"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
I heard the presentation was terrible!
ReplyDeleteSo, the state for each user is in vm, which is passed with each request. The data in Vm is a small memory array, a stack array, a set of registers and some flags. A request string is parsed and the corresponding op performed in vm. Users can inspect after each instruction. Is that the idea? (Do you have a page that displays the Blue Screen of Death?)
ReplyDeleteWell, they can also run code in chunks on the server, depending on whether they choose "Run" or "Step".
DeleteBut generally, yes.