From researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_actual_difference_between_1st_order_and_higher_order_logic What is the actual difference between 1st order and higher order logic? Yes, I know. They say, the 2nd order logic is more expressive, but it is…
I was asked to comment on this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/s1t2c/netsec_how_would_you_design_an_electronic_voting/ This post is written with the assumption that a bitcoin-like system is used. Nirvana / perfect solution fallacy…
Murray (in Human Accomplishment) claims that knowledge of a field and judgement of the quality of items in that field follow each other. That's testable. What about this: -…
Someone needed this, so I made a quick collection. Introductory and more philosophical http://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/pw/text/pw_all.pdf Introductory not so philosophical/more formal http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/0415400678.Routledge.Logic_.An_.Introduction.Dec_.2005.pdf http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/0262511266.The_.MIT_.Press_.Logic_.Primer.-.2nd.Edition.Feb_.2001.pdf http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-Concise-Introduction-To-Logic-Hurley-7th-ed.pdf More advanced and very formal…
Perhaps the easiest way to convince yourself is by scanning the literature of soft psychology over the last 30 years and noticing what happens to theories. Most of them suffer…
The assignment was: Any aspect? :D I just wrote stuff about formal logic. So no more research was needed. Lucky. SMU paper 1
General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing they become fixed rules of life and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. Consequently…
[Philip_E._Tetlock]_Expert_Political_Judgment_How(Bookos.org) Very interesting book! ---- Game Theorists. The rivalry between Sherlock Holmes and the evil genius Professor Moriarty illustrates how indeterminacy can arise as a natural by-product of rational agents…
The Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don’t Nate Silver 544p It is a pretty interesting book especially becus it covers some areas…
Cambridge.University.Press.Analyzing.Grammar.An.Introduction.Jun.2005 free pdf download Overall, there is nothing much to say about this book. It covers most stuff. Neither particularly good, or interesting, or particularly bad or uninteresting, IMO.…