Singularity

Recently, I found some nice graphical novels. Pure pleasure. One of them is Singularity 7 by Ben Templesmith, who is sooooo god damn kiddnapped by UFOs, that my head explodes when I see his paintings.



Another nice stuff is Robotika, which is a story about Niko - steam punk samurai.


Some times ago, I had to buy paper comix, which was pretty expensive, very slow (especially for a person with NO patience like me). But now with my iPad, it is so easy and fast and cheap and does not require extra space to store the decaying paper bodies. *rainbows and unicorns*

new Chomsky()

The language is one of the most amazing tools developed by humans. It reflects the way we think and the way we perceive our environment. It helps us transfer and preserve knowledge, emotions, experience. In my diploma thesis at the KIT, I had to work a lot with language and speech. I learned much about the acoustics of a speech. And I realized for myself, that the holy grail is the semantics and pragmatics of the language. We understand the acoustic part of human speech pretty well and therefore created accurate models of it. But the last % of perfect speech recognition performance can be gained only by understanding speech on top of parsing sounds successfully. In my opinion it is time to start more eagerly exploring structures that will capture the meaning and reflect the data organization of human mind. The problem here is, we need knowledge from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy and behavioral psychology. We need a concept that will merge these areas and people brave enough to step aside of the path that is thought to be "the right". And while waiting for the new universal genius to be born.. a fun comic-shaped fact:

win a brighter view

What happens, when you try to merge comics with science book?
Somebody would surely say: "bad idea - you see the surface of a very deep ocean", but lets calculate it:

We assume, you are studying physics. And you have no idea about the meaning of semiotics, or linguistics.. You have heard about Nietzsche in the school during the interval of speaking with your desk mate and trying to solve the new sudoku puzzle at the same time. And you specially thinks, that Marx is a rich dictator who has fired almost all revolutions in the world.
To get to the truth, you need:
4 x 3 x (356 - 2 x 30) x 8 = 28416 hours
(4 subjects, 3 years, 356 days- 2 months vacation, 8 hours)

And if you are ready for this sacrifice, then wonderful! But would you sacrifice additionally 56832 hours for the topics:
Anthropology
Fractal geometry and chaos theory
Kant
Modernism,
sociology
Wittgenstein
Religion
Evolutionary psychology


I know the answer - "NO". And not because you don't want to, but because you don't have the time. It's also not necessary to know everything about everything, but how could you possibly decide what's interesting?

Help?

well.. :)
wonderful book series: http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/intro.cfm

I have read and can recommend these book from the sequence:

Fractal geometry is my favorite!



nice pocket choice

now I'm reading about Marx:




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