Readit Newscountrymile commented on England rolls back 2014 computer science curriculum reform theguardian.com/education... · Posted by u/countrymile
Oh FFS this was an actual good thing, so are we now going back to teaching kids Microsoft office ?
I think that could be part of the plan
countrymile commented on Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf] home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/3... · Posted by u/measurablefunc
I knew this title looked familiar! It was required reading when I took Searle's course. I always thought it funny that CogSci majors (basically the AI major at Berkeley in the 90s) were required to take a course from a guy who strongly believed that computers can't think.
It would be like making every STEM major take a religion course.
Not sure that equivalence works, cognitive science doesn't require that people believe that computers can think; and STEM doesn't require that people think of the world in a purely mechanistic way - e.g. historically, many scientists were looking for the rules of a lawgiver.
Apologies if I'm misreading you here.
R is also an array language, but a non-iversonian one.
Another good ressource for array languages is https://aplwiki.com/.
r/apljk on reddit is also active.
That's my understanding too. R never seems to make these lists.
countrymile commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed
The IBM school's computer. Developed by IBM Hursley in 1967, it was years ahead in its design, display out to a television and storage on normal audio tape. Would have kick started an educational revolution if it had been launched beyond the 10 prototype machines.
Died due to legal wranglings about patents, iirc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622543