Patrick Skeels
@baslogic
philosopher | linguist | winsome rogue | fgc wannabe i teach philosophy at the university of kentucky papers here:
At first I was worried that he was talking about Chomskian nativism, but he is talking about a different thing.
My daily driver is nearly ten years old, so I gave it a tune up with new buttons, harnesses, and a JLX. The red is a bit ostentatious for my tastes, but I am in the arena trying things. Now, when I choke, I cannot blame it on the stick.
Update: I look like a dog that ate a bee. Still epistemically untouchable.
Just got gum grafts and the swelling is unreal. Finding comfort in the fact that no amount of swelling can harm me qua knower.
Here is a picture of me, brow furrowed, struggling with a notebook in the middle of my talk yesterday. Follow your dreams.
Observed a mother and child pair of quantifiers in the wild. By the summer, the child will leave its mother and begin binding its own variables.
My wife’s aunt was a storyteller so we have several cassette tapes of stories from my wife’s childhood. My daughter listens to them on a cassette player. I was getting a little tired of frozen and K-pop demon hunters so I got her a new tape. Now she runs around the house going ah-ah-aaaaaahh-ahh
Some years ago I bought an analogue pocket to play my (many) old game boy games. I was recently reminded that it runs on FPGA, so I dug around and found some cores online, and one thing led to another. Anyway, here’s Quake on a “Gameboy”.
Interesting fact: my copy of Deviant Logic was given to me by a retired math professor from SFSU. It was originally owned by David Copp, who would later become my teacher.