Sometime ago Wolfram Alpha went live. Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine, so naturally it get’s compared to Google, and other new search engines. In many cases the results for the comparison isn’t in favor for Wolfram Alpha. The Register writes: Alpha is the finest example of the tragedy that results when an academic [...]
Do you know Maslows pyramid of Needs? No? Great, because it is all wrong anyway. At least the pyramid part is wrong. But chances are even if you don’t know Maslow and his pyramid you might be using it, and probably using the part that is wrong. So let’s start with the pyramid. In 1954 [...]
Many business people don’t understand Boolean logic, at least not on the abstract level that developers are used to. And that is perfectly ok, since they don’t have to instruct stupid things like computers to do their work. They either talk to other people, who are happy to base decision on a handful of examples [...]