If We Do Not Understand Our Relationship with a Minority, We Will Not Understand The Minority at All

Homeopathy: do not condemn what we do not understand.

Almeida’s ‘critical’ review of homeopathy is not based on systematic review of the evidence and is strongly biased against homeopathy. There have been three systematic reviews/meta-analyses of ‘general’ scope (ie including all clinical trials of homeopathy), published in peer-reviewed journals. All have yielded positive conclusions. Almeida conceals these conclusions by highly selective quotati...

Neuroscience: What We Cannot Model, We Do Not Understand

To understand computations in neuronal circuits, a model of a small patch of cortex has been developed that can describe the firing regime in the visual system remarkably well.

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Do we understand the wiring of our systems ?

Today’s large-scale transaction systems are complex integrations of many mission-critical applications and databases, tied to external systems via messages and protocols. Thus, there are many schemas, views, method signatures, mappings, etc. that need to be wired together seamlessly. The correctness of this wiring is paramount. However, do we always grasp the whole picture? Can we formally char...

Education of Information Experts: Do We Understand our Ultimative Needs?

It is generally accepted that the knowledge of information technology experts should be flexible, open, and multidisciplinary. The necessity of such knowledge profile is strengthened by the current revolution in software leading to global confederated software systems. The flexibility and the openness of knowledge is possible only if the kernel of the knowledge of software professionals include...