I think Stephen is misrepresenting the Wolfram Language when he says it is a
big language. He is really talking about the built in library which is indeed
huge. The language proper is actually simple, powerful, and lispy.
-David
On Sep 24, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote:
that are worse can have more
mindshare in the arena of public opinion.
Worse is Better sounds like some kind of apology to me.
cheers,
-David Leibs
On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Chris Warburton chriswa...@googlemail.com wrote:
Unfortunately, a big factor is also the first-to-market pressure
In the spirit of equivocation when I look at the world we live in and and note
the trends then I feel worse, not better.
-David Leibs
On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:10 AM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
The phrase Worse is better involves an equivocation - the 'worse' and
'better
minutes then
I am not doing anything.
-David Leibs
On Jun 17, 2012, at 9:49 AM, GrrrWaaa wrote:
On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:17 PM, David Leibs wrote:
As children we spend a lot of time practicing adding up numbers. Humans are
very bad at this if you measure making a silly error as bad. Take
Thanks for the link. This thread has had me thinking quite a bit about the
Central Limit Theorem from probability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
It explains why so many of our measurements result in normal distributions.
-David Leibs
On Jun 17, 2012, at 9:36 AM, GrrrWaaa
this as an example
of going back and looking at a beginning that is hard to see because it is
just too darn fundamental.
We need to reduce complexity at all levels and that includes the culture we
swim in.
cheers,
-David Leibs
On Jun 15, 2012, at 10:58 AM, BGB wrote:
On 6/15/2012 12:27 PM, Paul Homer wrote
multiply then all is lost. I guess that's a job for the
motivation teacher. :-)
-David Leibs
On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
David Leibs david.le...@oracle.com writes:
I have kinda lost track of this thread so forgive me if I wander off
in a perpendicular
Your point about politics is so true.
Check out a great classic paper by Mel Conway at:
http://www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design
whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication
Old Timer Alert!Ah, 1956. I was seven years old and Robby the Robot from the science fiction movie "Forbidden Planet" had just leaped into popular culture. Robby was an awesome automatous AI. The movie was really quite something for 1956. Faster than light travel, cool space ship, 3d printers,
On Aug 17, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
There is a paper on PIE (and many other interesting systems) in
Barstow/Shrobe/Sandewall's Interactive Programming Environments. Used
copies for 1 cent (like many outdated computer books):
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0070038856
Hi Sean,
Two books that I like quite a lot are:
Anatomy of Lisp by John Allen. It's a classic from the golden age.
Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queninnec. It's a modern classic.
-David
On Aug 17, 2011, at 11:00 AM, DeNigris Sean wrote:
Alan,
While we're on the subject,
I couldn't handle his condescending attitude towards goto statements.
I might not use them very often but when you need one there is nothing better.
-David Leibs
On Jul 17, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Craig Latta wrote:
That talk would have been a whole lot better if he had grounded
, Parallel expression in the apl2 language, IBM Syst. J. 30
(1991), no. 4, 498–512.
-David Leibs
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To see how far you can scale visual node programming I recommend looking at
Pure Data, Quartz Composer, and LabView. Also interesting is Little Big Planet.
On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Brian Gilman wrote:
Clearly there are some gaps in the programming models of this new era.
How can people
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impossible in the the traditional open-
source project. It's just an experiment, though. It's research (or,
if you prefer, intellectual masturbation). If we already knew the
outcome, it wouldn't be research, would it?
-- Max
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:33 AM, David Leibs
david.le...@oracle.com wrote
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