Yeah, he says that Lisp is too hard for the common man, and then sort of implies that this is because it doesn't use ALGOL derived syntax. I don't think that's the issue. It's not Mort who's fallen in love with ALGOL…
In this case your better off just reading Norvig's original presentation.
The thing about OOP is that it is described as way to make programming easier because objects are so "intuitive," and the examples for this are all toy simulations with naive object "models." What the post describes,…
My favorite book of this type is Thinking Forth, available online at http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/. You will get a large dose of the Forth mindset, but it's mostly higher level design tips and not as specific…
Is that Charley the Charley Shattuck mentioned in the 7/21 entry at http://www.ultratechnology.com/blog.htm? Looks like he's still working with Chuck. Lucky guy. The best thing about Forth is that it's the distilled…
Second the idea that a lot of statisticians don't know what they're doing. The first mistake is to make things easier by glossing over, or mangling, the mathematical details. Many statistics textbooks do this, and the…
It's not "different strokes," it's a change of perspective causing massive confusion all 'round. Computer science isn't a knock-off approximation of mathematics, it's a subfield of mathematics. Programming, which is…
Actually the whole av8n.com site is a great resource for anyone interested in learning more about physics. One of the reasons why I linked it ;).
The "nice little tear-down" is in the book review mentioned, but not linked, by the parent (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/unscientific_amer...). Apparently these guys aren't very fond of PZ, and he isn't…
It's true that the usual explanation with the Bernoulli effect is wrong, but the idea that the Coanda effect is important for normal flight is also wrong. The relationship between wing camber, angle of attack, and lift…
I don't understand your analogy. Is the Wizard of Oz repulsed because he thinks the illusion is bad, or because he knows how it's made? Would "This is the worst hunk-a-junk implementation of an illusion I've ever seen?"…
All religious traditions take guidance from more than just holy books (many religions do not even have holy books), and the idea (or assumption) that laypeople can determine religious truth by reading the holy book…
What about if nearly everyone is worse off? Putting the burden of responsibility on the actor is fine, but Swoopo is not in the same category as Starbucks and EA, and claiming that everyone participating in a capitalist…
Yeah but that doesn't explain why one would write a brainfuck interpreter in brainfuck. Day 163: Project complete. Strength nearly gone. Must.. complete... evaluation.... Data structures, godawful... string handling,…
Considerably less fun to toy around with now that the only way to get a non completely crippled version is to pay megabucks (or work at a company that develops in it). If I'm wrong, please please clue me in...
Or like extruding peacock feathers for any animal that doesn't have peacock feathers.
From the RTI website, a presentation they supposedly gave to the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute in April: A code of moral behavior for intelligent robots will be developed. Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws are…
They cite their sources - just follow the trail a few more steps. http://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR: At the sixth (System of Systems) level, which has not yet been implemented, the 4D/RCS serves as an…
If not realizing that 95% of your consumer loans (not just 95% of mortgages) are sub-prime mortgages, and then keeping them on the books because of what amounts to a pure gamble on housing prices isn't turning a blind…
It sounds pretty good when you focus on the payoff, gloss the probability of success (as if the difference between 77% and 0.002% is negligible, or either estimate is anything other than pure speculation), and ignore…
Sorry, it would be more accurate to restrict that to "Based on the above FAQs and other discussions on Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, cryonics advocates don't seem...." From…
Actually those FAQs do not challenge the central point of that blog post, which is that reasonable people can have wildly different estimates of the likelihood of successful preservation and reconstruction, and that…
The things which are lost with physical death are in constant flux, so they are constantly being lost anyway. Actually, no. When the Great Flux fluxes and the flux that is you goes away, it is not exactly the same thing…
Tell me why you're not just another dude with a cause who wants to tell other people how to spend their money, because that's what you sound like. Not to be combative, and I want to live for a thousand years as much as…
It's funny you say that, because I watched that this weekend, and liked it so much that I got a bunch of his movies. I enjoyed one or two more, then realized that they're all the same: guy gets married, guy is…
Yeah, he says that Lisp is too hard for the common man, and then sort of implies that this is because it doesn't use ALGOL derived syntax. I don't think that's the issue. It's not Mort who's fallen in love with ALGOL…
In this case your better off just reading Norvig's original presentation.
