Nick -
"Does anybody know who it was or from what point of view they
were speaking when they referred to mathematics as "neutral" between
idealism and realism"
Just to elaborate on this, it is my understanding that: Mathematics
is for people who are bad at gambling !
Came across this when looking at Peter Naur's work on programming -
thought it might be interesting to some involved in the mathematics
issues of debate recently - especially the ones dealing with mathematics
privileged status.
... ignorance towards any form of knowledge other than the one
Dave,
Thanks for the quote, and it's wonderful insight.
Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato were excellent teachers. But the knowledge
they imparted contains artifacts - meaning errors and critical omissions -
that must be overcome even today.
The gist of the Gödel / Hilbert conflict is that it
Ken Lloyd wrote:
The gist of the Gödel / Hilbert conflict is that it changed the nature of
science from a search for the truth to separating what is probably true
from the demonstrably false. From H. Pollack -- Uncertain Science,
Uncertain World.
I'm not sure who I'm disagreeing with, here,
Amazon's S3 storage system was down for 8 hours due to a few bad
pieces of gossip (flipped bits resulting in well formed but untrue
pieces of information) passed between their servers. This bad
information resulted in a catastrophic cascade of gossip that lead to
a complete shut down of
I guess you mean the following article from AI Magazine:
From Society to Landscape: Alternative Metaphors for AI
http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/viewFile/896/814
Interesting. I have read The society of Mind a few years ago
- at least large parts of it - and I don't remember
Yes, maybe creativity is the point where art, science and engineering meet
each other. To create a new piece of art, to find a new theory, and to find
a
new way to construct something is similar: it is difficult, it requires
experience
and sometimes luck, and it is often considered as a
We've all heard about WYSIWYG but that just means your printer can
show what your screen shows. Nice but in the age of the net, WYSIWIS
is *much* more important -- What You See Is What I See.
By that I mean that I can have some confidence that what I'm sending
to you in email or posting
Just for tests, here is the rendering of the email I sent in
Thunderbird, and on our Nabble archive:
http://backspaces.net/temp/Safari001.png
http://backspaces.net/temp/Thunderbird001.png
Not too bad. Some font problems where the fonts render differently on
different platforms. And
Looks find in Gmail, although the URLs in the message are NOT hyperlink,
which they are in the Rich Text Format of Gmail.
-tj
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've all heard about WYSIWYG but that just means your printer can show
what your screen shows.
Yea, math is for people who are bad at gambling, but who also prefer not to
'cheat' by watching to see what's happening directly.
It's a guesser's tool, and in a few kinds of situations you don't need to
guess. You can sneak a peak and directly see.Like when all the
resources for an
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