George Sudarkoff

Snow in Calabasas, CA

Kanan Road was covered in snow about 1 p.m. Wednesday, and snow was reported to be falling in Calabasas as well, covering roads and mountains sides off Mulholland Highway. [The Malibu Times]

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NPR : 'A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe'

This is an NPR's interview with the author of this remarkably captivating book on life, the universe and everything.

Completeness vs. consistency

In the early days of my programming career I was obsessed with completeness of the API's I was constructing. Of course, over the years I learned better, than to waste my time. But I still couldn't construct a clear cut argument against complete API's. Aside from the time constraint issues, "complete" certainly sounds better, than "incomplete". That is before I read the Gödel's Proof. The fog has cleared (but my math is still rusty at best, so I could be blowing smoke, for all I know). Clearly (please do correct me if I am wrong), any given software system is a formal axiomatic system and as such, it is essentially incomplete. So there we go, from now on I don't feel guilty concentrating my efforts on consistency instead of completeness.

I just had to know!