Development and Philosophy

From WindyCityRails 2012

Presenter: Steve Klabnik

Memorable Quotes

• "Logic'd!'

Notes

From @benjaminoakes:

• A lot of info can be found on Wikipedia (see there for more)
• Humanities are important
• Refinement -- you see more the second time you read something
• Rewarding to study this
• Monocultures = death
  • Get out of your filter bubble

Philosophy

• "love of wisdom"
• Get to the root causes of things -- general and fundamental problems
• Aestetics
  • We use Ruby 'cause it's beautiful
  • How can you be critical about this?
• Logic
  • You committed a fallacy... "Logic'd!'
  • Sometimes we care too much about this
• Epistomology (sp?)
  • What can we / can't we know?
  • Laplace's Demon: know all particles at state 0, all laws of physics, can you predict state N? (Is the world deterministic?)
• Metaphysics
  • physics of physics
  • What stuff is there?
  • Abstract
  • Ontology (used in NLP, etc): determine what types of things there are. OO is building an ontology.