So the great Pele called soccer, or football to most of the world. I’ve been whetting the appetite today for World Cup 2010 by checking out FIFA’s site and enjoying highlights from Cups past, such as this amazing goal, my favorite of 2006; it’s too bad the video is choppy, due to someone’s Tivo perhaps, [...]
I came across this excellent citation of Carl Sagan: In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know, that’s a really good argument, my position is mistaken,” and then they actually change their minds, and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as [...]
The question persists. From The Fourth Paradigm, p. xxix We are trying to objectify knowledge. We can help with basic things like units, and what is a measurement, who took the measurement, and when the measurement was taken. These are generic things and apply to all fields. Here [at Microsoft Research] we do computer science. [...]