Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
After getting my degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, I asked myself, “what should I do with all of the essays, research papers, and source code I authored in the last four years?” My answer: feed it to Google!
To have a nice place to publish my papers, I began working on Project Alexandria at [...]
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Passages like “when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth” (16) and “later [Clarissa] wasn’t so positive perhaps; she thought there were no Gods; no one [...]
I was struck by the compromises of civil and political rights for economic promise that Booker T. Washington was willing to make on behalf of a struggling race. DuBois describes Washington’s agenda as “a gospel of Work and Money to such extent as to completely overshadow the higher aims of life,” (30) and “the sudden [...]
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
No matter what side of the evolution debate you fall on, Charles Darwin is the exemplar of disinterested scientific inquiry. Darwin also successfully maintains an unparalleled passion for the study of nature which reveals itself in the comprehensive corpus of empirical data presented to the us, not for the sake of argument, but rather for [...]