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Development and Philosophy
From WindyCityRails 2012
Presenter: Steve Klabnik
- "Logic'd!'
- "We aspire to be evil as well"
- "You will be a total newb again"
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. OOP is building an ontology.
- Lots of work in whether a particular ontology is a good ontology... why don't we look at those 100s of years of work (as software people)?
- Lots of philosophy, linguistics, thinking about thinking... better to watch a video if available :)
- "Protological control" (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc)
