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Category archive for ‘General’

• Stuff your Java model into your Rails project

  10 June 07 • 2 comments

  The upcoming, and now recent, release of JRuby 1.0, along with some conversations with various friends has left me thinking a lot recently about how to integrate a Java project with a Ruby (on Rails) project. If you have an existing domain model written in Java then the reasons you might want to do this [...]

• New Post, New Photos

  28 February 07 • 0 comment

  Well I have posted anything for a while, which to my suprise several of you nice people commented about while I was at SUDC this weekend. The main reason is that I had a stomach bug/food poisoning incident a few weeks ago, then was hit by two colds in a row, that’s in addition to [...]

• Sometimes Models Make Reality

  23 January 07 • 0 comment

  Ok, so it’s important that we understand that there is a distinction between the models, or paradigms that scientists use and the real world. But when I first started to think about these things I got a bit confused. What about computers? Computer people always say “that’s not possible” without any hint that there is [...]

• Believe Data, not Models.

  16 January 07 • 1 comment

  I recently wrote about what a scientific model is, and what are the limits of using models. Briefly, you can’t prove that the language used (logic) is consistent, and you can’t prove that the model really maps onto the world. Now I want to talk about why it is important for scientists to understand this, [...]

• Saturday night hospital incident

  8 January 07 • 0 comment

  On Saturday night my grandfather suffered a transient ischaemic attack. I got out of the tube, on my way to meet friends to discover a voicemail from my mother. She was in the emergency resuscitation ward of the Homerton Hospital with my grandfather, who had suffered an incident of some form. Since then he has [...]

• When Scientific Models End

  3 January 07 • 3 comments

  Finally I have managed to describe what I want to say about how science works. The concept of a model, that can be manipulated by some tools, and that there are similarities (isomorphism if you want to be pompous) between the model and the way the real world works. I have also explained, though probably [...]

• An Orrery – All of science in a clockwork model

  26 December 06 • 1 comment

  An orrery is a mechanical device. It has a big sphere – representing the Sun, at its centre. Connected to a clockwork mechanism are arms that rotate about the “Sun”, at the end of each arm is a smaller globe, representing one of the planets. You can wind the mechanism’s cogs backwards to see the [...]

• Monothestic Religion and Science

  10 October 06 • 3 comments

  Normally I don’t like to talk much about religion, but I came across an idea last night that was so interesting I thought I had to write it down. Simply put, the idea is that science is an unintentional side effect of a religious system that believes in a single god. The argument goes something [...]

• Can we trust logic – revisited

  10 October 06 • 1 comment

  A few days ago (well, more than a few days ago, but some technical problems got in the way since I wrote this post) I wrote about how logic cannot be conclusively shown to be correct. I mentioned that the argument is explained better in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach. I knew it was actually [...]

• Can we trust logic

  21 September 06 • 0 comment

  For some time I have been thinking about writing a series of articles on the problems with the scientific approach. I believe in the scientific approach, and I think it’s correct, but there are problems with it and only with a proper understanding of them, can we hope to not be bitten by those problems. [...]

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