Pages tagged logic:

GROW TOWER(GAME) (EYEZMAZE --FLASH GAME--)
http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2009/01/grow_tower.html

The latest Grow game that I forgot to post earlier.
Yaaaaaay new Grow game! These things are just about my favorite flash games ever.
Welcome to KENKEN™!
http://www.kenken.com/
fun
Math objectives
Edge: GÖDEL AND THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL TRUTH
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/goldstein05/goldstein05_index.html
Gödel mistrusted our ability to communicate. Natural language, he thought, was imprecise, and we usually don't understand each other. Gödel wanted to prove a mathematical theorem that would have all the precision of mathematics—the only language with any claims to precision—but with the sweep of philosophy. He wanted a mathematical theorem that would speak to the issues of meta-mathematics. And two extraordinary things happened. One is that he actually did produce such a theorem. The other is that it was interpreted by the jazzier parts of the intellectual culture as saying, philosophically exactly the opposite of what he had been intending to say with it.
goel and the nature of mathematical truth
Learn prolog now
http://www.learnprolognow.org/
5 Ways 'Common Sense' Lies To You Everyday | Cracked.com
http://www.cracked.com/article_17142_5-ways-common-sense-lies-you-everyday.html
Check this out
market for news that circumvents government control but, as we have found out, rumor mills like to fill inf
http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/Logicly.html
http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/Logicly.html
YouTube - Open-mindedness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded. music © QualiaSoup Category: Education Tags: open-mindedness pseudoscience paranormal supernatural contradiction anecdotal evidence prejudice close-mindedness fallacious thinking
A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded.
http://www.amzi.com/ExpertSystemsInProlog/index.htm
http://www.amzi.com/ExpertSystemsInProlog/index.htm
Heavy Boots
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~det/phy2060/heavyboots.html
comment on the issue of fairness in teaching elementary physics
‘About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that, while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon. My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?!" ’
Dailymotion - Open-mindedness - a Hi-Tech et Science video
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/totocacapouet/video/x8uei4_openmindedness_tech
openmindedness
Bill the Lizard: Programming and Logic Puzzles
http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/06/programming-and-logic-puzzles.html
Peter: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch. Joanna: What's that? Peter: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.*
das puzzles to enlimber the programming mind
Red Remover :: Silvergames.com
http://www.silvergames.com/game/red-remover/
Flash physics game. Remove the red blocks without letting the green ones fall off screen.
Kids might enjoy this physics based puzzle game.
Mindcipher: Challenge Yourself...
http://www.mindcipher.net/
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks?taxonomyName=Management&taxonomyId=14
so much better than any of the other articles on this, especially "10 traits to look for when hiring a programmer"
The stereotypes that lump IT professionals together are misguided. It's actually the conditions that surround the IT pros that are stereotypical, and the geeks are just reacting to those conditions the way they always react -- logically.
Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart - life - 02 November 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.000-clever-fools-why-a-high-iq-doesnt-mean-youre-smart.html?full=true
The differences between rational thinking and intelligence.
Is George W. Bush stupid? It's a question that occupied a good many minds of all political persuasions during his turbulent eight-year presidency. The strict answer is no. Bush's IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which suggests an intelligence in the top 10 per cent of the population. But this, surely, does not tell the whole story. Even those sympathetic to the former president have acknowledged that as a thinker and decision-maker he is not all there. Even his loyal speechwriter David Frum called him glib, incurious and "as a result ill-informed".
Computational Semantics with Functional Programming
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/cs/
Preziosissima risorsa.
This book is on applications of logic in the semantic analysis of language.
