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Iva Bittova + Dunaj: V Bilem

I think I’m going to learn this one if I can make a cool piano accompaniment for it. 
The vocal range is exactly what I want to work on.  

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem: explained in words of one syllable

First of all, when I say “proved”, what I will mean is “proved with the aid of the whole of math”. Now then: two plus two is four, 

as you well know. And, of course, it can be proved that two plus two is four (proved, that is, with the aid of the whole of 

math, as I said, though in the case of two plus two, of course we do not need the whole of math to prove that it is 

four). And, as may not be quite so clear, it can be proved that it can be proved that two plus two is four, as well. And it 

can be proved that it can be proved that it can be proved that two plus two is four. And so on. In fact, if a claim can be 

proved, then it can be proved that the claim can be proved. And that too can be proved. 

Now: two plus two is not five. And it can be proved that two plus two is not five. And it can be proved that it can be proved 

that two plus two is not five, and so on. 

Thus: it can be proved that two plus two is not five. Can it be proved as well that two plus two is five? It would be a real blow 

to math, to say the least, if it could. If it could be proved that two plus two is five, then it could be proved that five is 

not five, and then there would be no claim that could not be proved, and math would be a lot of bunk. 

So, we now want to ask, can it be proved that it can’t be proved that two plus two is five? Here’s the shock: no, it can’t. Or 

to hedge a bit: if it can be proved that it can’t be proved that two plus two is five, then it can be proved as well that 

two plus two is five, and math is a lot of bunk. In fact, if math is not a lot of bunk, then no claim of the form “claim X 

can’t be proved” can be proved. 

So, if math is not a lot of bunk, then, though it can’t be proved that two plus two is five, it can’t be proved that it can’t be 

proved that two plus two is five. 

By the way, in case you’d like to know: yes, it can be proved that if it can be proved that it can’t be proved that two plus two 

is five, then it can be proved that two plus two is five. 

George Boolos, 199

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Amaranth Borsuk’s “Between Page and Screen” is mesmerizing. 

The concept, the technology, the writing. 

http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com/

She gave a talk last week at MIT. The book’s images are tagged to specific poems/graphics available on the site only through the tagged images. The poems start as epistles and evolve into shorter couplets and are love letters between P and S. 

Page and Screen cannot live without each other, you can only access the text if you have both. 

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RFID with Arduino

So awesome. Will come in useful for my upcoming Interactive Fiction masterpiece. boohahaha!

RFID with Arduino

Cool! We read Borghes in my Interactive and Nonlinear Narrative class. 
Loved it as well. Perhaps I’ll check out this as well pre-final project, thanks for the tip. 

evhan55:

I need to buy the New Media Reader and do some readings in it.  I really enjoyed the essays we read for seminar:  The Garden of Forking Paths, in particular.  I have a feeling there are essays in this book that I should be reading.  They speak to the technology in ways I can appreciate.

http://www.newmediareader.com/about.html

kitchen/chicken dreaming

I’ve been without a kitchen for so long, that once I have one I might actually foray into beyond-fish meat dishes. crazy I know. but this looks delicious!

kitchen/chicken dreaming

Thinking about doing this in my free time this summer.

free time, as if that will actually be a thing.

Still, seems pretty awesome.

Thinking about doing this in my free time this summer.