Thank you Brian for your "call for order" and Chris for summarizing the topics :) Re. accepted fact v.s. matter of debate: I strongly believe that the reason...
Interesting comment about Kuhn re "Later, I read Kuhn's explanation in a 1977 article that, without becoming an Aristotelian physicist, he had for a moment...
hi all I just read the weinberg article. he quotes kuhn in "structure of scientific revolutions", probably the most ... to me, the critics of kuhn do not seem...
hi all, some thoughts on c++ vs java from someone who has been coding since about age 9 or so. (writing 6502 assembly at age 11 or so). and Ive been writing a...
Thanks for this useful posting. The point about it taking a "longer time to get exactly the right lines of code for the c++ compiler" is interesting. C++ is...
Hi, ... Maybe it's a too narrow look at the matter, but topcoder does exactly that (starting a stopwatch and scoring by time needed to code). A short look...
re topcoder.com, this is a very interesting site which deserves further investigation, I think Ive heard about this but havent seen this site before. I think...
The quote you give, about Kuhn and Aristotle is something Weinberb mentioned in order to debunk Kuhn's assertion that paradigms are mutually incomprehensible....
hi all, the blogosophere vs MSM fight is really heating up these days. many interesting developments that deserve further comment/scrutiny. here are two links...
Dear All It was nice talking to you. Please find the details of the Student Lecture Series program. BioSpectrum, India's no 1 and leading biotechnology...
Hi All. Please confirm me by return mail , about your participation in the BioSpectrum Student Lecture Series. Rajeeb Banerjee ... Enjoy this Diwali with Y!...
The 44th ACM Southeast Conference to be held in Melbourne, Florida, USA next year will be awarding 3 Xboxes to Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Poster....
Wired News: Firm Allegedly Hiding Cisco Bugs http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69762,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Wired News: Let Your PC Do the Investing...
hi all the topcoder site defn bears further scrutiny. looks like they are awarding large prizes eg up to $100k for this one coder "tomek" (I mean, he has won...
hi all, topcoder has been sponsored in the past by yahoo, google, verisign, nvidia, and sun/java. I looked thru the archives & noticed I posted about it a few...
here's tomek's home page. doesnt seem to be doing much research yet. too bad! http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/czajkat/ take a look at that resume!! summer...
* I have lately been quite interested in becoming part of an open source effort. If anyone knows of, or is part of a project that could use some help with...
??? whats up/wrong with sourceforge? its absolutely massive, has zillions of projects, has zillions of Mbytes of project data, & last I heard had massive...
Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese - New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/technology/09gaming.html Wired News: Intel: Poor Want 'Real' Computers...
someone-or-other asks, contrary to supposed kuhnian assertions, isnt science approaching/converging toward the truth? can anyone find the quote in "structure...
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