#Колонки для Комп'ютерри
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Phosphorus-free diet? Column in KompyuterrOnline #42
History shows that over time the relative importance of resources changes. Perhaps we should not think about conserving current resources, but about accelerating the transition to a phase when they will no longer be needed?
Refusal of Expansion? Column in KompyuterraOnline #41
When one of us passes away without leaving children, they become the first such failure in a line of ancestors stretching almost four billion years! What will we become if we refuse expansion?
Markov and Human Evolution. Column in ComputerreOnline #40
Imagine a book series “Prosveshchitel”: wonderfully published, hand‑to‑hand books with high‑quality printing that are immediately made freely available in electronic form.
Antelope track chain. Column in ComputerreOnline #39
Humans excel at reconstructing chains of cause and effect and tend to impose their chain logic on any object of study. Regardless of how it functions, we think it works that way.
Gauss – I believe!
This is not a column, it is the second blog entry on Kompyutere-online, after the first one sparked a truly explosive discussion. Previous stages of the discussion: the first post on Kompyutere and on Batrachos; an addition to it on …
The causes of our (imper)fection. Column in ComputerreOnline #38
The hunting method of our ancestors has left an imprint on our bodies. Its traces – both hairlessness, the nature of thermoregulation, and much more. And equally deep traces of this way of life can be found in our psyche.
Modeling Elections
My post about the Russian elections on the Computerra Online blog (here it is on the CT site, and here it is on my site) provoked a fairly serious discussion there and here as well. What concerned me most was …
Elections and Statistics
Many criticize statistical processing: they say it is soulless, lifeless. But there are cases when it is precisely statistics that provide vivid and simply unsurpassed arguments. The distribution of votes cast for different parties across different polling stations during the …
Problems of Interpretation. Column in KomputerraOnline #37
We are not cameras that mechanically reflect reality. What we expect, we channel through ready-made cognitive schemas. But what happens when we perceive something entirely unfamiliar?
Protopopov and Instincts. Column in ComputerreOnline #36
{ "title": "", "summary": "", "body": "How should our consciousness deal with instincts? To declare them non-existent is to fall under the power of neuroses. To surrender to their mercy is to lose the advantages of a rational and cultural …
Who Passes Through the Filter? Column in KomputerraOnline #35
In one important respect, Ukraine has managed to catch up with Russia. Just as Russia can boast of Petryk, Ukraine can boast of Sliusarchuk.
Hardening freedom. Column in ComputerreOnline #34
The traits of our species that intensified during the final stages of our evolution will become less stable, more frequently giving rise to various anomalies affecting our health.
Brain as Inadaptation. Column in ComputerreOnline #33
{ "title": "", "summary": "", "body": "It turns out that our brain is excessive. If we had evolved more slowly, we would have achieved the same efficiency with a smaller \"processor\". But the first species to evolve had to pay …
Do Humans Have Photoperiodic Responses? Column in KomputerraOnline #32
Photoperiodic responses do exist in humans. They manifest as an increase in sex hormone levels in response to increasing day length. And when are children conceived in February born? In November — amid hunger and cold.
The Gosse Argument. Column in KompyuterraOnline #31
The Gosse argument is logically impeccable. Its only flaw is that it is useless for adapting to the world in which we actually live.
Инопланетяне рядом с нами! Column in КомпьютерреOnline #30
If Lewis and his colleagues are correct, 50 tons of extraterrestrial organisms arrived on Earth ten years ago. What are the consequences for the Earth's biosphere? Virtually none.
Pansemia – a dead end or a hope? Column in ComputerreOnline #29
The study of living organisms and their fragments in material from space helps understand the patterns of the origin of life, but it is unlikely to explain its presence on Earth.
Pre-life. Column in ComputerOnline #28
I conclude with confidence that the most complex phenomenon of life arose as a result of a regular process that ensures the already studied processes of increasing complexity of autocatalytic reactions due to selection.
Hoyle's argument. Column in ComputerreOnline #26
It is more likely that a hurricane sweeping over a graveyard of old aircraft will assemble a brand‑new superliner from scrap pieces, rather than a single random event giving rise to life from its components.
Peyley's argument. Column in ComputerreOnline #25
This wonderful world – did it arise by itself, like a stone, or does it testify to the Timekeeper, like a clock?