My son Peter's book Coders at Work is out and currently #7 overall
at Amazon.
Coders at Work is a book of QA with fifteen of the leading lights
of the of software industry.
You can see the full list at http://www.codersatwork.com
Peter has also put up a little essay on his blog at
It just fell to #8...hopefully with my recent purchase it is back to
#7 soon :-)
Congratulations to Peter, Fred!
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Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 09/23/2009 08:33 PM:
the third meeting of the emergence seminar is tomorrow at 4pm at DS. The
readings are Searle's REDUCTIONISM AND THE IRREDUCIBILITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and wimsatt's AGREGATIVITY: REDUCTIVE HEURISTICS FOR FINDING EMERGENCE both
from
Peter is quite a good writer. I worked through most of his online book
Practical Common Lisp and really enjoyed it - see www.gigamonkeys.com/book
.
;; Gary
On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Fred Seibel wrote:
My son Peter's book Coders at Work is out and currently #7 overall
at Amazon.
Congratulations to Peter (and Fred by extension)!
I have to admit that Knuth's quote on the website (Some Highlights)
rings way to true to me... but it undermines the principle of
re-useability and such.
I wonder if this is just "old-school" or if there is something to it.
I don't know how
Great, Glen,
I will set up a thread, Emergence Seminar, IV: Chapter 8, Bedau.
Nick
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[Original Message]
From: glen e. p.
Dear All,
We had a good meeting, at least 8 of us, even tho we lost Michel, who went back
to Paris. The first time it didnt actually RAIN duirng the meeting, so we were
able to sit outside.
For next week we will be reading the Mark Bedau chapter on weak emergence. I
think I have already
