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Preparing the Babeldaob Island Urban Resilience Project (formerly Strengthening Urban Planning and Management)

By www.adb.org
Published On :: 2026

For approval in 2023.


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Scientific Babel : how science was done before and after global English [Electronic book] / Michael D. Gordin.

By encore.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.


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How to Add Native Keyword Aliases to Babel

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Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:09:13 +0000

Those of you who follow this blog know that not every blog post is an endorsement of a technique but simply a tutorial how to accomplish something. Sometimes the technique described is probably not something you should do. This is one of those blog posts. The Babel parser is an essential tool in the web […]

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DAVIDSEN, J.: World Is Babel and Ivory (The) / Cruel to Be Kind / Closer (FIGURA Ensemble, Jakob Davidsens Chamber Orchestra) (8.226137)

By www.naxos.com
Published On :: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT


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The “So-called Tower of Babel”

By www.bldgblog.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:10:50 +0000

[Image: The “so-called Tower of Babel,” photographed in 1932; courtesy Library of Congress.] I posted these on social media the other day, but I thought I’d include them here simply because of how much I love the casually jaw-dropping caption used for these over at the Library of Congress. This eerie pile of bricks looming … Continue reading "The “So-called Tower of Babel”"


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The Language of Science and the Tower of Babel

By decisions-and-info-gaps.blogspot.com
Published On :: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:23:00 +0000


And God said: Behold one people with one language for them all ... and now nothing that they venture will be kept from them. ... [And] there God mixed up the language of all the land. (Genesis, 11:6-9)

"Philosophy is written in this grand book the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and to read the alphabet in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics." Galileo Galilei

Language is power over the unknown. 

Mathematics is the language of science, and computation is the modern voice in which this language is spoken. Scientists and engineers explore the book of nature with computer simulations of swirling galaxies and colliding atoms, crashing cars and wind-swept buildings. The wonders of nature and the powers of technological innovation are displayed on computer screens, "continually open to our gaze." The language of science empowers us to dispel confusion and uncertainty, but only with great effort do we change the babble of sounds and symbols into useful, meaningful and reliable communication. How we do that depends on the type of uncertainty against which the language struggles.

Mathematical equations encode our understanding of nature, and Galileo exhorts us to learn this code. One challenge here is that a single equation represents an infinity of situations. For instance, the equation describing a flowing liquid captures water gushing from a pipe, blood coursing in our veins, and a droplet splashing from a puddle. Gazing at the equation is not at all like gazing at the droplet. Understanding grows by exposure to pictures and examples. Computations provide numerical examples of equations that can be realized as pictures. Computations can simulate nature, allowing us to explore at our leisure.

Two questions face the user of computations: Are we calculating the correct equations? Are we calculating the equations correctly? The first question expresses the scientist's ignorance - or at least uncertainty - about how the world works. The second question reflects the programmer's ignorance or uncertainty about the faithfulness of the computer program to the equations. Both questions deal with the fidelity between two entities. However, the entities involved are very different and the uncertainties are very different as well.

The scientist's uncertainty is reduced by the ingenuity of the experimenter. Equations make predictions that can be tested by experiment. For instance, Galileo predicted that small and large balls will fall at the same rate, as he is reported to have tested from the tower of Pisa. Equations are rejected or modified when their predictions don't match the experimenter's observation. The scientist's uncertainty and ignorance are whittled away by testing equations against observation of the real world. Experiments may be extraordinarily subtle or difficult or costly because nature's unknown is so endlessly rich in possibilities. Nonetheless, observation of nature remorselessly cuts false equations from the body of scientific doctrine. God speaks through nature, as it were, and "the Eternal of Israel does not deceive or console." (1 Samuel, 15:29). When this observational cutting and chopping is (temporarily) halted, the remaining equations are said to be "validated" (but they remain on the chopping block for further testing).

The programmer's life is, in one sense, more difficult than the experimenter's. Imagine a huge computer program containing millions of lines of code, the accumulated fruit of thousands of hours of effort by many people. How do we verify that this computation faithfully reflects the equations that have ostensibly been programmed? Of course they've been checked again and again for typos or logical faults or syntactic errors. Very clever methods are available for code verification. Nonetheless, programmers are only human, and some infidelity may slip through. What remorseless knife does the programmer have with which to verify that the equations are correctly calculated? Testing computation against observation does not allow us to distinguish between errors in the equations, errors in the program, and compensatory errors in both.

The experimenter compares an equation's prediction against an observation of nature. Like the experimenter, the programmer compares the computation against something. However, for the programmer, the sharp knife of nature is not available. In special cases the programmer can compare against a known answer. More frequently the programmer must compare against other computations which have already been verified (by some earlier comparison). The verification of a computation - as distinct from the validation of an equation - can only use other high-level human-made results. The programmer's comparisons can only be traced back to other comparisons. It is true that the experimenter's tests are intermediated by human artifacts like calipers or cyclotrons. Nonetheless, bedrock for the experimenter is the "reality out there". The experimenter's tests can be traced back to observations of elementary real events. The programmer does not have that recourse. One might say that God speaks to the experimenter through nature, but the programmer has no such Voice upon which to rely.

The tower built of old would have reached the heavens because of the power of language. That tower was never completed because God turned talk into babble and dispersed the people across the land. Scholars have argued whether the story prescribes a moral norm, or simply describes the way things are, but the power of language has never been disputed.

