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A beautiful and melancoly book. I have read it many, many times. It tells us so much about the way this one mathematician thought about his work and about the source of his creativity. A very narrow view, poetically expressed. A false view when stated as a general insight. Also a sad illustration of the harm done to creative minds by the competitive Oxbridge system at the time. This whole world now lies so far behind us, doesn't it. I guess it ended in the 1930s.
Hardy's statement is wrong and harmful, but God has forgiven him, and she has placed him amongst her Angels and Archangels, where he helps them prove heavenly theorems. :-)
Littlewood mentions an endearing story about Hardy. Hardy was a meticulous proofreader who never missed any errors. Once when he received the proof of one of his own papers from the printers, he did overlook one typo. What had he missed? A mis-spelling of his own name in the reference list!
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@marick
I'm sorry that you were offended.
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@marick An exception is perhaps the late Edsger Dijkstra. He wrote often about the important of beauty in programming and computer science generally.
In particular, he noted that beauty and elegance are the greatest virtues that a computer program could have and that
‘when we recognize the battle against chaos, mess, and unmastered complexity as one of computing science's major callings, we must admit that “Beauty is our Business”’,
and
‘in the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a matter of life and death’.
(He seems not to have distinguished elegance and beauty, and he subsumed the aesthetics of computer science within the aesthetics of mathematics. )
At risk of making this an advertisement, for the citations for these quotations and other sources for Dijkstra's views on beauty, I will point to pp.697–699 of my open-access book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large].
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@marick An exception is perhaps the late Edsger Dijkstra. He wrote often about the important of beauty in programming and computer science generally.
In particular, he noted that beauty and elegance are the greatest virtues that a computer program could have and that
‘when we recognize the battle against chaos, mess, and unmastered complexity as one of computing science's major callings, we must admit that “Beauty is our Business”’,
and
‘in the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a matter of life and death’.
(He seems not to have distinguished elegance and beauty, and he subsumed the aesthetics of computer science within the aesthetics of mathematics. )
At risk of making this an advertisement, for the citations for these quotations and other sources for Dijkstra's views on beauty, I will point to pp.697–699 of my open-access book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large].
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@marick An exception is perhaps the late Edsger Dijkstra. He wrote often about the important of beauty in programming and computer science generally.
In particular, he noted that beauty and elegance are the greatest virtues that a computer program could have and that
‘when we recognize the battle against chaos, mess, and unmastered complexity as one of computing science's major callings, we must admit that “Beauty is our Business”’,
and
‘in the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a matter of life and death’.
(He seems not to have distinguished elegance and beauty, and he subsumed the aesthetics of computer science within the aesthetics of mathematics. )
At risk of making this an advertisement, for the citations for these quotations and other sources for Dijkstra's views on beauty, I will point to pp.697–699 of my open-access book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large].
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@marick An exception is perhaps the late Edsger Dijkstra. He wrote often about the important of beauty in programming and computer science generally.
In particular, he noted that beauty and elegance are the greatest virtues that a computer program could have and that
‘when we recognize the battle against chaos, mess, and unmastered complexity as one of computing science's major callings, we must admit that “Beauty is our Business”’,
and
‘in the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a matter of life and death’.
(He seems not to have distinguished elegance and beauty, and he subsumed the aesthetics of computer science within the aesthetics of mathematics. )
At risk of making this an advertisement, for the citations for these quotations and other sources for Dijkstra's views on beauty, I will point to pp.697–699 of my open-access book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large].
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@marick An exception is perhaps the late Edsger Dijkstra. He wrote often about the important of beauty in programming and computer science generally.
In particular, he noted that beauty and elegance are the greatest virtues that a computer program could have and that
‘when we recognize the battle against chaos, mess, and unmastered complexity as one of computing science's major callings, we must admit that “Beauty is our Business”’,
and
‘in the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a matter of life and death’.
(He seems not to have distinguished elegance and beauty, and he subsumed the aesthetics of computer science within the aesthetics of mathematics. )
At risk of making this an advertisement, for the citations for these quotations and other sources for Dijkstra's views on beauty, I will point to pp.697–699 of my open-access book ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large].
