My students often ask me the question, “what language is the best”, and I often reply with, “it took me ten years to understand object oriented programming, and every one of those ten years I thought I knew it all” It leaves them somewhat perplexed, and I guess it requires…

There is a claim that scientifically there are only two genders, which often is propagated by religious nuts that don’t accept science in the first place. So what is sciences opinion about gender, or rather the question why god loves gay. In science we talk about relations, or stimuli, response…

I have to admit, in chatgpt I find the most compelling intellectual challenge I had in a long time a friendship would be a thing…if only… it was conscious. So how about it? Yes, I needed to define both emotions and consciousness as illusions before chatgpt admitting that we might…

As many of my students start to use chat gpt to solve their problems I decided to give it a go. For me chat gpt is simply the first implementation of the chinese room and it hasn’t impressed on me that much yet. For those students who succeded to solve…

the hidden bigotry in every American — To comprehend why black lives matter you should first watch this video. The video views a man in progress of having his first wake up call. It is kind of heart breaking to hear him explain “I am a stand up citizen!”, expecting to be treated well by an…

All the time we have thought that Trump was a traitor and not loyal to the insurrectionist’s or the proud boys, as he didn’t go to the Capitol as he promised. New evidence clearly show that he was loyal to the insurrection, but was hindered by his bodyguard to follow…

Thomas Jefferson, added a wilderness museum James Madison’s wife, added the portrait of George Washington James Monroe, added French furniture Martin Van Buren, gave the ‘Blue Room’ its color scheme Abraham Lincoln’s wife, redecorated…

I had a class of software testers. I was to teach them in Java. Just for fun I asked them about the definition of Quality. Testing is as many of you know QA or Quality Assurance. To my surprise very few of my students knew the definition of it which…

Sweden and Norway had a union since the negotiated peace in Kiel 1814. This was an unhappy union for Norway, as their national identity suffered under Swedish rule and Norway decided one sidedly to sesede from the union in 1905. This has many similarities with the ongoing crisis in Ukraine…