It was well-known that the Ghost King was stupid and foolish, with a ghost-like appearance.

When I have stated that Mrs. “Pheel,” however temperate, was not of the total abstinence “stripe,” but rather given to the moderate use of aqueous stimulus, and that she had not departed a hair’s breadth from her principles on the day in question, I think that the intelligent reader will not fail to comprehend the true state of things.

His mother was quite unembarrassed about her failure to grasp the intangible, which struck him as her sole admirable characteristic.

It was a fertile time. Sejnowski remembers sitting in his kitchen, getting a call from Hinton: “Terry, I’ve figured out how the brain works,” Hinton said. Over the last 30 years, Sejnowski adds, Hinton has called and told him that a dozen times.

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is the book by world-famous English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It is considered a classic of children’s literature of XX century. Incredible adventures of the hero Bilbo Baggins and his friends are capable of and laugh, and move, and make a child think about the many important things. For decades, history is full of dangers traveling small detachment to the cherished goal captures the imagination of children and adults.

We’re particularly interested in research that either won’t work or, if it does work, won’t work for a long time.

His answer? “The ultimate moral imperative, then, is to waste as little energy as possible.”

We presented participants with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., “Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena”). 

What powers should we ascribe to God? At the very least, we should credit him with limited omniscience, as described in the following limited principle of omniscience (LPO for short) : If {n_k} i s any sequence of integers, then either n_k = 0 for all k or there exists a k with n_k ≠ 0. 

Because here’s the thing: a huge part of the way that I got to be in the fortunate place I am today had to do with embracing myself as a witchy charlatan con-woman.