The thing about OOP is that it is described as way to make programming easier because objects are so "intuitive," and the examples for this are all toy simulations with naive object "models." What the post describes,…
My favorite book of this type is Thinking Forth, available online at http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/. You will get a large dose of the Forth mindset, but it's mostly higher level design tips and not as specific…
Is that Charley the Charley Shattuck mentioned in the 7/21 entry at http://www.ultratechnology.com/blog.htm? Looks like he's still working with Chuck. Lucky guy. The best thing about Forth is that it's the distilled…
Second the idea that a lot of statisticians don't know what they're doing. The first mistake is to make things easier by glossing over, or mangling, the mathematical details. Many statistics textbooks do this, and the…
It's not "different strokes," it's a change of perspective causing massive confusion all 'round. Computer science isn't a knock-off approximation of mathematics, it's a subfield of mathematics. Programming, which is…
Actually the whole av8n.com site is a great resource for anyone interested in learning more about physics. One of the reasons why I linked it ;).
The "nice little tear-down" is in the book review mentioned, but not linked, by the parent (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/unscientific_amer...). Apparently these guys aren't very fond of PZ, and he isn't…
It's true that the usual explanation with the Bernoulli effect is wrong, but the idea that the Coanda effect is important for normal flight is also wrong. The relationship between wing camber, angle of attack, and lift…
I don't understand your analogy. Is the Wizard of Oz repulsed because he thinks the illusion is bad, or because he knows how it's made? Would "This is the worst hunk-a-junk implementation of an illusion I've ever seen?"…
All religious traditions take guidance from more than just holy books (many religions do not even have holy books), and the idea (or assumption) that laypeople can determine religious truth by reading the holy book…
What about if nearly everyone is worse off? Putting the burden of responsibility on the actor is fine, but Swoopo is not in the same category as Starbucks and EA, and claiming that everyone participating in a capitalist…
Yeah but that doesn't explain why one would write a brainfuck interpreter in brainfuck. Day 163: Project complete. Strength nearly gone. Must.. complete... evaluation.... Data structures, godawful... string handling,…
Considerably less fun to toy around with now that the only way to get a non completely crippled version is to pay megabucks (or work at a company that develops in it). If I'm wrong, please please clue me in...
Or like extruding peacock feathers for any animal that doesn't have peacock feathers.
From the RTI website, a presentation they supposedly gave to the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute in April: A code of moral behavior for intelligent robots will be developed. Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws are…
They cite their sources - just follow the trail a few more steps. http://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR: At the sixth (System of Systems) level, which has not yet been implemented, the 4D/RCS serves as an…
If not realizing that 95% of your consumer loans (not just 95% of mortgages) are sub-prime mortgages, and then keeping them on the books because of what amounts to a pure gamble on housing prices isn't turning a blind…
It sounds pretty good when you focus on the payoff, gloss the probability of success (as if the difference between 77% and 0.002% is negligible, or either estimate is anything other than pure speculation), and ignore…
Sorry, it would be more accurate to restrict that to "Based on the above FAQs and other discussions on Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, cryonics advocates don't seem...." From…
Actually those FAQs do not challenge the central point of that blog post, which is that reasonable people can have wildly different estimates of the likelihood of successful preservation and reconstruction, and that…
The things which are lost with physical death are in constant flux, so they are constantly being lost anyway. Actually, no. When the Great Flux fluxes and the flux that is you goes away, it is not exactly the same thing…
Tell me why you're not just another dude with a cause who wants to tell other people how to spend their money, because that's what you sound like. Not to be combative, and I want to live for a thousand years as much as…
It's funny you say that, because I watched that this weekend, and liked it so much that I got a bunch of his movies. I enjoyed one or two more, then realized that they're all the same: guy gets married, guy is…