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
Great, Glen,
I will set up a thread, Emergence Seminar, IV: Chapter 8, Bedau.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p.
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
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.
"C
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 B
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It just fell to #8...hopefully with my recent purchase it is back to
#7 soon :-)
Congratulations to Peter, Fred!
-Stephen
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My son Peter's book "Coders at Work" is out and currently #7 overall
at Amazon.
"Coders at Work" is a book of Q&A 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 h