A New Kind of Science

New Scientist has an interview with Stephen Wolfram about his new book. He may or may not be "the Isaac Newton of the 21st century" but the book sounds interesting. This kind of simulation is going to be hugely important in bioinformatics.

I've been trying to get my head around Mark De Pristo's notes on bioinformatics programming in Scheme. Someday I'd like to work my way through Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

The Navajo Know

s.c.i.'s infiltration of the Irish Times letters page continues with a letter from Julian West in response to John Water's column on road deaths. Tuesday's page had a letter from Kate Hagerty correcting an error in the opening lines of Kevin Myers's column.