“In the study, two groups of six subjects each, comprising a total sample of 12 experienced programers, debugged two types of programs under online and offline conditions in…

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him [functional programming].” -Abraham Lincoln [improved by Louie Helm] PS – This…

How should autonomous systems be analyzed? In particular, we describe how the confluence of developments in two areas—autonomous systems architectures and formal verification for rational agents—can provide the basis for the formal verification of…

At first sight, stupidity is a characteristic that is expected in natural selection processes to suffer and to become extinct. After all, stupid persons by definition act in…

I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to…

Many scientists believe that a large asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Could humans face the same fate? It’s a possibility. NASA has tracked most of…

Who are you to deny greatness? If you would deny it to yourself, you would deny it to the entire world. And we will not be denied. Does…

All teachers of programming find that their results display a ‘double hump’. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot…

In the group that performed poorly on the cognitive reflection test, only 40% of men and 25% of women said they would take a 15% chance of $1,000,000…

I read quite a few non-fiction books and read some reviews as well. Most of them are describing what the book is about. However, sometimes I wonder what…

I recently ran across a reference to the internet site DeathClock.com. I clicked over to it, and entered a few simple facts about myself—birthday, gender, temperament, BMI, smoker/non-smoker—and…