Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl "Ken" Wilber II (born January 31, 1949, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American writer and public speaker. He has written and lectured about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental psychology. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory.[1] In 1998 he founded the Integral Institute.[2] Biography[edit] Wilber was born in 1949 in Oklahoma City. In 1973 Wilber completed his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness,[5] in which he sought to integrate knowledge from disparate fields. In 1982 New Science Library published his anthology The Holographic Paradigm and other Paradoxes[6] a collection of essays and interviews, including one by David Bohm. In 1983 Wilber married Terry "Treya" Killam who was shortly thereafter diagnosed with breast cancer. Subsequently, Wilber wrote Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (SES), (1995), the first volume of his Kosmos Trilogy. Theory[edit] Holons[edit] Quadrants[edit] AQAL: "All Quadrants All Levels"[edit] Levels or stages[edit]
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Causality Experts Online texts Professor Jim Herod and I have written Multivariable Calculus ,a book which we and a few others have used here at Georgia Tech for two years. We have also proposed that this be the first calculus course in the curriculum here, but that is another story.... Although it is still in print, Calculus,by Gilbert Strang is made available through MIT's OpenCourseWare electronic publishing initiative. Here is one that has also been used here at Georgia Tech. Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics, by Evans Harrell and James Herod. Judea Pearl Judea Pearl (born 1936) is an Israeli-born American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). He is the 2011 winner of the ACM Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning".[1][2][3][4] Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by militants in Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002 for his American and Jewish heritage.[5][6] Biography[edit] Pearl is currently a professor of computer science and statistics and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. Books[edit]
argusdusty/Ferret Foster Gamble Lectures 1 and 2: Analysis of Algorithms I just finished watching the last lecture of MIT's "Introduction to Algorithms" course. Having a great passion for all aspects of computing, I decided to share everything I learned with you, my dear readers! This is the first post in an article series about this course. As I wrote earlier, I am very serious about watching video lectures. There are totally 23 video lectures, each around 1 hour 20 minutes long. Understanding and designing effective algorithms is a very important skill for a top-notch programmer. Let's start with Lecture 1 of this course. Lecture 1: Analysis of Algorithms The first lecture is given by the famous professor Charles E. He starts the lecture by explaining what this course and algorithms will be all about. Designing great software is not just about performance. Here is the list of things more important than performance that Charles presented: He also asks "Why study algorithms and performance at all?". Sometimes performance is correlated with user-friendliness.
Partners An Intro to Crypto Programming using Python This is not an introduction for those who are absolute beginners at programming. Neither is it an introduction for those who are absolute beginners at cryptography. What it is is an introduction to some basic concepts of organizing code, and of applying them to the problem of cracking certain classical ciphers. The basic premise of this tutorial is that writing software for your own use as a part of solving your own problems is a very different thing than writing software for others. When writing software for others, there are necessarily trade-offs ease of use, flexibility, capability, error handling, etc., for which the proper balance is very different than when writing software for your self. There is an old Unix joke that the only necessary error message is "Segmentation fault: core dumped". Creating intuitive user interfaces takes work, robust error handling even more work.