Monthly Archive for October, 2009

Tattoo mu

Discovery magazine has put together a forum for scientific tattoos, in which you can find: ZFC Curry’s Y combinator, in no less! A glottal stop and Michael Ruse!

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John Pollock, 1940-2009

Certain Doubts and Leiter have announced that John Pollock has died.  We had the fortune of having him as a speaker at CMU during the last FEW. He presented then a controversial paper on probable probabilities and Jay Kadane commented.  The discussion was quite interesting.  Echoes of Henry Kyburg’s philosophy of probability were clear in [...]

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