The tower was never completed, just as science, it seems, has a long way to go. Genius, said Edison, is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. A good part of the sweat comes from getting the language right, whether mathematical equations or computer programs.

Part of the challenge is finding order in nature's bubbling variety. Each equation captures a glimpse of that order, adding one block to the structure of science. Furthermore, equations must be validated, which is only a stop-gap. All blocks crumble eventually, and all equations are fallible and likely to be falsified.

Another challenge in science and engineering is grasping the myriad implications that are distilled into an equation. An equation compresses and summarizes, while computer simulations go the other way, restoring detail and specificity. The fidelity of a simulation to the equation is usually verified by comparing against other simulations. This is like the dictionary paradox: using words to define words.

It is by inventing and exploiting symbols that humans have constructed an orderly world out of the confusing tumult of experience. With symbols, like with blocks in the tower, the sky is the limit.


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'Virgil van Dijk is a Liverpool leader... and Gini Wijnaldum is incredible' - Ryan Babel hails Dutch duo

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-04-17T10:41:16Z

Former Liverpool winger Ryan Babel has lavished praise upon the club's Dutch duo Georginio Wijnaldum and Virgil van Dijk.


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Ryan Babel claims egos prevented Holland from winning 2010 World Cup final

By www.dailymail.co.uk
Published On :: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:31:09 GMT

The Dutch, managed by Bert Van Marwijk in 2010, were defeated in the final by Spain following an extra-time winner by midfield maestro Andres Iniesta in South Africa.


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Estonia 0-4 Holland: Ryan Babel scores twice before Memphis Depay and Georginio Wijnaldum seal rout

By www.dailymail.co.uk
Published On :: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 22:36:43 GMT

Ryan Babel scored twice as a rampant Holland claimed a comfortable 4-0 victory over Estonia in their Euro 2020 Group C qualifier on Monday.


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Raging Ryan Babel throws himself to the floor and rolls around as he mocks Allan Nyom's overreaction

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Published On :: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 23:15:48 +0000

Babel was so incensed by the reaction of the former West Brom defender that he decided to copy his action, falling to the floor and rolling around before mocking his opponent with a fake cry.


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A psychoanalytic exploration on sameness and otherness: beyond Babel? / edited by Anne-Marie Schlösser

By library.mit.edu
Published On :: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 06:48:05 EDT

Dewey Library - BD460.O74 P88 2020


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How to Add Native Keyword Aliases to Babel

By davidwalsh.name
Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:09:13 +0000

Those of you who follow this blog know that not every blog post is an endorsement of a technique but simply a tutorial how to accomplish something. Sometimes the technique described is probably not something you should do. This is one of those blog posts. The Babel parser is an essential tool in the web […]

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171 JSJ Babel with Sebastian McKenzie

By devchat.tv
Published On :: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:00:00 -0400

02:28 - Sebastian McKenzie Introduction

02:53 - Babel (Pronunciation Clarification)

05:56 - History

09:14 - The State of Babel

09:59 - Babel and the TC39 Process

11:54 - Features That Can’t Be Transpiled

  • Weak Maps and Proxies    

13:45 - Readability and Performance Output

18:12 - Plugin Architecture

19:58 - ES6/2015 Feature Implementation

  • Blockscoping
  • Labels
  • Exceptions
  • Destructuring

25:49 - The Birth of Babel

26:45 - Babel vs Traceur

28:08 - Future Babel Features

  • Code Optimization
  • Minification
  • Linting

30:15 - The Status of ES2015 and ES2016

31:01 - Browser Support

35:03 - Marketing

35:59 - TypeScript

37:24 - Babel Development and Labor

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Nodevember (Aimee)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Dave)
Yellowstone National Park (Dave)
React Rally (Dave)
Iterativ: AngularJS Kurs (Chuck)
Hire Thom Parkin! (Chuck)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Sebastian)
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JSJ 321: Babel and Open Source Software with Henry Zhu

By devchat.tv
Published On :: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:00:00 -0400

Panel:

  • Charles Max Wood
  • Aimee Knight
  • AJ ONeal
  • Joe Eames

Special Guests: Henry Zhu

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Henry Zhu about Babel and open source software. Henry is one of the maintainers on Babel, which is a JavaScript compiler, and recently left this job to work on doing open source full time as well as working on Babel. They talk about where Babel is today, what it actually is, and his focus on his open source career. They also touch on how he got started in open source, his first PR, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

  • Henry intro
  • Babel update
  • Sebastian McKenzie was the original creator of Babel
  • Has learned a lot about being a maintainer
  • What is Babel?
  • JavaScript compiler
  • You never know who your user is
  • Has much changed with Babel since Sebastian left?
  • Working on open source
  • How did you get started in pen source?
  • The ability to learn a lot from open source
  • Atrocities of globalization
  • More decentralization from GitHub
  • Gitea and GitLab
  • Gitea installer
  • Open source is more closed now
  • His first PR
  • JSCS
  • Auto-fixing
  • Prettier
  • Learning more about linting
  • You don’t have to have formal training to be successful
  • Codefund.io
  • Sustainability of open source
  • And much, much more!

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The Babel paradox

By digital.lib.usf.edu
Published On :: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:10:03 -0400


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