John McCarthy

Person · Open Library

Works

142

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1945

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,972

Total plays

6,084

My Commitment to You: To help you grow musically. Enthusiasm and passion keeps you going, so I’m constantly thinking of new ways to spark that interest. We’re committed to your learning, and to providing fun & easy-to-follow programs! A Bit of History: Most of you know me from the Instructional DVDs, but did you know that I started teaching music at the age of 13? Giving private guitar instruction out of my parents’ house, I spent the cash I earned on pizza and soda for my friends; I thoug

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,552x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,600x

3. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,691x

4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,901x

5. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,568x

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Quotes

• “[This] is or should be our main scientific activity — studying the structure of information and the structure of problem solving processes independently of applications and independently of its realization in animals or humans.”
• “LISP is now the second oldest programming language in present widespread use (after FORTRAN)... Its core occupies some kind of local optimum in the space of programming languages given that static friction discourages purely notational changes. Recursive use of conditional expressions, representation of symbolic information externally by lists and internally by list structure, and representation of program in the same way will probably have a very long life.”
• “One can even conjecture that Lisp owes its survival specifically to the fact that its programs are lists, which everyone, including me, has regarded as a disadvantage.”
• “When we program a computer to make choices intelligently after determining its options, examining their consequences, and deciding which is most favorable or most moral or whatever, we must program it to take an attitude towards its freedom of choice essentially isomorphic to that which a human must take to his own.”
• “When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found.”
• “It's difficult to be rigorous about whether a machine really 'knows', 'thinks', etc., because we're hard put to define these things. We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.”

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Official website

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