Whitehead on flow and fluency
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  I mentioned Whitehead's apparent sympathy with Heraclitus in my last post about him. My reading had not yet at that point discovered Process and Reality. Part II, Chapter Ten, which takes the form of an extended meditation on the sentiment "all things flow." In Heraclitus' Greek, panta rhei.  The sympathy is here made explicit. Indeed, a full understanding of that sentiment is said to be one of the main goals of philosophizing at all.  Some of the thinkers of the early modern world tried to ban flow, or fluency, from their picture of the world.  But Whitehead adds, "N ..read more
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A thought on US bankruptcy law
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  The arbitrage of rental periods turns out to be a somewhat common (or at any rate a not-too-rare) business model. A company or other business entity can enter the market as a tenant, taking long-term rental properties, and then turn around and serve as landlord, leasing out the same spaces (perhaps after renovating them, etc.) to shorter-term and higher-rent paying tenants. If this works: great!  The arbitrager has one stream of money going out the door and another larger stream coming in the door.   If it doesn't work ... the relations between a landlord and a tenant ..read more
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Nineveh and Tyre, Part II
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Friday, I shared some thoughts about Rudyard Kipling's poem RECESSIONAL.  I quoted especially this verse: Far-called, our navies melt away;   On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday   Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Today I would like to talk briefly about the two Biblical references, Nineveh and Tyre.  Nineveh figures in the story of Jonah. Jonah was ordered to deliver God's wrathful message of impending destruction to Nineveh, a city near the one we know as Mosul.&nbs ..read more
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Nineveh and Tyre Part I
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1w ago
  Rudyard Kipling, in his poem Recessional (1897) famously prophesied a time in which the British Empire would be no more, hard though this may have been to imagine in 1897, the diamond anniversary of the reign of Victoria.  It consists of five stanzas of six lines each, and each stanza has a straightforward ABABCC rhyme scheme. The third sticks to my mind right now.  Far-called, our navies melt away;   On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday   Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest w ..read more
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From Holmes Sr.
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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr The true US Declaration of Independence from our Mother Country may be found in these words ..read more
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True story
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  ... the Love of my Life wanted to get to the nail salon for a scheduled appointment a few days back. We also needed to pick up some dry cleaning.  I suggested I knew a convenient route, we could do the latter on the way to getting to the former.  I might mention that her hair salon is a couple of towns away, and it happens to be in the town I grew up in. I can be a bit cocky about the best routes for getting to places there.  On the day in question.... she had to be there by 12:30 PM.  That was mission critical.  I told her as we left our driveway we could pic ..read more
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POLITICO gets something everyone else missed
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  THIS is a fine and perceptive scoop.  May have been the best single piece of 'morning after' journalism on the Super Tuesday primary. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/05/super-tuesday-2024/cryptos-big-night-00145274 Congrats to Jasper Goodman.  Personally, I think it is still an open question whether Bitcoin and all its kin, cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets, are a permanent feature of the American and world financial landscape or whether they are going to vanish away.  They may be doomed to become as hard-to-find as an etch-a-sketch.  BUT ... if you a ..read more
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The coming AI collapse
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Artificial intelligence, in the form that bothers people most these days, is a matter of the consumption of very large masses of text, and their re-packaging and re-use of that text to look and sound like something new and original.  Should this worry us? Maybe not. It may be about to self-destruct.  After all, as it happens more and more often, the AI algorithms are more and more busy digesting AI-generated texts. As a group of (admittedly human) researchers noted recently,“We find that use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting m ..read more
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Whitehead's cosmology -- and a tee shirt
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2w ago
 So, what's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the tee shirt we live?  I have written of late in this blog about Alfred North Whitehead's book, Process and Reality. But I have written chiefly of what he says there about other philosophers.  Plato, Locke, Hume....Now I hope to get to the core of Whitehead's original thought. What does he say about ... process and reality? What is his cosmology?  I have to bring one more historic figure, Leibniz, into the mix even to say this next bit, though. Because you can think of Whitehead's core supposition as a monadology. Any one o ..read more
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Thoughts on telecom M&A trends
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Merger and acquisition activity in the telecommunications market slowed in 2023. Around the globe, such activity reached a mere $61 billion in deal volume, down 15% from 2022.  Furthermore, the deal value numbers may be misleadingly high, because a single deal -- an outlier -- made them look respectable. Telecomm Italian agreed to sell its fixed network business to KKR and that is a $23.3 billion deal, almost two fifths of the whole.   I'm sure the question on your collective mind right now is -- "Wait:  KKR is betting on old-school landlines?"  But let us move on ..read more
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