Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

When a subject is part of your everyday life, it tends to make its way into your dreams. It’s the way the mind constructs what dreams are. It can be unpredictable, it can be pretty weird, and it can tell you either something or nothing about what you were thinking that day. The “Tetris-effect” is…

I don’t recommend TV shows to people all that often. I’m choosing to make an exception for The Queen’s Gambit, a limited Netflix series that showed up during the last half of 2020. Now, before anyone points this out: I know that it’s a book first, and no, I haven’t read it (although certainly will…

Does anyone remember when Deep Blue was the best it could get for board games played by artificial intelligence? Let’s not brag about it too much, but today, Bridge Base Online has GIB. GIB is short for either Ginsberg’s Intelligent Bridgeplayer, or Goren-in-a-Box. I guess it depends who you ask. If you’re new to BBO,…