Chomsky & Alexander

An attempt to integrate the current ideas and results of Noam Chomsky with those of Christopher Alexander. Earlier work by these two, a linguist and an architect, unintentionally had a huge positive effect upon computing, making integration a sensible approach towards resolving the countless difficult problems in our field.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

The Science of Common Sense

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How do 'things' really work? When people begin to answer that question, on various topics, for themselves, it should be uncontrovers...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Mechanical Philosophy and The Nature of Order

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Noam Chomsky writes often that the mechanical philosophy of the 17th century, i.e. "the universe as clock", i.e. "contact mec...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Cross-reference

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After many less interesting attempts to make practical engineering use of Chomsky's rationality and Alexander's results, in late 200...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Depth and Innate Judgements

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I moved this essay here from the Grogix Blog. Which mental faculties are involved in programming? If we knew more about them, could we inve...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Sequences: linear and differentiaing

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A sequence of instructions typical in, say, a computer "howto", allows for a few values to be set, and choices to be made, but is...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

A Synthesis of Grammar and Life

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In 1996, Christopher Alexander and I were sitting in his Berkeley kitchen, talking about "latent centers", those ripe places in th...
Monday, December 20, 2004

The stack

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Noam Chomsky, talking about the social responsibility of the intellectual, said that most facts about US foreign policy are, even when in of...

The Approach

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Exhaustive listing of the influences of two influential people would be incredibly boring, for you and for me. And I simply don't want ...

Chomsky & Alexander

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The computer was the invention of curious people. Not computer scientists. It's your choice where to start the history of computing. ...
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