Puzzles - XKCD Wiki
http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Puzzles
100 people are being held prisoner in a jail. They are told that in one hour, they will all be taken to separate windowless, soundproof cells. One at a time, and in a random order, they will be taken from their cells, interrogated, and then sent back to their cells. All interrogations will take place in the same room, which contains one light bulb and the switch that operates it. The light is initially off, but the inmates are free to toggle the switch as often as they want, whenever they are in the interrogation room, and the prison guards will not toggle the switch at all. No prisoner can see the light from his cell. Only one prisoner is interrogated at a time, each prisoner can be interrogated multiple times, and they have no way of communicating besides the light switch. The length and amount of time between interrogations is random, so no help there.
Puzzles! Yummy.
Interesting maths puzzles to keep me occupied this summer.
The Universe of Discourse : World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem
http://blog.plover.com/math/Gdl-Smullyan.html
7/10
Johann Hari: How to spot a lame, lame argument - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-to-spot-a-lame-lame-argument-1667373.html
There can be more than one bad thing in the world
'what-aboutery'
Round Manhole Covers, or: If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft :: hebig.org/blog
http://hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000962.php
Richard Feynman
"Why are manhole covers round" is one of the eternal questions in job interviews, and so it seems to be at Microsoft. The desired and politically correct answer to the question is: "Manhole covers are round because round is the only shape that can never fall into the manhole and hurt someone (with the hole of the same shape, but slightly smaller size than the cover)". And the answer is wrong. Let's ask Mr Feynman:
Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/04/06/climate-change-and-argumentative-fallacies/
So the setup is “snappy, intuitively appealing argument without obvious problems” vs. “rebuttal I probably don’t have time to read, let alone analyze closely.” If we don’t sometimes defer to the expert consensus, we’ll systematically tend to go wrong in the face of one-way-hash arguments, at least outside our own necessarily limited domains of knowledge. Indeed, in such cases, trying to evaluate the arguments on their merits will tend to lead to an erroneous conclusion more often than simply trying to gauge the credibility of the various disputants. The problem, of course, is gauging your own competence level well enough to know when to assess arguments and when to assess arguers. Thanks to the perverse phenomenon psychologists have dubbed the Dunning-Kruger effect, those who are least competent tend to have the most wildly inflated estimates of their own knowledge and competence. They don’t know enough to know that they don’t know, as it were.
Via Brad Plumer, I see Cato’s Jerry Taylor is riled at responses to an open letter ad the Institute published in which a group of scientists signed off on a statement questioning the strength of the case for catastrophic climate change. I’m broadly sympathetic with his irritation at the proportion of ad hominem attacks in debates like these, but I’m not sure I agree with his bottom line in context: An argument’s merit has nothing to do with the motives of the arguer, the credentials of the arguer, or the popularity of the argument. Full stop. No exceptions.
The one-way hash argument is an excellent illustration of why argument from authority is not always wrong.
Cognitive Biases - A Visual Study Guide by the Royal Society of Account Planning | Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/documents/30548590/Cognitive-Biases-A-Visual-Study-Guide-by-the-Royal-Society-of-Account-Planning
Accessible Text CAPTCHAs: 157,500,799 logic questions
http://textcaptcha.com/
Weg met de captcha's met afbeeldingen http://textcaptcha.com/ #accessibility #textcaptcha
"This site provides a web service to generate text-based CAPTCHAs, based on simple logic questions."
Text Captcha is an accessible alternative to standard captcha methods and relies on logic.
Self-Referential Aptitude Test
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lorch/personal/self-ref.html
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases the knowledge that the solution is unique can actually give you a short-cut to finding the answer to a particular question, but it's possible to find the unique solution even without making use of the fact that the solution is unique. (Thanks to Andy Latto for bringing this subtlety to my attention.)
20. Standardized test : intelligence :: barometer :
The first question whose answer is B is question
Self-Referential Aptitude Test
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lorch/personal/self-ref.html
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases the knowledge that the solution is unique can actually give you a short-cut to finding the answer to a particular question, but it's possible to find the unique solution even without making use of the fact that the solution is unique. (Thanks to Andy Latto for bringing this subtlety to my attention.)
20. Standardized test : intelligence :: barometer :
The first question whose answer is B is question