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Quotes of the Day (Karl Popper Edition)

Observations and perceptions may be psychological, but observability is not. The Logic of Scientific Discovery, pg. 103 Thus the real situation is quite different from the one visualized by the naïve empiricist, or a believer in inductive logic. He thinks that we begin by collecting and arranging our experiences, and so ascend the ladder of [...]

Frontiers in American/French Animosity

The blog Computational Complexity usually focuses on issues of, well, computational complexity, but sometimes a post veers off in another direction, like this particular post on the relative strength of French engineering: In my last post one of the comments asserted without justification that The French will never be as good at Engineering as the [...]