Carlos,
I think that was my point, although I am starting to get confused. (see
below).
It makes no sense to speak of mind as IN the body because it is an activity
OF the body.
Nick
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My wife found an excellent book that appears to have a number of interesting
connections to MOTH, NetLogo implementations, and emergent properties of
stochastic systems: "Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern
Chance" by Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler. The original German ISBN:
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Gak!, Phil,
Reminds me of that anecdote that is designed to show the fallacy of
induction.
Drunk falls off the patio of the 14th floor of an apartment abuilding. On
every patio for the 13 floors below, is, (as it happens) an eager
psychology student ready to record the drunk's reactions as he g
Carlos Gershenson wrote:
Crude quantitative measures are no good. For instance, the intro of OO
techniques can increase functionality with sometimes a decrease in the
number of lines of code. An example close to home for me was the
change from EcoLab 3 to EcoLab 4. The number of lines h
Like weighing Stroustrup versus Kernighan & Richie ?? I think the C++
book weighs 4 times as much as the C book, but I'm sure C++ is more
than 4 times as powerful...
Cheers
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:36:00PM +0200, Carlos Gershenson wrote:
> > Crude quantitative measures are no good. For instanc
> Crude quantitative measures are no good. For instance, the intro of OO
> techniques can increase functionality with sometimes a decrease in the
> number of lines of code. An example close to home for me was the
> change from EcoLab 3 to EcoLab 4. The number of lines halved, but
> functionality wa
Crude quantitative measures are no good. For instance, the intro of OO
techniques can increase functionality with sometimes a decrease in the
number of lines of code. An example close to home for me was the
change from EcoLab 3 to EcoLab 4. The number of lines halved, but
functionality was increase
Dear Robert,Similarly, who says I can't have a mind without a body? Won't it carry on existing in the mind of the Intelligent Designer?You could say so, just as a Linux OS could be sitting in a CD... but it wouldn't function, so for practical purposes, it is as good as non-existant. Thus, a mind ne
> I wouldn't be surprised if software development was actually
> exponential, however it is harder to measure improvement, and the
> improvement is not a smooth as hardware improvement.
I guess that we would like to have a general measure of the growth of
software complexity, but I don't know if
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