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Roger Penrose remembers his most beautiful thought

The following was transcribed from this YouTube video: We need to 'gravitise' quantum mechanics, not quantise gravity | Roger Penrose | Full Interview Penrose is 93 and in an amiable mood in this interview, so he goes into minor non-mathematical tangents from time to time. I've edited the following  […]

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Inventing a genre of music I haven't heard before: songs embodying Max Scheler's idea of love, the truest love I ever did see

It's been almost a year since I followed a hint from Iaian McGilchrist to learn more about Max Scheler's ideas on love. I've never found a more potent way of defining love, and over the past nine months or so I've been falling in love more and more with his way of framing love. Scheler wrote that  […]

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How to connect to SQL Server on Amazon with sqlcmd and import data from a SQL file

I found this information from MS to be insufficient, and pieced together the correct way to import data into SQL Server from a SQL file into an Amazon database using a non-standard port: sqlcmd -S tcp:mydata.c960gorblahblah.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com,1337 -U username -P p@ssW@rd~ -d mydatabasename  […]

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