I wanted to send this message out after the final status report, but since
that's indefinitely delayed (keep going!) I'm just going to do it now.
Easy question: has keeping this dialogue open been useful to the folks at VPRI,
or has it been more of a burden than anything else?
I can definitely
I don't think that's what the introduction implies. I'm going on a limb
here and assume that I your conclusion stems from the author's claim of
inability to separate meaning from mechanism, or even further, that
computation is not a special thing worth having a theory about?
Consider the author's
On 4/19/13, Simon Forman wrote:
> Shroup, http://www.lawsofform.org/
Ooops! That should be Shoup, not "Shroup".
"The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of
an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that
restrains and shelters him ca
This might be of interest. Over the last century a small group of
people, working largely independently and in isolation, have
discovered and refined an Universal Language.
This is a logic-symbolic notation, not a spoken language (i.e. not
like Esperanto), that captures and expresses the essence o
So who cares about functionality we need to mechanically refactor the glue.
On 19 April 2013 17:32, David Barbour wrote:
> But in this case you've got a square law in play (i.e. N^2 edges for N
> components). So the Pareto distribution becomes 96%-4%.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Casey
But in this case you've got a square law in play (i.e. N^2 edges for N
components). So the Pareto distribution becomes 96%-4%.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Casey Ransberger
wrote:
> WRT the 90% guess, I usually go for 80% on stuff like that when I make a
> SWAG where it smells like a Pareto
It's on the reading list now. Thank you!
On Apr 19, 2013, at 5:56 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
> Wow, automatic spelling correctors suck, especially early in the morning
>
> The only really good -- and reasonably accurate -- book about the history of
> Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no "D", that is when things
Wow, automatic spelling correctors suck, especially early in the morning
The only really good -- and reasonably accurate -- book about the history of
Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no "D", that is when things went bad), and Xerox PARC is
"Dream Machines" by Mitchell Waldrop.
Cheers,
Alan
>_
The only really good -- and reasonable accurate -- book about the history of
Lick, ARPA-IPTO (no "D", that is went things went bad), and Xerox PARC is
"Dream Machines" by Mitchel Waldrop.
Cheers,
Alan
>
> From: Miles Fidelman
>To: Fundamentals of New Computin
Casey Ransberger wrote:
This Licklider guy is interesting. CS + psych = cool.
A lot more than cool. Lick was the guy who:
- MIT Professor
- pioneered timesharing (bought the first production PDP-1 for BBN) and
AI work at BBN
- served as the initial Program Manager at DARPA/IPTO (the folks who
David Barbour writes:
> Well, communicating with genuine aliens would probably best be solved by
> multi-modal machine-learning techniques. The ML community already has
> techniques for two machines to "teach" one another their vocabularies, and
> thus build a strong correspondence. Of course, if
This Licklider guy is interesting. CS + psych = cool.
This conversation makes me think of things Hofstadter wrote about with
regard to isomorphism in Gödel, Escher, Bach.
I only have one or two very small things to contribute here. Esperanto
doesn't seem to have caught on, and sometimes a good id
WRT the 90% guess, I usually go for 80% on stuff like that when I make a
SWAG where it smells like a Pareto distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:52 PM, David Barbour wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2
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