Mea Culpa. Gödel's work should find its way into Christian Apologetics one of these decades. He has helped greatly in enabling a more rigorous framing of "faith" as something non-ridiculous.
I believe, though I can't prove, that other entities that resemble me in appearance and behavior (people) have the same kind of agency and observer status as myself and therefore have value similar in kind to myself.
But they still are clearly not you, so why should you care?
No, he proved that they can't be both consistent and complete. If you do prove them to be consistent, you have effectively proven them to be incomplete. Add another axiom to approach completeness, and then try again.
If you could prove the set of axioms to be complete, then you would have effectively proven them to be inconsistent, which would not be a happy situation for mathematicians.
I was thrown for a loop when I saw the code snippets in this book all done in Times Italic, but I quickly got used to it, and I find it very natural now. Obviously I don't use proportional width and/or italic fonts in my editor, but in a book it works well.
Also, as a general comment about the closing sentence of your post, have you considered that some pieces of software might be better than others? Or one piece of software might adhere more closely to a standard than another? These are all topics worth discussion.
How true. For instance, emacs is a much better piece of software than vi.
Yours is the standard objection, and it is worth addressing. I have also seen a few examples of the results you describe. Exposure to people is the remedy, not necessarily exposure to peers. I do not remember my experiences with "peers" as a child being overwhelmingly positive, in retrospect. If their "peers" (I'm assuming you mean the same age/marketing demographic) are all obnoxious and ADD-addled from TV or Nintendo, my kids' exposure to them should be primarily as a cautionary exercise. When 90+% of a child's relationships are to children of the same age, each of which has children for 90+% of their relationships, no one ever really matures. We make sure our kids interact with people of all ages.
I am not hiding my children from people, or hiding people from my children, but I want to make sure that I am the person with the biggest influence in their lives. One of the reasons we are homeschooling is because we want children who can engage society, not be normalized to society. And by the way, we get compliments almost daily from people outside our home about how charming our kids are. </FathersPride>
Why are external viewpoints somehow "quality assurance?" If I have any views at all, I should have my reasons to believe they are worth having. I should be satisfied with the soundness of the reasoning that led to those views. My wife and I will pass our introspection and reasoning on to our kids, along with descriptions of our experience, etc., rather than allow someone else about whom we have very little knowledge. I believe that I am engaging in more "quality assurance" than 99.9% of PTA presidents in the U.S.A.
You can also homeschool, like I am doing with my (elementary aged) kids. I plan on doing it at least until they are of the traditional high school/college age. No one needs to validate the curriculum, so it could potentially be tantamount to dropping out, but you can also give them the education you wished you had, with no bureaucratic, intellectual, or philosophical interference.
After reading your post, I immediately began to envision what a 12-sided die would look like.... Being a physicist, I concluded that a spin-1/2 cube would do the trick.
A plane that comes as close as the cars do in the other lane of a highway is called a near miss for a reason.
And that reason is: to give George Carlin something to carp about. Why isn't it called a near hit? If you had nearly hit something, you'd have missed it. On the other hand, if you nearly missed something, doesn't that mean you hit it?
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Mea Culpa. Gödel's work should find its way into Christian Apologetics one of these decades. He has helped greatly in enabling a more rigorous framing of "faith" as something non-ridiculous.
But they still are clearly not you, so why should you care?
Beware the slippery slope.
If you could prove the set of axioms to be complete, then you would have effectively proven them to be inconsistent, which would not be a happy situation for mathematicians.
I was thrown for a loop when I saw the code snippets in this book all done in Times Italic, but I quickly got used to it, and I find it very natural now. Obviously I don't use proportional width and/or italic fonts in my editor, but in a book it works well.
But seriously, if you know of a way to do this, I would be interested.
No, find them a club instead.
Nothing beats a trained instructor
...except a club.
Poland once again shows its resolve to stand against totalitarianism.
(Score:5, Centrally Planned)
Get thee to a pedanty!
mvdw: Have you considered a Toyota Camry?
Anonymous Coward: Oh, geez, does anyone know the difference between an off road vehicle and a sedan?
cameldrv: High-end off road vehicles have become more sedan-like lately.
Rui Carmo: WTF?
In other countries, this book is titled, How to Avoid a Forensic Data Trail on Computers You Compromise.
How true. For instance, emacs is a much better piece of software than vi.
I am not hiding my children from people, or hiding people from my children, but I want to make sure that I am the person with the biggest influence in their lives. One of the reasons we are homeschooling is because we want children who can engage society, not be normalized to society. And by the way, we get compliments almost daily from people outside our home about how charming our kids are. </FathersPride>
The word was "interference." Would you care to explain how you expect me to interfere with myself?
Why are external viewpoints somehow "quality assurance?" If I have any views at all, I should have my reasons to believe they are worth having. I should be satisfied with the soundness of the reasoning that led to those views. My wife and I will pass our introspection and reasoning on to our kids, along with descriptions of our experience, etc., rather than allow someone else about whom we have very little knowledge. I believe that I am engaging in more "quality assurance" than 99.9% of PTA presidents in the U.S.A.
You can also homeschool, like I am doing with my (elementary aged) kids. I plan on doing it at least until they are of the traditional high school/college age. No one needs to validate the curriculum, so it could potentially be tantamount to dropping out, but you can also give them the education you wished you had, with no bureaucratic, intellectual, or philosophical interference.
Kind of makes you wish we were back in the Reagan era, when abolishing the Department of Education was in the Republican platform.
After reading your post, I immediately began to envision what a 12-sided die would look like.... Being a physicist, I concluded that a spin-1/2 cube would do the trick.
I had the same problem once; it vexed me for two days until I just pressed the return key at the password prompt.
Oh, I get it. It's like rain on your wedding day, or a free ride when you're already there.
Don't you think?
The GPL is not an EULA.
And that reason is: to give George Carlin something to carp about. Why isn't it called a near hit? If you had nearly hit something, you'd have missed it. On the other hand, if you nearly missed something, doesn't that mean you hit it?
Exactly. The performance penalty is built in whether you plan on coding with exceptions or not.
Think "cure cancer."
I didn't say that iPods cure cancer, I said THINK cure cancer.
Wow, this Brin guy sounds almost as smart as the authors of the Second Amendment!