Category: Life

Teaching my kids programming & math

For these exercises, all you need is some creativity and pen & paper.

The crucial bit is to come up with some exercises in order to get their attention. Find what they enjoy playing with, and gamify it. If they like pets, make commands to e.g. feed a pet. If they want toy soldiers games, make commands for e.g. moving and attacking.

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Philosophy for Everyone

While I was reading a book on the history of philosophy (1/3 through it), I became interested in philosophy in general.

I enrolled in a Coursera course Philosophy for Everyone, which seemed to be very popular. There’s also a book for it. In this post I will write an overview of every week and what I learned.

The way I consumed the content was to first read the handouts, write a quick review of them on this blog, and then continue by watching the videos.

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A simple fact about politics

Disclaimer: I am not a politics expert (whatever that may mean) nor have I read any books about politics. My background is in software engineering and maths.

Every party wants to be the ruling party

  1. A political party is formed with the intent of it to be a ruling party.
  2. A political party spends resources on marketing.
  3. Therefore every political party wants to be ruling.

Every politician must lie sometimes

  1. Assume a politician of a party A always tells the truth.
  2. Assume there’s an opposing party B.
  3. Since every political party wants to be ruling, opposing party B can abuse the truth.
  4. Since every political party wants to be ruling, Party A doesn’t want the truth to be manipulated and lose points.
  5. Therefore it is not the case that a politician of party A always tells the truth, that is, a politician of party A must lie sometimes. Without loss of generality, every politician must lie sometimes.

Lying can be a simple fact about GDP, or even worse when combined with the fact that every party wants to be ruling: manipulate the population into believing that the other party is the ultimate evil.