April 2011
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Best Films of 2010
10) (*tie*) This Movie is Broken / Trigger
A two-punch of Toronto musician stories by my new favorite Canadian director, Bruce McDonald rounds off the list. With Trigger, Bruce McDonald has made his own My Dinner with Andre that soaks in the talent and environment of Hogtown in a beautiful swan song for the late Tracy Wright, whose first lead performance as Vic will break your heart. This Movie...
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Top 100+ films
Striving for the ‘third thought’ evaulation between my art-experience of the film and the inherent merit of the the film’s own expression, but whenever uncertain always heeding on the side of my experience over some hypothetical value. The meaning of life is buried in this list, I am certain.
The Tree of Life (Malick)
Red Beard (Kurosawa)
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
Dr Strangelove (Kubrick)
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philosophical tweets
to say the majority of people are stupid is not to imply you are smart, it is to say the bar is lowered for what’s considered intelligent
the standard for intelligence should not be what theorems you understand, but how well you can adapt to any given situation.
… the pattern of success, not the capacity to follow rules.
you need a ‘theory of mind’ to apply theories, to...
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“I am most often irritated by those who attack the bishop but somehow fall for...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan
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Fragments on Scientific Method and Taleb's Black...
Risk-modeling is culpable to the errors Taleb talks about, and virtually all application of scientific investigation relies on risk-modelling, so to say that science can somehow wipe its hands clean of any misuse is absurd. Of course there is admirable work in science, but the division between it and pseudo-science is blurred, not nearly as clear-cut as we like to think. And besides, whatever...
