WRT the 90% guess, I usually go for 80% on stuff like that when I make a
SWAG where it smells like a Pareto distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:52 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
This Licklider guy is interesting. CS + psych = cool.
This conversation makes me think of things Hofstadter wrote about with
regard to isomorphism in Gödel, Escher, Bach.
I only have one or two very small things to contribute here. Esperanto
doesn't seem to have caught on, and sometimes a good
The only really good -- and reasonable accurate -- book about the history of
Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no D, that is went things went bad), and Xerox PARC is
Dream Machines by Mitchel Waldrop.
Cheers,
Alan
From: Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
To:
It's on the reading list now. Thank you!
On Apr 19, 2013, at 5:56 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Wow, automatic spelling correctors suck, especially early in the morning
The only really good -- and reasonably accurate -- book about the history of
Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no D, that
So who cares about functionality we need to mechanically refactor the glue.
On 19 April 2013 17:32, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
But in this case you've got a square law in play (i.e. N^2 edges for N
components). So the Pareto distribution becomes 96%-4%.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at
This might be of interest. Over the last century a small group of
people, working largely independently and in isolation, have
discovered and refined an Universal Language.
This is a logic-symbolic notation, not a spoken language (i.e. not
like Esperanto), that captures and expresses the essence
On 4/19/13, Simon Forman forman.si...@gmail.com wrote:
Shroup, http://www.lawsofform.org/
Ooops! That should be Shoup, not Shroup.
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of
an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that
restrains
I wanted to send this message out after the final status report, but since
that's indefinitely delayed (keep going!) I'm just going to do it now.
Easy question: has keeping this dialogue open been useful to the folks at VPRI,
or has it been more of a burden than anything else?
I can
