That is truly remarkable. I am philosophically uncertain whether this amount of time/dedication from such smart guy is actually positive effort to celebrate.
My thinking goes along this line: * The lessons to learn for the future - put stuff to public domain early enough - so that qualified people/librarians/historians can chose what to preserve and do it on cheap while it is fresh. * The fact that this smart guy spends many man years on studying the past without useful path to the future application - is a sign of lack of current scientific opportunities. * Surely - he should be very busy working on development of current landers to whatever planet and solar system we want to relocate our elite to save them from the climate destruction on this planet. ..... Tomas On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, 01:35 Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > Utterly pointless, and yet delightful! > > See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTa1RQxU04 > > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 23:00 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Completely wrong analogy Russell. > > > > What you are describing is not linguistics but archeology! > > > > Tomas > > > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 15:55 Russell Senior <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > The other thing I'd add is that you have an understanding that semantic > > > ambiguities have to be resolved somehow, and there is likely to be a > > marker > > > in the language for resolving those ambiguities, and so you pay > attention > > > to where those clues might be. > > > > > > Right now I am working on reverse engineering a communications protocol > > > internal to a particular series of models of the IBM Wheelwriter > > typewriter > > > (mine is a WW5), and understanding where information originates, and > > where > > > it needs to go is a huge help in puzzling out what is likely to be > going > > > on, and that if a letter comes out on the paper, it got there for a > > reason. > > > Eventually, this project will be offered as a potential PLUG talk. > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:40 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 14:38:17 -0700 > > > > Ali Corbin <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > > > > >No reference, but a personal anecdote. In my first job, back in > > > > >late 70's, the company was having problems finding people with CS > > > > >degrees. They ended up going to colleges and recruiting language > > > > >majors. > > > > > > > > I am a linguist, not a language major, but I have long observed that > > > > many language majors are such because they have found that they are > > > > good at learning languages. And as a linguist (and one who is also > good > > > > at learning languages), the key to being good at learning languages > is > > > > an ability to recognize complex patterns unconsciously and store them > > > > in the deeper parts of the brain. And the more languages you learn > the > > > > easier it is to learn new ones, even ones that are unrelated to your > > > > current languages. > > > > > > > > Those programmers who are proficient in more than one computer > language > > > > may find a kernel of truth in the above. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
