“R22” – An Unbreakable, Un-hackable, Friend-to-Friend Encryption System

This project begins a discussion of creating a secure “friend-to-friend” messaging scheme that involves only ordinary computers on the “surface web, does not depend on the difficulty of factoring, is impervious to any kind of deliberate or accidental backdoors, does not use any third party random number generators, and is unbreakable in any reasonable amount of time

Amistad y filosofía según Aristóteles

This paper concentrates on friendship as the best context to philosophize. Although Aristotle says that even alone a person could contemplate the truth, it is possible to argue that a philosophical society is indeed necessary for human beings. In every friendship, it is necessary to share certain activities and, at the same time, notice the presence of the friend. In philosophical friendship, the shared activity is philosophy itself and mutual knowledge among friends acquires a peculiar character, because everyone does not only consider the truth with the friend but also he thinks about it as shared with the friend. To teach philosophy represents a kind of unequal friendship, because teachers give to the disciples the great good of knowledge. Further, the paper argues that Aristotelian friendship could not be understood in a narcissistic way, since friends are loved because of their uniqueness and their personal character

A Postcard Autobiography: Jurek Becker’s Unnarrated Response to the Holocaust

As the child of German-Polish Jews living in Łódź in the 1930s and ‘40s, Jurek Becker sustained losses—of his mother, of his childhood, and of his memories of that time period—that haunted him long into adulthood. A short autobiographical text that he wrote a few months before his death from cancer in 1997, sent in the form of a postcard to his friend Joachim Sartorius, employs a kind of ellipsis, interestingly unmarked by any typographical symbols, that stands in for those losses. What Becker does not write in his postcard text is as important as what he does write. This essay sheds light on the way in which the gaps in Becker’s text serve as the actual communicators of its theme, expands upon Robyn Warhol’s categories of the “unnarratable,” and explores what Becker’s text might tell us about the concept of the unnarrated in general

A Flamboyant Fighter – Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh, a famous name in the world of cricket.  He is such a kind of person and a sportsman who does not require introduction.  Cricket fans see him as a stylish player who hits the ball with brutality, but there is a soft-hearted, gentle person somewhere deep inside.  One of his childhood neighboring friend was my colleague at that time.  After 20 years down the line he is my closest friend. From him only, I come to know about Yuvaj and his life.  According to him, Yuvi is a great friend and a nice human being. Great friend, because he is the one who takes initiative to collect all the yesteryear friends and meet at one place and nostalgic time together. Nice human being, because he participates in many charitable events charging no money. He also runs a charity foundation, which provides aid and economic support who are fighting life-threatening diseases, mainly cancer

DRAUGO konceptas publicistikoje

This article deals with the contents of friend based on the different forms of the noun friend (Lith. draugas). A balance is drawn between the structural and cognitive approach to its meaning. The study is grounded on 700 publicistics sentences collected in the Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language compiled by the Centre for Computational Linguistics at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.The study has showed that friend is perceived as a person who acts out of love at a certain place and time.In terms of love, there are friends that are tied (rather) by bonds of fellow-feeling (The Dictionary of the Standard Lithuanian Language – DSLLe friend definition 1, 2) (In the beginning, they were huge friends and liked each other a lot; Friends love you) and those who (rather) share bodily intimacy (DSLLe friend definition 3). On the basis of the criterion of love, the relationship between a person and their friend can revolve in circles: a friend by DSLLe definition 1 or 2 becomes a friend by DSLLe definition 3 (After all, our friends, then families would begin and end in theatre), and vice-versa; a friend by DSLLe definition 2 can become a friend by DSLLe definition 1, and so on. In other words, friendship as fellow-feeling can transform into bodily love, and once bodily love goes away, friends, as husband and wife, can become/remain friends again as very close acquaintances.Someone who loves themselves unconditionally knows how to love another person that way. This kind of friend favours themselves and the other person. Mutual favour unfolds over time spent together, when mutual affinity is found/discovered. That time creates good, real friends that become a value (I treasure good friends the most. We have a bunch of very good mates that we have jolly good time with. We talk, we dance. Or we simply spend time in very comfortable silence).To be a friend, is to become a friend (DSLLe friend definition 1–3 vs. DSLLe friend definition 4). To oneself, first and foremost. The type of friend a person is to themselves is usually revealed through the person’s (myself) relationship with another person they know to a greater or lesser extent. That other person can either be a familiar (DSLLe friend definition 3) or strange (DSLLe friend definition 1, 2) person and/or non-person. Friendship between a person and a thing is a one-way street: it is untrue. What matters in this type of friendship, is not the time spent together, but rather benefit and/or pleasure. In other words, the person (myself) cannot be defined through the understanding of friend, i.e. on the basis of the criterion of similarity: tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are.In terms of time, friends can be defined to a lesser or greater extent (DSLLe friend definition 1, 3 (These friends of father’s go back to Smetona’s era; the friend of my life) resp. DSLLe friend definition 2 (Could it be that she only remained a mere dodgeball friend?)). This is also more or less the case in point when it comes to the aspect of location: well-defined (DSLLe friend definition 3), better-defined (DSLLe friend definition 2; cf.: my roommate) or undefined (DSLLe friend definition 1) friends.The friendship between man and God can be one-way (from God to man) an (become) two-way (between God and man). They both are driven by love, hence are real.Šio straipsnio objektas – draugo samprata daiktavardžio draugas formų pagrindu. Struktūrinis požiūris į reikšmę čia derinamas su kognityviniu. Remiantis Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos tekstyno (DLKT ) publicistikos medžiaga, kalbama apie tai, kaip dabartinės lietuvių kalbos vartotojas suvokia draugą. Tyrimas parodė, kad pagal aptariamojo žodžio valentinius aktantus ir predikatus, kurių aktantu jis pats eina, draugas – tai tam tikru laiku tam tam tikroje vietoje iš meilės veikiantis žmogus

