trying to answer that with a glass of wine in each hand .. wait
Mostly because in the 70's (an before) everybody thought that AI was a "natural evolution" of algorithmic computing. Once PROLOG and LISP were established they saw it around the corner. Fail.
People want stuff, need stuff. We trade because we suck as individuals, by nature, and because we just have no more space left for each to roam freely and crop and hunt
Someone finds a way to produce more stuff with less work
In the course of this procedure there came to pass the complete obliteration of a most important distinction--the distinction between training and education. As we have observed, very few people are educable; the vast majority of mankind cannot possibly be educated. They can, however, be trained; anybody can be trained. Practically any kind of mentality is capable of making some kind of response to some kind of training; and here was the salvation of our system's theory.
If all hands would simply agree to call training education, to regard a trained person as an educated person and a training-school as an educational institution, we need not trouble ourselves about our theory; it was safe.
Recently, I was got in trouble in solving a fourth order differential equation with Mathematica. And it is written like:
$$
-a^2\zeta+\frac{1}{b^2}(\zeta''''+4ia\zeta'''-6a^2\zeta''-4ia^3\zeta'+a^4\zeta)-\frac{c}{d}[-\zeta'-ia\zeta+(1-x)(\zeta''+2ia\zeta'-a^2\zeta)]-\frac{1}{d}(-2f(a)\sqrt{\frac{...
I am amazed about how beautiful and complex a well mastered language can be. Take for example Shakespeare. I (mostly) can understand any English native speaker, perhaps with some problems with some accents, but anyway. But for WS, I've to read each sentence 20 times before giving up :)
Well, most native speakers would say the same for WS :) It's just a different era, and besides English was highly non-standard back then...
Compared to other romance/germanic/indic/slavic languages which have very well defined rules of grammar, spelling and pronunciation with very few exceptions, English seems to have arbitrary rules and way more exceptions than you'd expect
@R.M No no, I've read (for example) Chaucer without trouble. It's WS mastery of language what is really foreign for me. Not the language variations or lack of standards
@R.M I've read for example his sonnets. There are quite a few of them that seemed just words piled one over the other until I went to read "interpretations" on the web
then all those beautiful metaphors ... awesome wriiter indeed
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
Many scientists speculate that people with anorexia, autism, and schizophrenia are "wired differently," but nobody knows for sure If nobody knows ... Why should I read it?
@J.M. The problem with self-esteem is the "self" part. That makes it difficult to achieve. I think one should be able to opt out and get a good life esteeming something else
@GustavoBandeira Interesting "the modern "intelligent design" movement is almost a carbon copy of the 19th century flat-Earth movement in its argumentative techniques"
@belisarius I guess we're used to hear that science solves this and that, that it's healing our cancers and STD's - the number of repeated expositions to it may generate some belief on it.
A geometrical view of the solutions:
s = Solve[(x - 1)^2 + (y - 1)^2 + (z - 1)^2 == 49, {x, y, z}, Integers];
pts = {x, y, z} /. s;
subs = Subsets[pts, {2}];
minds = Union[dists = N[EuclideanDistance @@@ subs]][[1 ;; 3]];
Show[Graphics3D[Sphere[{1, 1, 1}, 13/2]],
Graphics3D[Line /@ Extrac...
