The different attitudes of computer scientists and economists – A Computer Scientist in a Business School
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009interesting article (and comments, yes, read comments) about what data models actually mean
Archive for the 'science' Category
Appendix F – Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009famous and somewhat forgotten so called “minority report” by Richard Feynman on the aftermath of Challenger Shuttle disaster in 1986 that determent that management culture of NASA to responsible for the disaster, and not some particular technical fa…
ethics vs morals (from ./ "Ethical Killing Machines")
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008interesting post on slahsdot that explains the difference between ethics and morals. (the difference is not obvious )
STSC CrossTalk – Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? – Jan 2008
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008A talk or sort of open letter complaining about decline of quality of CS education in USA, and in particular “java school” approaches
An attempt at a summary — A Theoretically Simple Exception of Everything
Friday, November 16th, 2007interesting summary and discussion on a recent paper by Garret Lisi: an attempt to explain elementary practicle grouping by a complex geometrical model
Database management for "big science" applications – The Database Column
Thursday, November 15th, 2007nice article and comments
Don Knuth’s Home Page
Saturday, November 10th, 2007this shouldn’t need any notes
Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds
Friday, October 19th, 2007excellent essay! “algorithm of evolution” describes predictive-markets and statistical prediction
a trip to a closest star — Charlie’s Diary: The High Frontier, Redux
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007an explanation (with discussion) on what it would take to fly to a closest star