retrogradeorbit

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   by retrogradeorbit 17y ago

   Does the nobel prize even mean anything, anymore? Peace prize winners like Obama and Kissinger (Chile, 1973 anyone?) make me think it doesn't.
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   by retrogradeorbit 17y ago

   But we can't even successfully predict how proteins will fold (only about 70% are predicted correctly) and we presume we know all about chemistry and physics. Yet what we model, and what we observe, are quite different. If true machine cons
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   by retrogradeorbit 19y ago

   It reminds me of something I read in, I think it was, Peopleware (Or it might have been Mythical Man Month). That software by its very nature requires the programme to be perfect or it won't work, and human beings are imperfect and have a h