Respecting One's Fellow: QBism's Analysis of Wigner's Friend

According to QBism, quantum states, unitary evolutions, and measurement operators are all understood as personal judgments of the agent using the formalism. Meanwhile, quantum measurement outcomes are understood as the personal experiences of the same agent. Wigner's conundrum of the friend, in which two agents ostensibly have different accounts of whether or not there is a measurement outcome, thus poses no paradox for QBism. Indeed the resolution of Wigner's original thought experiment was central to the development of QBist thinking. The focus of this paper concerns two very instructive modifications to Wigner's puzzle: One, a recent no-go theorem by Frauchiger and Renner, and the other a thought experiment by Baumann and Brukner. We show that the paradoxical features emphasized in these works disappear once both friend and Wigner are understood as agents on an equal footing with regard to their individual uses of quantum theory. Wigner's action on his friend then becomes, from the friend's perspective, an action the friend takes on Wigner. Our analysis rests on a kind of quantum Copernican principle: When two agents take actions on each other, each agent has a dual role as a physical system for the other agent. No user of quantum theory is more privileged than any other. In contrast to the sentiment of Wigner's original paper, neither agent should be considered as in "suspended animation." In this light, QBism brings an entirely new perspective to understanding Wigner's friend thought experiments.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figur

Letter from M. Dekirwan to John Muir, 1895 Jul 3.

Bordeaux July 3rd 1895.John Muir, Esq\u27reCalifornia.My dear Sir,One of the most agreeable surprises ever felt since I left San Francisco was for me when your so very interesting work, The Mountains of California reached my solitary home a few days ago; and I very heartily thank you not only for the valuable gift it really is for one, but also and above all for your so flattering and kind recollection of the friend of old California days. Be sure that very pleasant memories I myself entertain and cherish, with a kind of religious devotion, of those agreeable days you so delicately allude to;[in margin: Kirwan]6401999 and that I am not only charmed by your friendly address, but also feel in some way proud of it, I must confess, carrying in itself, as it does, the flattering and perhaps a little conceited evidence that the old saying, out of sight, out of mind, is altogether erroneous, so far as I am peronaly concerned. That is not a light satisfaction, I must say, for a man of my age (79.), after an absence of seventeen years and more from California and my friends of younger days. Therefore, Dear friend Muir, please accept my best thanks together with the expression of my most sincere wishes for your health and happiness.Very affectionately yours,M. De Kirwa

Calvinist Metaphysics to Republican Theory: Jonathan Edwards and James Dana on Freedom of the Will

The Reverend Mr. James Dana, the pastor of the First Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, had never before attempted to pick a quarrel with his old friend and ally, Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale College. But in the winter of 1782 what was happening at Yale passed all the bounds of propriety and friendship. I have understood that Mr. Edwards\u27s book on fatality was laid aside some years since at your university, Dana wrote (not stopping to add what he surely must have thought, and good riddance too); but now, it gave me pain to hear lately that the divinity professor, the epileptic Samuel Wales, particularly recommends this book to the young gentlemen who are studying divinity under his direction. Have you forgotten, Dana irritably asked, what kind of damage Jonathan Edwards and his Careful and Strict Enquiry in the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, which is supposed to be essential to Moral Agency, Vertue and Vice, Reward and Punishment had done since the book appeared in 1754? I need not say to you, sir, that it has been the root of bitterness which has troubled us...like Achan in the camp of Israel, Hopkintonianism, Westianism, and Schism are grafted upon it. It promoted fatalism and mechanism, and if mechanism doth not explode moral good and evil, I have not the slightest pretence to any mental discernment. Not only mechanism and fatalism, Murrayism, Deism, and atheism also sprang indiscriminately from the head of Edwards\u27s book; Dana even blamed the sensational murder-suicide of William Beadle that summer on the principles of Mr. Edwards\u27s system. Suppress the book, Dana pleaded, interpose your good influence, that so dangerous a book be not introduced into college again. [excerpt

First Cotton

As a boy, I rode a bicycle all over Evergreen, Alabama. I could go anywhere, though a few places (particularly the “black sections”) created a bit of anxiety on occasion. The only restriction my parents imposed was that I not ride after dark, for the bike had no fenders (and thus no lights or reflectors of any kind). It was not unusual for me to ride across town to visit a friend and cover several miles at a time. The sturdy bike’s large, knobby, heavy-duty tires made every terrain accessible in an era before anyone used the designation “trail bike.

Tribute

I spent my third year of law school in 1995-1996 at Boston University as a visiting student from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Although personal reasons brought me to Boston that year, one reason brought me to B.U. -- Betsy Clark, a scholar whose work I had long admired and who had agreed to take me on as her student. I knew what a top-notch historian Betsy was, but I could not have known when I arrived at B.U. what a great teacher, generous mentor, and kind friend she would be