Computation from first principles

Joined July 2010
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10 Sep 2023
In April, launched the "Worth Defending" discussion blog worthdefending.blogspot.com #Science #Psychohistory #GOFAI #Forth

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31 Oct 2022
#Twitter needs psychohistory.
29 May 2021
I enjoy the company of #computers because they're deaf to siren song. Despite their wondrous modernity, they mirror our primeval selves, and thus are of 'incalculable' value. As Asimov observed, they make us more human, not less.
23 Nov 2020
All the dogmatic torches and candles ever lit dim to near invisibility in the light of a classroom Bunsen burner. #Science
30 Oct 2020
Scientific literacy is the only brain-stuff that exists objectively, and is therefore impervious to panic and despair. We should care about science precisely because it doesn't care about us.
22 May 2020
"At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past ." - Isaac Asimov
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26 Mar 2020
You can have our precious tree sauce... When you pry it from our (always) cold, dead hands. #nocanadian
9 Mar 2020
We may even judge of the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation. - Adolphe Quételet #Computation #Psychohistory #Anthropology
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Mike Will retweeted
I am happy to deliver a Roadmap for Open Science to bolster the Government of Canada’s efforts in making federal science open and accessible to all! Read more about it: canada.ca/en/innovation-scie… #OpenScience #OpenGovCan
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7 Feb 2020
Distributed Compute Protocol on the #raspberrypi scidata.ca/?page_id=2025

5 Jan 2020
I miss FORTH. One of the early victims of the glitzkrieg that ruined personal #computing.
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