“I burned my life, that I might find
A passion wholly of the mind,
Thought divorced from eye and bone,
Ecstasy come to breath alone.
I broke my life, to seek relief
From the flawed light of love and grief.
“With mounting beat the utter fire
Charred existence and desire.
It died low, ceased its sudden thresh.
I had found unmysterious flesh—
Not the mind’s [...]
The Alchemist
Side Effects
Unexpected side effects can be a serious pain in day-to-day life. They’re also one of the major issues in developing software.
t’s a problem of complexity. Computers are unfailingly methodical and logical; they do exactly what they are told. This makes them a fantastic crutch for the human mind, because they can handle enormously complex sets [...]