Ismayil Shahaliyev

I briefly narrated how I accidentally stumbled upon a masterpiece of autobiography titled Becoming Myself in my now old essay on a Kubrick movie.

My previous writing from almost two years ago had an influence on my life.

There are things in life worth striving for.

Terry Gilliam is an amazing director.

When I turned 12, I had a chance to read Shakespeare.

Recently, I came across the Gaia hypothesis.

I was going through my old clutter of documents trying to sort them.

We can prove the existence of atoms, the smallest unit of matter, by mere logic, via reductio ad absurdum.

For some time, I find it difficult not to grow irritated by others’ behavior, especially when it seems unfair in relation to me.

Instead of directly translating the ancient Greek word philotimia as amor honoris (love of honor) into Latin, the ancient Roman authors chose the closest equivalent, ambitio.

After Bacon, we go back in time to the fourth century.

Ambition – philotimia (φιλοτιμία), love of honor.

What if, each day, I tackled a single virtue or vice and observed it in my own behavior.

In ancient Greece, moral virtue was tied to physical fitness.

I (very concisely) explain the fundamentals of getting good at chess: Learn the basics via lichess.org/learn or some other resource.

Dr.

There are a few blogs I find useful and visit occasionally.

Testing out pin, tags, and image.

Testing Notes.

Oxuyacağınız əlyazma babam Şahəliyev İsmayıl Əziz oğlu tərəfindən 2008-ci ildə qələmə alınmışdır.

The following material was initially prepared as a lecture for ENCE 3503: Data & Information Engineering (Fall 2024) course at ADA University.

With the fallen zenith of the Summer sun, my reverence in front of books and great minds disappears.

Twenty-five is a mathematically precise moment to stop and reflect on life and beliefs.

Descartes said cogito ergo sum.

The Autodidact (Self-taught man), a character in the book of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, has a system.

This is an essay of a very bad taste.

What is the purpose of arguing with another person?

Image made by the author on canva.com Before Nineteen Eighty-Four, I had already read some of George Orwell’s essays: Why I Write (1946) and Politics and the English Language (1946), as well as the transcript of Literature and Totalitarianism (1941) — Orw…

Matthew Modine as Private James T.

The Roman Emperor Vespasian was making tough and consequential decisions while being terminally ill in his bed.