NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 10 January 2012 Lisp NYC Eating and Drinking

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what="unofficial Lisp NYC announcement"
edits="Jay Sulzberger made so many changes,
that this announcement cannot be considered official.">

Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:03:39 -0500
From: Heow Goodman <li...@alphageeksinc.com>
To: LispNYC <li...@lispnyc.org>, lisp-a...@lispnyc.org
Subject: Re: Lisp Meeting: Tue Jan 10th, 7:00 to 9:00 at Sunburnt Cow,

Lisp NYC will meet Tuesday 10 January 2012 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
at the Sunburnt Cow, which is at

137 Avenue C (near Ninth Street)
on the Island of the Manahattoes

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=137+Avenue+C%2C+New+York%2C+NY


Social Hour at The 'Cow

Join us for food and drink and talk. We will perhaps discuss the
lambda calculus, with particular attention to the genealogy of
guinea pigs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewall_Wright
[page was last modified on 15 December 2011 at 22:13]


As a preview to next month's meeting, Jay Sulzberger will
gratefully accept your questions and drinks (one question per
drink - offer not valid in Utah) :-) The first question will be

What does the Scheme procedure defined by

(define gate-specs->io-behavior
(lambda (src licd ricd)
(lambda (li ri)
(let ((outputs-of-src (src)))
(cons
(licd li (car outputs-of-src))
(ricd (cdr outputs-of-src) ri))))))

have to do with John Bell's Two Theorems and Judea Pearl's
wonderful book "Causality, Second Edition"?


John Bell's Two Theorems are presented in the book "Speakable and
Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics", in the chapter "On the
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox". The First Theorem is implicit
in the discussion on page 15 of the book. A few pages later, the
Second Theorem is explicitly laid out. Here is a BibTeX entry
for "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics", taken from
Google's catalogue:

@book{bell2004speakable,
title={Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics: collected papers on quantum philosophy},
author={Bell, J.S.},
isbn={9780521523387},
lccn={2004557644},
series={Collected papers on quantum philosophy},
url={http://books.google.com/books?id=FGnnHxh2YtQC},
year={2004},
publisher={Cambridge University Press}
}


Judea Pearl's "Causality, Second Edition" presents a careful and
persuasive explication of the hypotheses of John Bell's First
Theorem, and includes a long series of clarifications and
applications of the general theory underlying Bell's First
Theorem. Here is a BibTeX entry for "Causality, Second Edition",
taken from Google's catalogue:

@book{pearl2009causality,
title={Causality: models, reasoning, and inference},
author={Pearl, J.},
isbn={9780521773621},
url={http://books.google.com/books?id=6WfQjwEACAAJ},
year={2009},
publisher={Cambridge Univ. Press}
}


And here is the circuit diagram of any Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen circuit:

http://www.panix.com/~jays/EPR-Diagram1.png

which circuit is fully specified when the behavior of the source
gate src, the behavior of the left interaction chamber device
licd, and the behavior of the right interaction chamber device
ricd is specified.


Jay Sulzberger
for Lisp NYC Cabal
There is no Lisp NYC Cabal.

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Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
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