I must admit I'm having a hard time understanding Jeanette's "simple daily examples" (I'm taking this from the slides that Owen linked to; I didn't attend the talk itself). Knowledge of parallel processing would help me cook better? If I could remember those hashing algorithms I'd be able to clean the living room more effectively? Really? I mean, *really?*
And what about all those problems where CT is either unhelpful or plain wrong: learning Spanish, finding a meaning to life, finding the longest strand of spaghetti in a pack (OK, not sure why I'd want to do that but I know that CT won't help). Saying that CT is up there with reading riting and rithmetic is an awfully big claim. Not sure it's working for me yet... Robert On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Real thought does include agendas, goals and self interest, I > > "think." But real thought can be an imaginative, intuitive process, > > super conscious, e.g., Bach, Einstein? > She says "thinking recursively", "parallel processing", "interpreting > code as data and data as code", and "type checking and a generalization > of dimensional analysis", understanding the "virtues and dangers of > aliasing" are computational thinking. > > But then she goes on to say "Conceptualizing, not programming. Computer > science is not computer programming. Thinking like a computer scientist > means more than being able to program a computer. It requires thinking > at multiple levels of abstraction." > > Now, I like Computer Scientists, really I do, but I have to say I have > at least as much admiration for hackers who just invent and put aside > all of this self-aggrandizing crap. All of those things (e.g > recursively thinking, thinking at multiple levels of abstraction) any > decent programmer thinks about every day, AND while exercising their > imagination and intuition. > > Btw, today's Dilbert (http://www.dilbert.com) is a relevant snipe on a > related species of the theory guy. > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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