michael_nielsen

A good day for amusing/great domain names. @arcalinea has the amazing http://possibility.space  (!) And @andy_matuschak's http://insight.porn  has just gone live (not at all NSFW).https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1174789824554815488 …

Congratulations to Andy for grabbing this, and I love the current front page!

I don't actually know what it means; this may be why I like it. (Andy has heard my rants often enough on research: although you can have systems & practices in research, the most important parts are always outside such practices. I like to think this is what N meant!)

I think he was referring to philosophical systems—Schopenhauer, Hegel. The impulse if you’ve got one is to fit everything into its structure, even if that means whacking square pegs into round holes and falsifying phenomena in an attempt at explaining everything

Interesting. I think of this as a very productive impulse in science! Eg you learn about gravity on earth and nearby... then use that explanation to try to explain everything everywhere with it (galaxy rotation curves! the Big Bang! etc). Very revealing.