6 May 2014

Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.


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  1. Sabio Lantz17 May 2014, 00:44:00

    Voltaire's Candide -- one of my favorites. Great lad!

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  2. Takis Konstantopoulos17 May 2014, 02:38:00

    Yes, indeed. You see, I'm itching to blog but, alas, there's been no time lately. So I have to make do with short dicta.

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T H E B O T T O M L I N E

What measure theory is about

It's about counting, but when things get too large.
Put otherwise, it's about addition of positive numbers, but when these numbers are far too many.

The principle of dynamic programming

max_{x,y} [f(x) + g(x,y)] = max_x [f(x) + max_y g(x,y)]

The bottom line

Nuestras horas son minutos cuando esperamos saber y siglos cuando sabemos lo que se puede aprender.
(Our hours are minutes when we wait to learn and centuries when we know what is to be learnt.) --António Machado

 Αγεωμέτρητος μηδείς εισίτω.
(Those who do not know geometry may not enter.) --Plato

Sapere Aude! Habe Muth, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen!
(Dare to know! Have courage to use your own reason!) --Kant