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This is probably off-topic, but I find it a bit irritating that in an article about 'critical thinking' the author is quoting a 2012 paper by some Miyazaki to e
by pzh 9y ago
This is probably off-topic, but I find it a bit irritating that in an article about 'critical thinking' the author is quoting a 2012 paper by some Miyazaki to explain the origin of the word 'algorithm'. I thought we knew about al-khwarizmi long before 2012 and that it is good form that when you present a new fact or discovery, you should try to cite the original research rather than somebody who wrote about it last week.
- gumby 9y agoHe's doing it because he uses the word "algorithm" in a broader sense than simply mathematical formalism. I am not particularly sure I agree with this approach but his use of that particular reference is appropriate in this case. In fact good, since he has a non-standard (or at least nonstandard outside his discipline) usage of the term. Domain-specific jargon that is still too new to have become completely institutionalized.
- theoh 9y agoNo, I disagree. I think he's doing it because he is building on Miyazaki's work (he refers to it multiple times). What's sad about this work is that Kitchin isn't really interested in having a technical discussion. Github is apparently "a code library", and where decompilation should have been mentioned, it is absent. A technical collaborator would have improved the paper in those ways, and assuredly others.