Thoughts: The Ebb and Flow

attorneyatmetaethicallaw:

philulzophy replied to your post: That awkward moment when you realize Nietzsche has never had an original thought.

well everyone had influences, you know?

From all that I’ve seen of Nietzsche, he seems to directly copy other philosophers. I mean, having influences is one thing,…

One of the reasons Ecce Homo is basically a self-praising diatribe is because Nietzsche was starting to go insane from his syphillis.

 Also, what has he directly copied? Explain yourself!!!

jtotheizzoe:

In Uganda, home-grown computer science programs are empowering a new class of professional scientists to invest in their own futures. It isn’t happening through the “Big Science” of atom smashers and spaceships, either. It’s through nimble, entrepreneurial projects that have direct impact in their home countries.

They suffer from a lack of qualified teachers and some growing pains, but science is a great way forward into the world economy for African men and women.

But Venansius Baryamureeba had bigger ideas. In 2005, when he returned home with a doctorate from the University of Bergen in Norway, he was just one of a handful of computer scientists in Uganda. And his timing was right. The largely agricultural economy had been growing by about 7 percent annually, propelling an enormous expansion of the upper middle class and the urban elite’s aspirations for advanced training in science and engineering.

Emboldened by Uganda’s relative peace and prosperity, Dr. Baryamureeba founded a new college that includes departments of computer science and computer engineering at creaky Makerere University, in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. At the top of a hill near the university’s entrance, overlooking the derelict law school to one side and a derelict school mosque to the other, two gleaming glass buildings went up seemingly without a hitch. So many undergraduates swarmed them that the faculty held classes at midnight to accommodate them.

Dr. Baryamureeba wanted more than a vocational school; he also created a graduate program he hoped would someday turn out dozens of Ph.D. scientists who would themselves become college professors and help push the boundaries of global research.

Improbably, his vision is gaining traction at Makerere. Young homegrown scientists there are now nearing completion of their Ph.D.’s. And faculty members are carrying out cutting-edge experiments. They are seeking to endow cellphones with the “intelligence,” embedded in tiny software programs animated by mathematical algorithms, to identify diseases in crops or malaria in a person’s bloodstream.

Science gives you power to create your own future.

This is so cool… don’t I wish I had taken programming classes. Maybe I could understand computer science and its potential applications to global issues better.