Unix is build from the bottom up. Small instructions, and names, ls, ps,... Many of them can be concatenated in bigger and bigger scripts, which can do complex tasks. Dennis Ritchie was a physicist, who with Ken Thompson, a computer scientist, invented Unix.
Three hundred years ago, Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz, following in the work of John Wilkins , as expressed in "An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language", started to think methodically on a Philosophical Language, i.e. a tool allowing right thinking to clear out Philosophy. He was ahead of his time.
If one could do associate prime numbers as atoms, and composite numbers as molecules, to fundamental and composite concepts, then we have a mathematics for thinking, given the TB/s processors, this is Leibniz time!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Epistemological Obstacles
Gaston Bachelard introduced this concept. If I have a problem understanding limit and continuity, I should look around. Maybe my brain is defective, maybe my teacher made a mistake, and so on; but if almost everybody, everywhere is having a problem, maybe the limit and continuity concepts are special.
Given that the concepts were invented until the late eighteenth century, it is likely that humanity as a whole has problems understanding them.
I believe that Natural numbers, i.e. counting, is indeed natural, even crows can count. Some kids though can calculate square and cubic roots from a young age, Grisha Perelman, Ettore Majorana, Paul Erdos, Kenneth Wilson, and other great mathematicians; in some cases, this ability tends to interfere with others. Perelman rejected a million dollars, Majorana disappeared, Erdos abused amphetamines, Wilson has not lobbied the Nobel Committee to give a Nobel Prize in Physics to Donald H. Weingarten, for the numerical calculation of the nucleon mass.
Therefore I propose to take ALL children from the concrete stage of numbers, to the formal one of algebra, to end in the programming computational stage.
Let's all program modern computers.
Given that the concepts were invented until the late eighteenth century, it is likely that humanity as a whole has problems understanding them.
I believe that Natural numbers, i.e. counting, is indeed natural, even crows can count. Some kids though can calculate square and cubic roots from a young age, Grisha Perelman, Ettore Majorana, Paul Erdos, Kenneth Wilson, and other great mathematicians; in some cases, this ability tends to interfere with others. Perelman rejected a million dollars, Majorana disappeared, Erdos abused amphetamines, Wilson has not lobbied the Nobel Committee to give a Nobel Prize in Physics to Donald H. Weingarten, for the numerical calculation of the nucleon mass.
Therefore I propose to take ALL children from the concrete stage of numbers, to the formal one of algebra, to end in the programming computational stage.
Let's all program modern computers.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
When Are the Chinese Buying Greece?
The fallen Greek Empire is for Sale!
The Chinese have more cash than anybody right now.
Mmh.
The Chinese have more cash than anybody right now.
Mmh.
Zaachila and 1421
In 1962 Mexicans "discovered" Zaachila. In 1421 Zheng He, "discovered", America.
I believe professional historians are paid by the rulers, and they discover what the rulers want. Only yesterday Elliot Abrams, "remembered" the systematic kidnapping of babies in 1982 in Argentina.
How convenient!
Yesterday another man took his secrets with him. Miguel Nazar Haro died.
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