{"id":108,"date":"2010-10-10T01:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/108\/"},"modified":"2010-10-10T01:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:09:14","slug":"108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/108\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another lacklustre update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week my dad told me about an article in New Scientist concerning flaws in mathematics. After reading it I have become fascinated with G&ouml;del and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems\">incompleteness theorems<\/a>. It took several readings of some excellent on-line publications before I understood how he did it, but once you understand, you cannot help but appreciate what a genius the man was. Not only did he put a spanner in the works of all philosophy and mathematics, he did it in a most sneaky, brilliant and legitimate way. He was a true Hacker. It turns out that I share a birthday with him &#8211; if you ever needed proof against astrology then that should do it. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freelibrary.org\">Philadelphia Free library<\/a> has several copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach\">G&ouml;del, Escher, Bach<\/a>; one of which is going to arrive in my local library rsn.<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Schneier has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/10\/stuxnet.html\" title=\"Bruce on stuxnet\">typically brilliant analysis of the professionally created worm that&#8217;s currently scaring people<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Why did no-one tell me there was a new series of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Tricks_(TV_series)\">New Tricks<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Firefly turns out to be as good as people have been saying! For geeks, think Blakes 7 crossed with Deadwood &#8211; except that the swearing is in Mandarin.<\/li>\n<li>Why did no-one tell me there was a new series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/phoneshop\">Phoneshop<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another lacklustre update: Last week my dad told me about an article in New Scientist concerning flaws in mathematics. After reading it I have become fascinated with G&ouml;del and the incompleteness theorems. It took several readings of some excellent on-line publications before I understood how he did it, but once you understand, you cannot help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}