMorals DOT org

to learn more on your personal political viewpoint.