Monday, May 18, 2009


among many other interesting things:

"Bayesianism, seen as an extension of logic, naturally interpolates from the statistical setting all the way through to pure software engineering/computer programming. "

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

“I was unable to find flaws in my ‘proof’ for quite a while, even though the error is very obvious. It was a psychological problem, a blindness, an excitement, an inhibition of reasoning by an underlying fear of being wrong. Techniques leading to the abandonment of such inhibitions should be cultivated by every honest mathematician.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/us/19stallings.html?_r=1&emc=eta1