More MLP, with the things I thought about while reading.

• I just read Vernor Vinge’s True Names, and a phrase popped out at me:
  

  …being a person is more than symptoms.

  As far as I can tell, no, it isn’t. You can’t devalue emergent phenomena just by calling them symptoms. Hate is just a chemical reaction, but what a chemical reaction! You can’t dismiss something just because you think you can categorise it.

• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet → Comprehensive.
• Changelog for Python 2.3 → Tons of interesting stuff, and it lead to…
• The N Queens Problem → Read it, it’s good. Very nice introductory example of algorithmic thinking.
• Logic File System → There’s definitely something in category theory…
• n-categories → It’s everywhere. I don’t know anything about it and already it seems like the answer to knowledge representation, AI, language design, string theory, and the very essence of Pattern! Granted, that’s the best case scenario. The explanation might, in fact, be very localised, limited to merely our own galaxy. If I do a PhD, it has to be in this.