[OT] "Pre-announcement" of Python-based "computing appliance"project.

[Greg Ewing]

Ville Vainio wrote:
> Still, I'm
> delighted to see anti-deterministic theories being debunked also in
> the scientific circles.

The word isn't "debunked", it's "refined". When Einstein
came up with relativity, Newtonian mechanics didn't
suddenly become "bunk". On the contrary, it remains a
very successful theory within its domain of applicability
and is still very much used. The same will likely be
true of current quantum theories vs. anything that comes
up in the future.

> Scientists are perhaps a bit too eager to think that they are
> beginning to understand ultimate reality when they just have some new
> theories that support their empiric data.

But scientists don't usually claim to understand any
such thing. Generally they're well aware that their
theories are no more than "current best knowledge".

They may not *say* that very often in so many words,
but that's only because to them it's something that's
self-evident and doesn't need saying.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg