TCL/Tk, eh? Minsky is an graphically-based open-source dynamical
systems simulator I've mostly written using TCL/Tk that weighs in
around 10K lines. I've often fantasised about porting it to a
different toolkit, one that supports web browsers, and/or tablets. Qt
being one possibility.
Remind me no
Hi friam@redfish.com,
Merle Lefkoff forwarded this article to you from Reader Supported News:
FOCUS | John Oliver: "There Is a Lot of Bullshit Masquerading as Science"
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/36780-focus-john-oliver-qthere-is-a-lot-of-bullshit-masquerading-as-scie
I've done a completely "off my lawn" thing over the past few weeks.
Playing Mahjong solitaire on Ubuntu is one of my vices, but I don't like
the way the supplied program works in many ways. At least twice I've
downloaded the source for gnome-mahjongg and looked at it until my eyes
started bleedin
If you have a closure over the whole universe and you are given one knob to
turn, and once doing so out pops a new projection of the world you can see,
then you 1) don't necessarily see the whole universe, but 2) can potentially be
a specialist in the things that are observable in that projectio
You're dancing around the fundamental point: Can abstraction layers be
closures? And that's the essence of complexity theory, the study of what and
how some thing is reducible to the inner layers (or what and how expands to the
outer layers). Can you really understand Go just by knowing the
"So, I'm glad it's all peek&poke these days. It means we're builing shoulders
on which later generations stand. The opposite situation would be _sad_, say
if everyone had to learn quantum mechanics just to add numbers together ... or
if everyone had to know how to surface mount with a hot plat
There is (at least in me) an ongoing brawl between (at least) 2 homunculi: the one that embraces novel
situations where I have zero knowledge or control and have to "live in the present" versus the one
that embraces knowledge and control. As I age, the latter usually has the upper hand. (Duri
In the early days of Linux there was a period where they fastest way to figure
out what was going on was to grab the source and study it. Contrast that with
the current world of Stack Exchange and Google.There’s enough information
out there that I suspect many people may never learn to do
I think it's pretty funny. The singularity happened before the millennium,
when our libraries outgrew our ability to thoroughly test or understand
them. In mere decades the artificial universe, starting from nothing, had
become as mysterious as reality.
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On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:18 PM,
In the words of the (in)famous Ross Perot, "Now, that's just sad."
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, glen wrote:
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> Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
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> http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206&imm_mid=0e370a&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20160507
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> ⛧ glen
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Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206&imm_mid=0e370a&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20160507
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On 05/07/2016 08:12 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight
I'm not sure why you forwarded that. But if your purpose was to either depress
us and/or send us flying into rant
Nick did you ever find those books?
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Nick Thompson
wrote:
> Dear Friammers,
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> Forgive me, but I have become even more deciduous than usual in recent
> days. Did anybody see the two books I brought to FRIAM, by DS Wilson and
> EF Keller, after I left?
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