A life in words

  • Soy Combatiente

    Desde crío Me conducían el soñar. Todo era imposición. Desde niño Controlaban lo que iba a pensar. Mataban la ilusión. Lo que no mata, me fortalece hoy! Ser combatiente Me fortalece hoy, por hoy, por hoy! Y nunca quise ser igual. Nunca me latió ser del rebaño. Pensar tan diferente hoy, Hoy me tiene vivo…

  • Hubris

    When I saw that the various things I was working on and talking about with people brought a Tennyson poem, Doctrine and Covenants 45, a book about pre-Columbian civilizations, and my own poetic musings together in one place, I was filled with intellectual vanity. At his request, I started telling my professor my thoughts about…

  • Visualizing Texts as Networks

    For a recent project in my text mining class we were required to explore ways of visualizing textual data. This is a tricky problem due to the nature of text, mainly because it is both categorical and sparse. Visualizing numerical data is, relatively speaking, a piece of cake, because real numbers can all be related…

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883