Creativity is an ability to create something new, intangible, unique.
The growing world complexity requires better prepared minds. One of the sources of such minds is gaming community. The whole generation has grown up playing on-line since the very tender age, and now some of this generation are applying themselves to the challenges of the real world.
Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Peter Principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. In time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out […]
There are many outstanding individuals, who have done for humanity much more than Olympic gold winners and many entertainment celebrities, but the wider public does not know their names. I have written already about Bartini. Today, I would like to honor three mathematicians. I learned about them accidentally and was impressed by their lives and […]
The first game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also known as tic-tac-toe) in 1952. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue, beat the reigning chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. There was some controversy around the match, but, after the event, Kasparov realized that he might have performed better if he’d had, as Deep Blue did, […]
Roberto Oros di Bartini was a genius. The only difference between him and a few well known greatest scientists of all times is that his name is familiar only to the specialists in the aviation industry, due to many specific reasons. First, as a young Italian communist, he probably worked for Russian intelligence. Second, after […]
This engraving is about 13,800 years old, but I cannot resist the feeling of connection with the person - an artist, who made it. It was found in Spain, about 30 miles west of Barcelona. The huts in the engraving are arranged in three levels across a slab that measures 7 inches wide and 3 […]
For quite awhile, we are already connected via the internet and multitudes of communication devices, so the idea of connection straight between brains comes naturally. But the progress of the implementation is staggering. It is actually already here. Boy, I am looking forward to stop writing you and starting just thinking together! On July 9, […]
What “contradictions” is associated with in your mind? Something negative, correct? Oxford Thesaurus lists the following synonyms for contradiction: conflict, clash, disagreement, opposition, inconsistency, mismatch, and variance. It used to have negative connotation for me too. But it somehow evolved due to my activity as a scientist. In the science, as you know, a contradiction […]
