2012-01-25T13:00:00+01:00 http://ze.phyr.us/ Mathematics, philosophy, programming, in-line skating, and everything in between. http://ze.phyr.us/favicon.png Vita Smid http://ze.phyr.us me@ze.phyr.us http://ze.phyr.us/:152 2012-01-25T13:00:00+01:00

In three weeks, I will be on a plane to Melbourne, Australia. A six-month adventure begins!

http://ze.phyr.us/going-to-australia http://ze.phyr.us/:151 2012-01-12T20:00:00+01:00

In finance and economics we recognize several types of money. Monetary aggregates are used to measure the supply of various types of money in an economy. The most commonly used aggregates are M0 through M3, plus monetary base. See the following diagram to understand how the aggregates relate to each other.

http://ze.phyr.us/monetary-aggregates-definition http://ze.phyr.us/:150 2012-01-07T08:00:00+01:00

Sometimes the world comes crashing down. We’ve all known the triggers of major crises. Physical illness, relationship difficulties, stress, or depression. These things occasionally pay a visit. Sometimes all of them at once. But they have a reason for coming. They’re not setbacks. They’re not here to hurt. They are great opportunities to pause your life and think for a while how you got here and where are you going. A crisis is a lesson.

http://ze.phyr.us/why-you-should-like-crises http://ze.phyr.us/:149 2012-01-04T17:00:00+01:00

My 2012 New Year Wish has some beautiful mathematics: beautifully simple, beautifully abstract, and beautifully mysterious. Want to peek under her skirts?

http://ze.phyr.us/the-mathematics-of-happy-new-year http://ze.phyr.us/:148 2011-12-31T19:30:00+01:00

http://ze.phyr.us/happy-new-year-2012 http://ze.phyr.us/:147 2011-12-10T15:30:00+01:00

Never lift you hand from the finished work, for you could actually finish it.

http://ze.phyr.us/seneca-unfinished-relationships http://ze.phyr.us/:146 2011-11-12T20:40:00+01:00

For something that does not even exist, the future seems to be a rather obsessive theme for humans. How to face it?

http://ze.phyr.us/the-future http://ze.phyr.us/:145 2011-11-06T20:00:00+01:00

For a while I turned up the volume, closed my eyes, and let the music flood my mind. As always, the sound brought with it a stream, a river, a voracious torrent of memories. Memories half-forgotten and vividly remembered, memories of happiness and of pain, memories of love and loss. Memories, rivers of life. Yet rivers never twice entered.

http://ze.phyr.us/the-greatest-treasure http://ze.phyr.us/:144 2011-11-02T23:47:00+01:00

Hacking together concepts from mathematical analysis, mathematical logic, and computer science and finding similarities while half asleep can be fun! :-)

http://ze.phyr.us/late-night-meeting-of-godel-and-turing http://ze.phyr.us/:142 2011-10-31T14:00:00+01:00

In my personal philosophy, I’m leaning towards determinism: the view that our actions, decisions, and destinies are somehow decided – determined – in advance. However, I am able to differentiate at least between two types of determinism. Both have their issues, both need to be thought through more, and neither of them wins the argument for me. What about you?

http://ze.phyr.us/do-you-believe-in-determinism-and-which-one