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Benjamin Oakes edited this page Sep 7, 2012 · 23 revisions

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?)

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