So do you suppose Michaelangelo was making subtle tweaks to the hunk of marble he found David inside of?
Ok,back to your regularly scheduled programming... ________________________________ From: alex <[email protected]> To: Raoul Duke <[email protected]> Cc: Ppig-Discuss-List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, March 29, 2010 3:53:48 PM Subject: Re: models of creativity in programming On 29 March 2010 21:25, Raoul Duke <[email protected]> wrote: > touche: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm Yes, Paul Graham really shouldn't pretend to speak on behalf of a whole culture. Also he clearly knows nothing about the research community he rails against in the same paper: "The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper." I guess he's not seen the proceedings of ISMIR, for example. Here's a rather extensive commentary: http://home.comcast.net/~dness/notes/graham5.html alex -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
