This last week, I showed what I’ve been working on for the last 7 months to my superior, only to be shot down. I’m responsible for ‘porting’ (really, it’s a complete rewrite) a Geospatial Information program from M$ windows to…
I’m going to found the field of Linguistic Engineering. I wish to study the relationship between what people think (algorithms) and what they say (programs), with the end goal being a set of design principles for the creation of programming…
Taken from Scott Aaronson’s PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus Propositional Tautologies: A or not A, not(A and not A), etc. are valid. Modus Ponens: If A is valid and A implies B is valid then B is valid. Equality Rules:…
buzzword: Achieving higher levels of inefficiency through the inappropriate application of technology. I was sitting in a meeting yesterday, and realized that the conventional approach to software design (more generally, any big project) is for upper management think that they…
I was reading The Quantum Times, and it occurred to me that much of the stuff about Alice and Bob sharing a Quantum State, and then Alice changing Bobs particle by measuring hers, strikes me as counter-intuitive. It seems to…
In most of the Sci-Fi that I’ve read humans are depicted primarily as a wild unknown of unequalled potential. When Jane and the Bugger Queen discuss humanity, it is pointed out that humans have a crude system by which many…
I recently watched Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution hasn’t happened yet. Keynote 00PSLA 1997 and Alan Kay: Graphical User Interfaces. (Both available through Google Video) What a cool guy. The videos of computer interfaces from the 70’s and 60’s make…
I was reading Why Geography Matters by de Blij, and in the first chapter (page 15) he says But, as so often happens when social engineers get hold of a system that’s working well, the wheels came off. Professional educators…
Abstract: This paper presents an isomorphism between the set of problems in P and the Natural Numbers, and an isomorphism between the set of problem in NP and the powerset of the Naturals. Using these isomorphisms the properties of the…
Last week I couldn’t get to sleep because I was thinking about economics. I stumbled upon an interesting theory. If you believe in the Efficient Market Hypothesis, and you believe Mandelbrot when he says that a stock price moves up…