urbanology.com

downtowneugene.blogspot.com

Downtown Eugene: User-generated downtown

http://downtowneugene.blogspot.com/2008/04/user-generated-downtown.html

Thursday, April 17, 2008. When we launched our non-profit public dance-hall, The Tango Center. One of our main incentives, was to provide places downtown where people could actually do. There's nothing wrong with going downtown to shop or drink, or take in a show or a movie - but we wanted to see if we could successfully create a self-sustaining activity, by providing people an opportunity to learn. From each other, and be creative. Maybe user-generated activity is the. Formula for a successful downtown&...

community-projects.org

community projects

http://www.community-projects.org/index.php??project_id=24730

Bring your neighborhood to life. If a government genuinely wants to serve its people, it must begin by directly helping them. If it wants to fix a place. It must help the people. In that place. As indigenous people. The residents know the place best, and their perspective should be given the most weight. When everyone works together to improve a place, it provides the best chance to do no harm. And to make a place healthy. City planning and human rights. A webtool for democratic, community self-management.

chomskyalexander.blogspot.com

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...

chomskyalexander.blogspot.com

Chomsky & Alexander: March 2010

http://chomskyalexander.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

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 ...

chomskyalexander.blogspot.com

Chomsky & Alexander: The Approach

http://chomskyalexander.blogspot.com/2004/12/approach.html

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.

rainmagazine.com

Gatemaker: Christopher Alexander's dialogue with the computer industry - RAIN

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Alexander visits The Oregon Experiment. The Oregon Experiment after Twenty Years. Medieval Movements and the Origins of Switzerland. Gatemaker: Christopher Alexander's dialogue with the computer industry. This paper is a pre-print from the forthcoming proceedings of the 2013 PUARL conference at the University of Oregon, where this talk was first given. Christopher Alexander, April 1997. In 1958 Christopher Alexander [CA] entered Boston’s academic arena, then a pre-eminent global center for computing rese...

learningrussian.blogspot.com

Learning Russian: Propaganda still works

http://learningrussian.blogspot.com/2005/11/propaganda-still-works.html

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...

computingphilosophy.blogspot.com

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...

computingphilosophy.blogspot.com

Computing Philosophy: The Problems with Recursion

http://computingphilosophy.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-problems-with-recursion.html

Tuesday, August 26, 2014. The Problems with Recursion. Is recursion only something we see. In the world, or is it something in. This is a question we should be pouring. Over, and puzzling about. But instead I see people either in full thrall of some kind of pan-recursionism, or else denying that it could exist anywhere. If the language faculty, at its core, is a kind of cyclic composition engine, it's no wonder that we find recursion so seductive. When something could be perceived 'recursively'. All of t...