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 [...]
Take this from a 1975 book, that To make computer processing of languages (programming languages today and, maybe, natural languages in the future) possible, a formal theory of languages has been constructed. The primary concern of these mathematical linguistics is language syntax, since no formal means of completely specifying semantics exists. [Vladimir Zwass] Now, I [...]
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. [...]
Nor better pills to make you smarter, nor… whatever ridiculous “news” headline that Yahoo! concocts, but rather because literature and such are fun too, two new Goodreads reviews, or micro-reviews/impressions: Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds My rating: 3 of 5 stars One may [...]
that poem is. Other things, to wit: a friend of mine has a blog about sports that you may enjoy, at My Sports/Complex. I like his thoughts on Beckham, who for all the celebrity brouhaha, is a damn solid soccer player and refreshingly diminished of ego. Speaking of the beautiful game, the Sounders played poorly [...]
One of my Goodreads friends posted this review. To this, I must say, “no.” 10/28 Eddie Watkins gave 5 stars to: Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems by Bill Berkson bookshelves: poetry Though mostly grey now he’s still one of the sunniest poets around. I like his work for so many reasons: the humor, [...]