A Very Short Introduction to Everything:
http://images.amazon.com/media/i3d/01/final_version_of_vsie.pdf
.. is an overview of the A Very Short Introduction series from
Oxford Press.
Its an interesting series of books attempting to be brief, pocketable
and good surveys of whatever catches
Synchronicity! I just read your post after getting back from Borders where
Martha had just bought VSIs to Game Theory (which I'll probably steal) and
Intelligence.
Robert
P.S. I highly recommend the VSI to the Philosophy of Science. Should be
compulsory reading for anyone who dares to use the
From the 1st intro, How on earth did we get here?
Even Albert Einstein found
himself misled by preconceptions when, in 1917, he fudged his
equations describing a mathematical model of the universe to make
it static and unchanging, as he though it should be. When, 12
years later, Edwin Hubble
Friends:
I think this new tool, Magic/Replace, might be useful to many of you --
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It's a Web-based tool that helps you clean data. Click Watch the
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-- tj
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Institute
See the editorial and the interview
http://tinyurl.com/57ovw4
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Of late, I've become interested (AKA mildly obsessed) in/with William
Wimsatt's work. (hmmm, U of Chicago, aren't some folks recently in the
news from there?) Always liked the notion of processes selecting for
accessibility (to maybe see what I'm talking about, study the Hasegawa
dyptich
Here's what Wimsatt says about how to decide what's real (from the Ontology
of Complex
Systemshttp://www.institutnicod.org/Reduction/7.OntComplSys.pdfpaper,
page 2).
Before I say what there is in this complex world, I should give my criteria
for regarding something as real or trustworthy. ... I
Fair point if he was talking about science and how its done. But it
seems to me this was about ontology. (Yeah, he's got some chops in
science and engineering, and yeah, the referral was from Corfield who
worries a lot about how math communities work, but this is maybe not
about science per
