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I just found this week's blog posting by RJ Lipton: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/a-polemical-overre... The Mackenzie book chapter discusses both the Fetzer and DeMillo…

Actually, the SAT reading comprehension questions are not that simple and trip people up. Which is really my point of analogy. They're the kind of questions where you either got th…

There is none; the people who keep promulgating this falsehood about Stallman say that because of one paragraph that anyone who can pass the SAT reading comprehension tests, parse …

I find this approach strangely condescending. For example the author says: > Understanding the value attributed to X, Y, and Z in that particular text requires assessment of the rh…

> Too many of the people I meet are ground down, sliding by, holding on, grappling with their identity and place in the world, somewhere on the scale of mildly scarred to full blow…

I think it's clearer to understand the Church-Turing thesis as two theses, not one. Turing's thesis was that (intuitive) computability equals (formalizable) Turing computability. S…

OK but if by saving 1000 lives a year required as a side-effect that you personally be among the fatalities, would that be OK for you? I hope not. Think of this as a technical corn…

It's plausible and goes to show why the blog post choosing salary is itself a bad metric to begin with. It has skewed the entire discussion.

Well the real issue is defining what's better. And the worry some of us have is this new trend of grappling with increased complexity seems short-sighted; we don't like the directi…

SICP is programming for the theoretically inclined. It seems analogous to calculus in math versus calculus for physics: you can study it more formally with all the proper proofs an…