Friday, June 24, 2005
Today's yummy word
satisfice.
posted by Sean 12:27 PM
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Python spotting
http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6563. I just cannot help noticing these things :-)
posted by Sean 7:53 AM
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Computers and mathematics
"The highly abstract quality of computers makes it easy to introduce mathematics into the study of their theory-and has led some to the erroneous conclusion that, as a computer science emerges, it will necessarily be a mathematical rather than an empirical science."
-- Herbert Simon, The Natural and Artifical Worlds
Amen.
posted by Sean 8:45 AM
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Monday, June 20, 2005
File Save As ... XML
"XML is not - repeat NOT - a 'file format' in the sense that most people use the phrase 'file format'." -- File Save As ...XML
posted by Sean 9:45 AM
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