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Category Archives: Language
Ontologies
Is an artificial creature a form of life, or a compound of organs ? Should it also be subsumed under the notion of artificial intelligence ? When an “and” is placed between two terms (artificial/natural, natural/cultural, immanent/transcendent), where should the boundary of that conjunction (or disjunction) be located ? Separators, operators, conjunctions can in this [...]
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Communication without essences
Media are not fixed natural objects; they have no natural edges. They are constructed complexes of habits, beliefs, and procedures embedded in elaborate cultural codes of communication. The history of media is never more or less than the history of their uses, which always lead us away from them to the social practices and conflicts [...]
Code and Data
Among the pearls of wisdom and wackiness chronicled in Steven Levy’s classic history Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Doubleday), my favorite is this one by Bill Gosper, who once said, “Data is just a dumb kind of programming.” The corollary, of course, is that code is just a smart kind of data—data designed to [...]
Ubiquitious C
An Intac survey, while lacking precisions about methodology, declared C the most popular programming language in 2010. Aside from changing every year, the usual suspects find their place in the hit parade. C was developped mostly by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs, who derived it from BCPL. As the development of C was closely tied [...]
code design
The essence of pretty code is that one can infer much about the code’s structure from a glance, without completely reading it. I call this “visual parsing”: discerning the flow and relative importance of code from its shape. Engineering such code requires a certain amount of artifice to transform otherwise working code into working, readable [...]
robotics and space
Any fascinating facts about yourself that you would like to share with the DaniWeb community? – I can’t seem to think of any but I thought I would share that I see the real world as a math grid which when I start robotics should make it much easier. I was thinking of starting robotics [...]
Evolving programs
You may ask: “Are human beings actually supposed to be the ones reading computer programs?” The assumption is that people use programs to tell computers what to do, and computers then use compilers or interpreters to compile and understand the code. At the end of the process, the program is translated into machine language that [...]
