Very interesting article in Ekinoderm : Doctors Robert Dewar and Edmond Schonberg (Professors Emeritus at NYU in Computer Science) recently penned a rather scathing paper about the sorry state of Computer Science education in the United States today. In it, we see the usual laments that Java is dumbing down Computer Science curricula and that [...]
Recently I’ve come to a realization: A web site doesn’t have to have to have a slick Web 2.0ish look to be popular. Just look at some of the most popular web sites: Craigslist Wikipedia Google PlentyOfFish MySpace Orkut All of those websites have a very down-to-earth or in some cases downright clumsy design. But [...]
The Delphi effect is described by Eric S Raymond in his book, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" as follows: "Sociologists discovered that the averaged opinion of a mass of equally expert or equally ignorant observers is quite a bit more reliable a predictor than the opinion of a single randomly-chosen one of the observers." Between [...]
A new theory in cosmology which has been widely reported recently (Nature , Guardian) sounds much like the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist concepts of cyclical creation and mind-boggling timescales. This is what I’ve always thought, science and many Eastern religious/philosophical ideas will meet at one point. We are getting closer each scientific breakthrough at a time.
The universe is at least 986 billion years older than physicists thought and is probably much older still, according to a radical new theory. The revolutionary study suggests that time did not begin with the big bang 14 billion years ago…
