Paul Davies doesn't get the point in this NYTimes article, and his comparison of science and religion is not very successful or useful, but he raises an...
JONATHAN HAIDT on the edge: "I used to dislike all religions, back when I thought of them as systems of belief that helped individuals understand the world and...
During the day, we all share the same world. During the night, each of us lives in his own world. And this change continues day by day. 6,6 billion little...
Unusual post perhaps? I'm not familiar with exactly what is usual. :-) After thinking awhile, I concluded it would be perhaps advisable to ask what part of...
The issue is seen differently today. Quantum mechanics has cast a deep shadow over causality, at least in microscopic domains. And "deterministic chaos" has...
New Dr. Dobbs Article about Tag Clouds http://www.ddj.com/web-development/204800620 Create your own tag cloud from any text to visualize word frequency ...
http://www.haskell.org/ Haskell is an advanced purely functional programming language. The product of more than twenty years of cutting edge research, it...
It would be nice if it had a decent development environment. ... -- -- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science ...
Purely functional languages are out. They were modern twenty years ago in the 80s. Haskell has some interesting features, for example (parallel) list...
Ruby has been on the periphery of my awareness for a long time now. I've never written any Ruby code, but I know it has a number of functional features. I...
Haskell is an interesting choice for teaching and learning functional programming. It is probably much better than Ruby for this purpose. On the other hand, ...
I'm looking for young beautiful, music person for dating and networking who might love Pascal and Modula because the world has gone mad and its still cool. ......
Mel Greaves argues in his book "Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy" that cancer development is a remarkably similar process to evolution itself. During the...
The total virtual world population by end of 2007 is roughly about 35 million active users. This means there are as many people playing in online words as ...
"Terror, like ecstasy, tends to magnify perceptions. Just as affection becomes adoration in the physical act of love, so too does vigilance sometimes become...
MDD no longer stands for Model Driven Development - the motto is now "Every Meeting Is a Good Meeting". http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=84...
Developers Shift to Dynamic Programming Languages http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_computer/computer/homepage/Feb07/COM_012-015.pdf Invasion Of The...