Processing power is often said to be a poor substitute for understanding; in fact it is understanding that turns out to be the poor substitute for processing power.
Aug 112023
Computing
I did not write a program to generate this book; I am that program.
Jan 072022
Few can choose a number between 0 and 100.
Dec 012021
God is to theology what infinity is to mathematics.
Nov 052021
We are apt to imagine software as scaling indefinitely, which it does not, because we think of it as a form of writing, which does.
Nov 052020
Correlation does not imply causation, and the reverse is also true.
Oct 132020
You can p-hack your way to high confidence, but not to large effect size.
Aug 262020
It is a world of men who look like Unix system administrators, without the Unix system administration skills.
Jul 232020
Dr. Seuss names his creatures Thing 1 and Thing 2 to signify that they are not distinct in any important way; statistics names its errors Type 1 and Type 2 to signify that they are.
Jun 082020
As computers become more skilled at imitating human beings, so must we.
May 252020
My father’s two fundamental rules for computer programming were Optimize Later and Optimize Never; and this, like so much advice about programming, also goes for life.