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Having skimmed through the paper accessible at the end of the first link, I am leaning towards (1). It contains a barrage of eye-assaulting notation, lots of di

Having skimmed through the paper accessible at the end of the first link, I am leaning towards (1). It contains a barrage of eye-assaulting notation, lots of digressions and repetition, and basically no formal substance (which, for a logic/computation paper, is bizarre).

emmelaich 6y ago
His WP talk page is a shit-show. I'm leaning towards 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carl_Hewitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carl_Hewitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACarl_Hewitt%2FArchive_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACarl_Hewitt%2FArchive_2 (to disclose, I am not qualified to actually judge the arguments)
- ProfHewitt 6y ago
  As is common with many social media platforms, Wikipedia has huge problems with accountability :-( It's not worthwhile to go into the whole sordid story on HN.
ProfHewitt 6y ago
Sorry that mathematical notation is causing you problems. How do you see the article lacking in formal substance?
- ganafagol 6y ago
  > Sorry that mathematical notation is causing you problems For somebody who elsewhere in this thread literally asked HN discussion participants to "not degrade into personal attacks" this was an unbelievably arrogant remark. What about giving us some summary on how the overall community of researchers in the theory of computation area are thinking of your breakthrough insights? I'm sure there are some CS Ph.D.s in here that are interested in some context.
  - ProfHewitt 6y ago
    Sorry that you took the remark as arrogant. Mathematical notation can be difficult to grasp :-( It would be great if other people joined the discussion!
    - ganafagol 6y ago
      I suggest you bring the discussion to the appropriate academic forums like conferences and workshops. Doing this via wikipedia and hacker news instead makes it look like your academic peers have decided it's not worth their time so that you are coming here instead. Once the academic community with researchers in the same field accepts your breakthrough results, it will be easier to convince us that it's legit. And it will come here all by itself, without you having to do active promotion.
      - ProfHewitt 6y ago
        Of course I participate in academic and research forums. For example, see the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4X0l2298k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4X0l2298k Participating in forums such as Hacker News is also important :-)

emmelaich 6y ago

His WP talk page is a shit-show. I'm leaning towards 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carl_Hewitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carl_Hewitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACarl_Hewitt%2FArchive_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACarl_Hewitt%2FArchive_2 (to disclose, I am not qualified to actually judge the arguments)

ProfHewitt 6y ago
As is common with many social media platforms, Wikipedia has huge problems with accountability :-( It's not worthwhile to go into the whole sordid story on HN.

ProfHewitt 6y ago

Sorry that mathematical notation is causing you problems. How do you see the article lacking in formal substance?

ganafagol 6y ago
> Sorry that mathematical notation is causing you problems For somebody who elsewhere in this thread literally asked HN discussion participants to "not degrade into personal attacks" this was an unbelievably arrogant remark. What about giving us some summary on how the overall community of researchers in the theory of computation area are thinking of your breakthrough insights? I'm sure there are some CS Ph.D.s in here that are interested in some context.
- ProfHewitt 6y ago
  Sorry that you took the remark as arrogant. Mathematical notation can be difficult to grasp :-( It would be great if other people joined the discussion!
  - ganafagol 6y ago
    I suggest you bring the discussion to the appropriate academic forums like conferences and workshops. Doing this via wikipedia and hacker news instead makes it look like your academic peers have decided it's not worth their time so that you are coming here instead. Once the academic community with researchers in the same field accepts your breakthrough results, it will be easier to convince us that it's legit. And it will come here all by itself, without you having to do active promotion.
    - ProfHewitt 6y ago
      Of course I participate in academic and research forums. For example, see the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4X0l2298k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4X0l2298k Participating in forums such as Hacker News is also important :-)