Commentary by Chris Pressey =========================== This work is distributed under a CC-BY-ND-4.0 license, with the following explicit exception: the ratings may be freely used for any purpose with no limitations. Philosophy ---------- ### The Cognitive Connection: Thought and Language in Man and Machine * rating: 3 Begins with a disclaimer that it contains at least one error — which turns out to be a giant understatement. The book is *riddled* with errors, but has a great attitude. Touches on many of the weirder beliefs people have held about logic and language through history (for example, the "logic machines" of [Ramon Llull](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull).) ### Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community * rating: 3 By he of "worse is better" fame. Kind of goes all over the place, but worthwhile for its comparison of object-oriented programming to poetic compression, and for making a case that beauty may not be subjective. ### Tossing Algebraic Flowers down the Great Divide * rating: 3 . ### The \"Self-Valorizing Vanity\" of Philosophers - Daily Nous * rating: 0 . ### What, if anything, can be said about what is unsayable? \| Aeon Essays * rating: 3 . ### HTMLGIANT / The Beginner's Guide to Hegel * rating: 3 . ### What does post-truth mean for a philosopher? - BBC News * rating: 0 . ### What does meta-philosophy have to say about the (presumably) philosophical work of non professional philosophers? * rating: 1 . ### The Philosophy of Computer Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) * rating: 2 * useful: true . ### Alan Kay on Marshal McLuhan and the Personal Computer * rating: 1 . ### The Deep Insights of Alan Kay - mythz blog * rating: 3 .