That is golden advice! Also, be careful with power screwdrivers, they offer speed and the illusion of power, but much less control and feeling, increasing the chance of wrecking the screw head and/or screwing too tight…
Someone recently suggested this book [1] to me. I'm still reading it, but enjoying the ride so far. The 'shift of power away from the government' argument is just one of the arguments made in the book, and author Linsey…
About the "Superstition in the pigeon" link: Kind of painfull that you link to Skinner's (pretty much) only ill-done research; See J.E.R. Staddon for a nice refutation of 'the superstition in the pigeon' experiment.
I do not find procedural code unreadable, nor is that what I meant to say. Rather the contrary: I said that OOP is only better if the same problem solved in OOP is more readable, which holds only true for a subset of…
I was also disappointed by the atricle's end: Pretty much only the Dijksta quote was worth reading. The title promised to backup the claim with a real-world experience of OOP, but alas, it did not deliver such. OOP is…
Saying that all systems have intelligence == anthropomorphizing all systems IF AND ONLY IF you consider intelligence to be a uniquely human trait. A more useful distinction for the realm of intelligence could be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
That is golden advice! Also, be careful with power screwdrivers, they offer speed and the illusion of power, but much less control and feeling, increasing the chance of wrecking the screw head and/or screwing too tight…
Someone recently suggested this book [1] to me. I'm still reading it, but enjoying the ride so far. The 'shift of power away from the government' argument is just one of the arguments made in the book, and author Linsey…
About the "Superstition in the pigeon" link: Kind of painfull that you link to Skinner's (pretty much) only ill-done research; See J.E.R. Staddon for a nice refutation of 'the superstition in the pigeon' experiment.
I do not find procedural code unreadable, nor is that what I meant to say. Rather the contrary: I said that OOP is only better if the same problem solved in OOP is more readable, which holds only true for a subset of…
I was also disappointed by the atricle's end: Pretty much only the Dijksta quote was worth reading. The title promised to backup the claim with a real-world experience of OOP, but alas, it did not deliver such. OOP is…
Saying that all systems have intelligence == anthropomorphizing all systems IF AND ONLY IF you consider intelligence to be a uniquely human trait. A more useful distinction for the realm of intelligence could be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing