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Cogitatio: July 2009
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Friday, July 31, 2009. Mapping game play into work. About 15-16 years ago I had a conversation with a colleague where I thought it would be possible to create a video game where the game play mapped into useful work. So, in other words, players would think they are just being entertained but in reality they were solving some difficult problem that someone could profit from. Well, this has come to pass:.
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Cogitatio: October 2008
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Thursday, October 30, 2008. Geeks just wanna have fun. A computer is truly the greatest geek toy ever invented. It is like an erector set to the googleplex power. Being "forced" to earn a living making virtual toys for others to use rather than spending ones days exploring this toy's possibilities. I guess I just feel like being a whiner. Of a useful blog post. Go ahead and slam me in the comments. Rich companies lik...
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Cogitatio: August 2008
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Friday, August 29, 2008. Tan of the Kitchen Sink. In a post on MathForum. I made the mistake of doubting Mathematica could compute the Tan of the Kitchen Sink. It is always a mistake to doubt Mathematica's prowess as Daniel Lichtblau. Of Wolfram pointed out to me:. In[1]:= Tan[Khinchin/ Sinc] / N. It sort of spoils the joke/pun to explain but to non-Mathematca users. Is aprox. 2.68545. N means "give numeric value".
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Cogitatio: MathematicaCookbook.com
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Monday, January 9, 2012. My new blog related to work on Mathematica is finally up at mathematicacookbook.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter. Victor J. Stenger. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. In Search of a Fundamental Theory. By David J. Chalmers. The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans.
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Cogitatio: August 2009
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Saturday, August 1, 2009. No Sleep `Till Book Done. A rap about my experience writing Mathematica Cookbook. Sing to the tune of "No Sleep `Till Brooklyn by The Beastie Boys). Chorus) No sleep 'til - Book Done. Editing unsettled - but I got mettle. Laptop running hotter than a boiling kettle. My job's ain't a job - it's a damn hard time. Ideas to code - runnin' overtime. Some frustration - but it’s my vocation. School...
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Cogitatio: The Creators
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Consider the following syllogism:. Everything that exists has a creator. Therefore God has a creator. Now, this is clearly valid from a purely deductive point of view. But deduction is nothing more than the mechanical rearrangement of symbols, hence it prove nothing about the true state of affairs in our universe until one considers the premises. By Victor J. Stenger. Victor J. Stenger.
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Cogitatio: Red-Black Tree in 2 hours
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Monday, May 5, 2008. Red-Black Tree in 2 hours. Many computer science students have heard of red-black trees. If you use any container class library that has a map (ordered associative container) like STL. While working on an implementation for a recipe in my forth coming "Mathematica Cookbook" I found a functional implementation in Haskell (postscript). Now, there are caveats. There always are. Any C impleme...Lucki...
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Cogitatio: On the Goodness of Programming Languages
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Sunday, June 5, 2011. On the Goodness of Programming Languages. Since my last post on C I have been thinking a lot about what makes a programming language good. This is also motivated by my recent emersion into JavaScript. That has me wondering how good of a language is JavaScript. I've had similar thoughts about C , Java, Lisp and others in the past. It be functional (first class functions, closures, etc.). Humans s...
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Cogitatio: May 2011
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Saturday, May 21, 2011. The Joy of C. My latest assignment at work is to write a very fast message journal. Basically this is a way for writers to stream FIX. Messages (but could be anything) into a file while at the same time having one or more readers receive the messages. There are numerous little details I am leaving out but they are not important to the point I wish to make. So if you ever find yourself forced b...
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Cogitatio: August 2011
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Unpolished musings about consciousness, thought, information processing and computation. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Consider the following syllogism:. Everything that exists has a creator. Therefore God has a creator. Now, this is clearly valid from a purely deductive point of view. But deduction is nothing more than the mechanical rearrangement of symbols, hence it prove nothing about the true state of affairs in our universe until one considers the premises. By Victor J. Stenger. Victor J. Stenger.