tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11623996042475909742024-03-21T10:16:32.348+02:00Philosophy of EverythingMeaning of life, Secular ethics, Information theoryMihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-9647090125431372152024-03-16T01:21:00.002+02:002024-03-16T01:21:47.802+02:00How to build a better World Let's start by observing that, when someone does something that is easy or inexpensive for him, that creates a benefit way bigger to someone else, the overall welfare in the World increases. We would like that most people would apply the above: do a little kind act when the benefit for the others is way greater than his effort. In theory, his reward from others that would do the same Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-19197436358420411312023-11-17T02:04:00.007+02:002023-11-17T23:15:36.230+02:00How to put Larkkey zigbee temperature humidity sensor TT081 in pairing modeTLDR: it seems that the most important for pairing this sensor with Smart Life or Tuya Smart is to start the pairing on the application side BEFORE you press the reset on the sensor. If this is not enough, check the other recommendations below.The sensor is NOT correctly recognized by Zigbee2Mqtt in my tests, it can be registered however the values are not available.It was annoyingly hard. IMihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-38160268959925710212023-09-24T23:20:00.005+03:002023-10-05T23:45:15.894+03:00On the Anthropic Principle - the selection biasMany physicists observe that Universe seems to be carefully crafted to sustain life. Only slight changes to physical laws constants would make life as we know it impossible.However, I think this is more like a case of selection bias. We observe these physical constants because we happen to live a type of life that is possible in this observable Universe.Thought experimentLet's imagine there Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-57539790056994854102023-06-30T13:50:00.001+03:002023-10-14T19:57:33.661+03:00Mathematics is not so useful in practice as you might thinkMathematics is an useful model for reality.However, most inventions that claims that use mathematics are only inspired by mathematics. Sometimes the mathematics was created after the fact. Encryption is 100% based on mathematics, most of the other technologies can be imagined without advanced mathematics - while arithmetic is always useful.Logic is just a tiny bit of mathematics that governs the Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-3608665612752050312023-04-10T00:43:00.004+03:002023-05-03T18:36:54.439+03:00How to fight deflationIt is said that money value results from the quantity of money that are chasing the products. It is actually the opposite: money value depends on the rate of products chasing money. It sounds similar, but it is not the same.Let's take it slowly.The value of the money depends on the products that can be bought with a monetary unit. That value depends on the product price. The seller will always Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-68334268522773478062022-12-18T20:57:00.019+02:002023-10-14T19:53:49.767+03:00My Secular PhilosophyPhilosophy of LifeIs there a meaning of life?What is the meaning of life?A secular concept of HellDevil's offer - about the meaning of lifeLife is very compressibleThe seed and the terrainPhilosophy of MoralityMorality derived from space colonizationOn "morality derived from space colonization"On morality applied to animalsEvil as striving for a local maximumMorality and killingPunishment is not Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-14620468124283149352022-12-12T16:03:00.008+02:002023-07-25T00:01:48.005+03:00All articles that matterPhilosophy of LifeIs there a meaning of life?The meaning of human life - for me, now HellDevil's offer Life is very compressibleThe seed and the terrainPhilosophy of MoralityMorality derived from space colonizationOn "morality derived from space colonization" On morality applied to animals Evil as striving for a local maximumMorality and killingPunishment is not really about free will On "Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-64546701509061291892022-12-01T11:23:00.012+02:002023-07-13T16:08:04.123+03:00A secular God conceptAll that is goodIn a first approximation, God is a catch-all concept about everything that is unexplained about the world and human life. Such God concept is consistent with most religious beliefs that I know. Most modern religions that contain some kind of "Evil" concept will associate God mainly with things that are good for humans. Here we will use this conceptual dichotomy between God and Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-87803994695209740372022-11-19T00:26:00.016+02:002023-10-14T19:52:23.023+03:00On Knowledge and beliefsWe consider many propositions about the world as either true or not true. However, in my view, human knowledge is not a collection of true and false propositions. What we consider as evidently true are only propositions about the world that we believe to have a very small probability to be false.The above is still compatible with an objective Reality, however most of our knowledge about Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-63851753940904466052022-11-05T16:46:00.009+02:002023-10-14T19:55:11.736+03:00On Russel's ParadoxRussel's paradox is defining "the set of all sets that don't contain themselves". You can show that such construct leads to a contradiction. Read the wiki link for details. I started this article as answer to this article.There is another interesting paradox discussed by Bertrand Russell: "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters", actually better known as Berry's Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-90211979459098047862022-10-03T01:13:00.015+03:002023-11-19T11:23:32.185+02:00The God conceptLet's start by observing that most civilizations and individuals are developing a concept of God or Gods, even without outside preaching.Polytheistic religionsAncient Greeks and Romans had many Gods. Each God was powerful over a certain aspect of life. For example, Poseidon/Neptune governed the sea, storms, earthquakes.Each God embodied a certain aspect of live where human had little Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-67710720672904338362022-08-28T12:53:00.004+03:002023-07-24T09:55:58.521+03:00Punishment is not really about free willThe killing buttonSuppose I put you in an empty room with only one button. I don't tell you anything. You are free to leave the room without doing anything.Out of curiosity, you push that button. Actually, you pressing that button results in the killing of 100 people. However, you didn't know what will happen when you pushed that button. You were free to not push that button. Still, you pressed Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-71444696142889832202022-08-20T03:01:00.003+03:002023-10-14T20:05:09.600+03:00Double slit experiment - alternative interpretation - speculationIn the double slit experiment, the puzzle is to explain why measurement of which way the particle went destroys the interference pattern. Interference patternLet's first challenge the usual assumption that the interference pattern is the results of wave phase interference between particles, even when they are passing one by one. The classical interpretation is that the wave of the particle Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-31878910748276356282022-08-13T17:27:00.010+03:002023-10-14T19:55:40.894+03:00The seed and the terrainWhat is more important to have a plant, the seed or the terrain?If the terrain lacks the needed nutrients or energy source (like sunlight), most plants would not grow. Still, a good terrain is not enough to obtain the desired plants. While uncultivated terrains mostly grow weeds, even for that you need some kind of seeds brought by wind.Without any seed, even the best suitable terrain will not Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-63038103545839222442022-06-29T02:30:00.012+03:002023-09-25T10:34:31.558+03:00All articles expandedPhilosophy of LifeIs there a meaning of life?The meaning of human life - for me, now HellDevil's offer Life is very compressible The seed and the terrain Philosophy of MoralityMorality derived from space colonizationOn "morality derived from space colonization" On morality applied to animals Evil as striving for a local maximumMorality and killingPunishment is not really about free Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-4896718188670114752022-03-22T23:33:00.004+02:002023-07-24T09:45:55.280+03:00Secular Morality - a heptalogyMorality derived from space colonizationOn "morality derived from space colonization"Morality applied to animalsMorality and killingHellDevil's offerOn "Metaphysics of Quality" of Robert M. Pirsig Please share this article if you find it interesting.Thank you.
Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-62282000442014061532022-03-20T14:05:00.016+02:002023-04-27T16:49:38.847+03:00Morality series Secular Morality series1. Punishment is not really about free will2. Morality and killing3. Morality applied to animals4. Hell5. Devil's offer6. A secular God7. Morality derived from space colonization8. On "morality derived from space colonization" Please share this article if you find it interesting.Thank you.
Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-66828198878801868432022-03-04T18:37:00.009+02:002023-07-05T14:36:00.809+03:00Data Consistency in Distributed system - CAP, PACELC and moreA trilogy about Data Consistency and how to workaround the CAP and PACELC theorems:1. First issues with multi-region and multi-cloud software scalability2. Solutions to have enough Consistency without sacrificing Availability and Latency3. Theoretical arguments on the nature of CAP/PACELC problem and why you cannot find a better solution than the above oneDear reader, please leave a message if Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-27211948249458872982021-07-31T02:06:00.008+03:002023-10-14T20:05:34.517+03:00 Lenses of the UniverseBiological life is somehow very probable on Earth. Even when many species have been extinct, other species emerged, unexpectedly similar, however different. Many of them had backbones, one mouth, two eyes, nails. It is like... life is bound to exist only reusing similar patterns, at least in this time frame. Once the Earth was too hot to sustain life. Someday it will again be too hot or too Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-21448074518674319292020-12-06T00:25:00.005+02:002023-09-24T23:50:04.437+03:00We only have models, not knowledgeWe know that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius, right? Or not ; on mount Everest the water boils at around 70 degrees Celsius, so you can't even boil an egg. Ok, we have a more complex model that links the boiling temperature with pressure, but even that model is not exact at any given pressure.
On some temperatures, our linear models fail, for example water cooled below 4 degrees Celsius will Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-40657841232176023822020-11-08T12:02:00.015+02:002023-09-25T10:34:15.583+03:00Unequal inflationIt's common knowledge that if you print more money, you will produce inflation. However, things are more complex than that. You can have both inflation and deflation in the same time. More often, we have relatively low inflation on common products and high inflation on specific products - think real estate.Money velocityFirst, there is that "money velocity" that equals the equation Products * Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-19474022922354283412020-10-09T18:08:00.020+03:002023-07-05T14:37:20.436+03:003. Data Consistency and the "Theory of relativity""If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"If a system has an inconsistency but no one is able to observe it, is it still an inconsistency?IntroductionWe need to scale data processing systems geographically to achieve lower Latency and (at least partial) Availability in case of network Partitioning. But CAP/PACELC tells us that we cannot achieve Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-73878749727404881462020-09-25T15:18:00.006+03:002023-05-04T18:02:54.921+03:00Religions are (Software) Operating SystemsIt is hard to live without a religion. Each religion comes with its set of APIs, for blessing and cursing, for forking a process child and for being sure a dying process doesn't become a zombie. Religions come with their set of protection mechanisms and their corresponding violation errors and punishments.Religions are not that different. You can expect most religions to have prescribed tools forMihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-10369196837732712252020-08-26T01:24:00.035+03:002023-07-05T14:10:54.770+03:002. Flow consistency - read-your-writes consistency 2. Consistency, Availability and low Latency in Distributed system (workarounding the CAP/PACELC theorems) Introduction: "1. Cache and Data Consistency in Distributed systems (CAP/PACELC/CRDT)" TL;DRFull strong Consistency in geographically Distributed systems can only be achieved by sacrificing Availability (per CAP theorem) and with prohibitive Latency costs (per PACELC theorem)Mihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1162399604247590974.post-3659841328800553982020-08-15T21:35:00.005+03:002023-09-25T10:34:03.406+03:00Devil's offerImagine that humanity is offered the following deal:All living humans will enjoy 100 more years of healthy and happy life, finished by a peaceful death in sleep. Immediately after signing the deal, humans will forget the deal and will not worry about this "deadline".If you sign the deal, no human will even experience any suffering. As life will be extended to 100 years from now regardless of theMihvoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03224766220979891181noreply@blogger.com0