Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] I read somewhere that for 90% of a wide class of computing problems, you only need 10% of the source code in Haskell, that you would in an imperative language.

Curt Sampson Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:22:33 -0700

On 2009-10-01 18:47 +0200 (Thu), Alberto G. Corona  wrote:

> May be because consciousness is relatively new and thus, not optimized.


Actually, no; our brains are very, very highly optimized. Only they're
optimized for minimum power usage, not making the best decisions.

For more information, see Read Montague's _Your Brain Is (Almost)
Perfect: How We Make Decisions_.

cjs
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