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Chomsky & Alexander: November 2009
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An attempt to integrate the current ideas and results of Noam Chomsky with those of Christopher Alexander. Earlier work by these two, a linguist and an architect, unintentionally had a huge positive effect upon computing, making integration a sensible approach towards resolving the countless difficult problems in our field. Wednesday, November 04, 2009. Sequences: linear and differentiaing. 4 choose between this and that. Let's call this a "linear sequence". Let's contrast this with the sequence. Is smal...
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Chomsky & Alexander: March 2010
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An attempt to integrate the current ideas and results of Noam Chomsky with those of Christopher Alexander. Earlier work by these two, a linguist and an architect, unintentionally had a huge positive effect upon computing, making integration a sensible approach towards resolving the countless difficult problems in our field. Sunday, March 21, 2010. Posted by Greg Bryant. Monday, March 15, 2010. Depth and Innate Judgements. I moved this essay here from the Grogix. Clearly, much of the mental functionality ...
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Chomsky & Alexander: The Approach
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An attempt to integrate the current ideas and results of Noam Chomsky with those of Christopher Alexander. Earlier work by these two, a linguist and an architect, unintentionally had a huge positive effect upon computing, making integration a sensible approach towards resolving the countless difficult problems in our field. Monday, December 20, 2004. Exhaustive listing of the influences of two influential people would be incredibly boring, for you and. Posted by Greg Bryant. Eugene, Oregon, United States.
learningrussian.blogspot.com
Learning Russian: Propaganda still works
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The language and the associated reality. Monday, November 14, 2005. Talking with a Russian from St. Petersberg, the subject of the pension privileges protests comes up. Civil servants and retired people are being asked to exchange some minimum privileges, like bus transportation, for the equivalent cash, in their salary and pension. "What's the problem with that? I was asked. "Is something wrong with these people's arithmetic? No Civil servants and pensioners in Russia sometimes don't receive. Interestin...
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Computing Philosophy: The primary practical barometer of programming progress
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Friday, May 29, 2015. The primary practical barometer of programming progress. There's really just one. Criteria to apply, when judging whether or not an engineering environment has improved the life of engineers. Does the environment do a better. Job of helping programmers create what they want. But the criteria of success. Should be the same. Does the environment move programmers towards a situation, even a very domain-specific situation, where the manner. In which they think. So, say one makes a preci...
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News Gloss: Obscuring power: or why Jared Diamond, Thomas Friedman and Jeffrey Sachs make me see red
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Obscuring power: or why Jared Diamond, Thomas Friedman and Jeffrey Sachs make me see red. In the final episode of "Guns, Germs and Steel". I had some hope. Diamond. Pointed out that Africa, difficult for the west to settle, became a colonial source of slaves, mineral and agricultural wealth. "And I realized" Diamond said on the train "that the very train I was on, today still served the same purpose." My hopes rose: would he say it? Fellow professors, writers etc. Take the othe...
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News Gloss: South America & Web 2.0
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006. South America and Web 2.0. Morales, the first indigenous president in modern South America, is taking Bolivia back from the foreign interests that have stolen it. In Venezuela, nearly 100,000 new, small, local co-operative busisnesses have been created since Chavez took office, in a people-and-nature oriented policy known as endogenous development. Argentina has just become the first country to free itself from the destructive pro-US policies of the hideous IMF. The Nature of Order.
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News Gloss: Citizen rule #1: never trust your government
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Sunday, June 10, 2007. Citizen rule #1: never trust your government. I remember when Guantanamo prison was first in the news after 9/11, and I told some friends that secret prisons make no sense, under any circumstances. They said something like "but what if they are really bad people? My response: "do you trust your government to determine that? Posted by Greg Bryant @ 11:05 AM. Eugene, Oregon, United States. View my complete profile. Matching data to slogans. The lost art of evidence fabrication.
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News Gloss: The Supposed Popularity of Fast Food
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Monday, August 14, 2006. The Supposed Popularity of Fast Food. Back-of-the-envelope calculations can illuminate conventional wisdom. For example, people get the impression that the majority of the population eats fast food. They eat less branding than one would think. Posted by Greg Bryant @ 12:27 AM. Eugene, Oregon, United States. View my complete profile. Oh its a major operation, I agree. Automatic recognition and generation. The Colbert Id really like to see. South America and Web 2.0.
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Little Fixes: May 2009
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Saturday, May 02, 2009. My MacBook, like many people's, is an insomniac. If you put it to sleep, from the menu or by closing the shell, it wakes up again, in a few seconds. This default behavior will empty your batteries and overheat your machine in its case. Now, many things can. Cause this: mostly hardware interrupt handlers containing instructions to wake up. I first Googled this problem with the phrase: macbook does not stay asleep. I found it eventually, but I thought it would be helpful just to say:.
