Or: I thought about calling this “Humerical Methods”, but there’s nothing funny here.
My girlfriend and I recently went on vacation to Germany. Distant relatives of mine (Wolfgang and Birgit), agreed to host us for a few days, which turned out to be a great break from cheap hostels.
One day, Wolfgang tells us that they are [...]
I’m working through ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham right now (book review on Monday), and I found this little chestnut:
Experienced Lisp programmers work bottom-up as well as top-down. While they’re writing their program down towards the language, they also build the language up toward their program.This way, language and program meet sooner, and more [...]
“If you’re doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them.”
~ Richard Feynman, “Cargo Cult Science”
A lesson that workers of all disciplines should heed.
