incomplete track of market

20251114 Bitcoin was down 5.6% to about $97,200 into a bear market on Friday. Michael Burry of ‘Big Short’ fame is closing his hedge fund at the end of October, 2025. 20251112 Oil posts biggest drop since June: West Texas Intermediate fell by 4.2% to settle around $58.50 a barrel. OPEC said global crude supplies surpassed demand sooner than anticipated. Worldwide oil supplies exceeded demand by 500,000 barrels a day during the period. 20251111 In the early morning, there is a piece of news reporting from Bloomberg that SoftBank Group Corp. sold its entire stake in Nvidia Corp., pocketing $5.83 billion to help bankroll envisioned AI investment. Last time it’s 2019. CFO Yoshimitsu Goto said, “I can’t say if we’re in an AI bubble or not.” ...

October 29, 2025 · 5 min · un01s

Kant Critique of pure reason by Robert Paul wolff

Start to read the blog of Robert Paul wolff. Start to watch his lectures on Kant. video blog part 1 Reading the Critique Part I part 2 reading the Critique Part II part 3 reading the Critique Part III part 4 reading the Critique part IV part 5 reading the Critique part V part 6 reading the Critique part VI part 7 reading the Critique part VII part 8 reading the critique part VIII part 9 reading the Critique part IX From the wiki page: Kant builds on the work of empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume, as well as rationalist philosophers such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff. He expounds new ideas on the nature of space and time, and tries to provide solutions to the skepticism of Hume regarding knowledge of the relation of cause and effect and that of René Descartes regarding knowledge of the external world. This is argued through the transcendental idealism of objects (as appearance) and their form of appearance. Kant regards the former “as mere representations and not as things in themselves”, and the latter as “only sensible forms of our intuition, but not determinations given for themselves or conditions of objects as things in themselves”. This grants the possibility of a priori knowledge, since objects as appearance “must conform to our cognition…which is to establish something about objects before they are given to us.” Knowledge independent of experience Kant calls “a priori” knowledge, while knowledge obtained through experience is termed “a posteriori”.[2] According to Kant, a proposition is a priori if it is necessary and universal. A proposition is necessary if it is not false in any case and so cannot be rejected; rejection is contradiction. A proposition is universal if it is true in all cases, and so does not admit of any exceptions. Knowledge gained a posteriori through the senses, Kant argues, never imparts absolute necessity and universality, because it is possible that we might encounter an exception. ...

January 8, 2025 · 3 min · un01s

Are the ever-changing you still yourself?

Kant has four big questions for philosophy. What can I know? How should I act? For what can I hope? What is the human being? This writing has something to do with Kant’s last question. In the book of “Last Chance to See”, Douglas Adams told an anecdote about the Golden Pavilion Temple in Kyoto. “I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time sicne it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century.” ...

May 20, 2022 · 3 min · un01s