Kylie Theoretical: November 2013

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Sławek's Leap: Hövding Crash Test

10,000 Hours

Excerpt from Peter Norvig's essay Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.

"So it may be that 10,000 hours, not 10 years, is the magic number. (Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) said "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst," but he shot more than one an hour.) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) thought it took even longer: "Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price." And Chaucer (1340-1400) complained "the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne." Hippocrates (c. 400BC) is known for the excerpt "ars longa, vita brevis", which is part of the longer quotation "Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile", which in English renders as "Life is short, [the] craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult." Although in Latin, ars can mean either art or craft, in the original Greek the word "techne" can only mean "skill", not "art"."

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Martha Nussbaum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Nussbaum

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Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum in 2008
Born	Martha Craven 6 May 1947 (age 66) New York City
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Political philosophy, Ethics,Feminism
Alma mater	Harvard University, New York University
Institutions	University of Chicago, Brown University, Harvard University
Notable ideas	Capability approach
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Martha Craven Nussbaum (born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, a chair that includes appointments in the philosophy department and the law school. She has a particular interest in ancient Greek andRoman philosophy, political philosophy, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights.

She also holds associate appointments in classics, divinity and political science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a board member of the Human Rights Program. She previously taught at Harvard and Brown.^[1]

Nussbaum is the author or editor of a number of books, including The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Sex and Social Justice (1998), The Sleep of Reason (2002),Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004), Animal Rights(2004, co-editor with Cass Sunstein), and Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (2006).