Stuff that is beautiful but useless because it does not make food or houses cheaper.
Or from Ciro Santilli's best random thoughts:
Without technology, one cannot survive. Without art, one cannot live.
But that sure enough has a Jesus semi-precursor, and likely many others: man shall not live by bread alone.
There is some art however that lives in the fine intersection between beauty and usefulness:
Ancestors
Incoming links
- Applications of particle physics
- Backward design
- Ciro Santilli's bad old event memory
- Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow contributions
- Ciro Santilli's website is not mobile friendly
- Computational physics
- Computer
- Computer programming
- Europe
- European Tower of Babel
- Formalization of mathematics
- Free gifted education
- Gao Qiu
- Having more than one natural language is bad for the world
- High-frequency trading as a form of Nirvana
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Nintendo 64
- Open source video game
- Physics
- Pop music
- Rooting for sport teams is stupid
- Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
- The art of programming
- Video game console
- Videos of all key physics experiments
- Don't force international exchange students to come back early