[LRUG] talk idea

Hakan Şenol Ensari hakan.ensari at papercavalier.com
Thu Jun 14 06:48:55 PDT 2012


Dave, check this out:

https://github.com/hakanensari/certainty

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, David Nolan <dave at textgoeshere.org.uk>wrote:

> Two related but separate questions: do we need nil? do we need more than
> true and false? Talk is, or rather will be, organised round a tour of
> many-valued logics and their implementation (read - hackage) in Ruby.
>
> Mix of code, logic, and historical anecdote.
>
> Rated PG.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 14 June 2012 11:34, David Nolan <dave at textgoeshere.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any slots free soon?
>>>
>>
>> Not for the July meeting (just waiting for blurbs before I publish it) -
>> but that doesn't mean we couldn't hear from you at the August meeting if
>> there's some interest.
>>
>> I've got this idea about nil. Well, it's not about nil. It's about
>>> central heating, and going bald, Andean tribes, a stained-glass window,
>>> superconducting quantum computers and wooden computers, and
>>> Jainism. Aristotle is in there, 1965 crops up, and anyone who says
>>> 'Sapir-Whorf' loses.
>>>
>>> I guess it's about true, false, and stuff that's neither.
>>>
>>> There'll be some Ruby but I don't think there's any danger of it being
>>> useful in your day job, unless your code runs on vintage 1958
>>> processors from Kazan.
>>>
>>
>> Without asking for spoilers, can you elaborate on what this talk would
>> actually be about? What's the central thesis?
>>
>>  If there's some interest, I'll get on it.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dave
>>> --
>>> @davenolan
>>>
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