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CW: uspol, historical precedent for Mr. Kirk
Racism is racism, white supremacy is white supremacy, regardless of the politeness or erudition with which they are presented.
#PoliteRacism
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@marick The first time I read Nabokov’s #PaleFire, I decided to follow all of the links, depth first. I had to use six or seven numbered bookmarks to mark my place!
Since I was busy with other studies and CS, I read mainly late at night, but when I got sleepy, it took so much time to carefully review my bookmarks that I was wide awake again!
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@marick The first time I read Nabokov’s #PaleFire, I decided to follow all of the links, depth first. I had to use six or seven numbered bookmarks to mark my place!
Since I was busy with other studies and CS, I read mainly late at night, but when I got sleepy, it took so much time to carefully review my bookmarks that I was wide awake again!
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@marick The first time I read Nabokov’s #PaleFire, I decided to follow all of the links, depth first. I had to use six or seven numbered bookmarks to mark my place!
Since I was busy with other studies and CS, I read mainly late at night, but when I got sleepy, it took so much time to carefully review my bookmarks that I was wide awake again!
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@marick The first time I read Nabokov’s #PaleFire, I decided to follow all of the links, depth first. I had to use six or seven numbered bookmarks to mark my place!
Since I was busy with other studies and CS, I read mainly late at night, but when I got sleepy, it took so much time to carefully review my bookmarks that I was wide awake again!
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@marick The first time I read Nabokov’s #PaleFire, I decided to follow all of the links, depth first. I had to use six or seven numbered bookmarks to mark my place!
Since I was busy with other studies and CS, I read mainly late at night, but when I got sleepy, it took so much time to carefully review my bookmarks that I was wide awake again!
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@marick 🧵Klein bottle hat
Cliff Stoll also sells hand-knit Acme Klein Bottle Hats with a matching Mobius Scarf! The Acme ordering experience — including the web page, order confirmation, and shipping notice — is charming.
#kleinbottle #mobiusStrip #knit #hat
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@marick not me, but thanks to your wikipedia link and @k9ox 's link to #elixir / #erlang behaviours, maybe several things are is starting to fall into place.
FYI I remember @marcevers being keen on DCI, but it didn't speak to me at the time. I now see links with the kind of designs that flow from #EventStorming . And somehow behaviours in #elixir make sense. I was programming a distributed system in #PhoenixLiveView without noticing (until the book pointed it out, that is :-) ) . -
@marick not me, but thanks to your wikipedia link and @k9ox 's link to #elixir / #erlang behaviours, maybe several things are is starting to fall into place.
FYI I remember @marcevers being keen on DCI, but it didn't speak to me at the time. I now see links with the kind of designs that flow from #EventStorming . And somehow behaviours in #elixir make sense. I was programming a distributed system in #PhoenixLiveView without noticing (until the book pointed it out, that is :-) ) . -
@marick not me, but thanks to your wikipedia link and @k9ox 's link to #elixir / #erlang behaviours, maybe several things are is starting to fall into place.
FYI I remember @marcevers being keen on DCI, but it didn't speak to me at the time. I now see links with the kind of designs that flow from #EventStorming . And somehow behaviours in #elixir make sense. I was programming a distributed system in #PhoenixLiveView without noticing (until the book pointed it out, that is :-) ) . -
@marick not me, but thanks to your wikipedia link and @k9ox 's link to #elixir / #erlang behaviours, maybe several things are is starting to fall into place.
FYI I remember @marcevers being keen on DCI, but it didn't speak to me at the time. I now see links with the kind of designs that flow from #EventStorming . And somehow behaviours in #elixir make sense. I was programming a distributed system in #PhoenixLiveView without noticing (until the book pointed it out, that is :-) ) . -
@marick not me, but thanks to your wikipedia link and @k9ox 's link to #elixir / #erlang behaviours, maybe several things are is starting to fall into place.
FYI I remember @marcevers being keen on DCI, but it didn't speak to me at the time. I now see links with the kind of designs that flow from #EventStorming . And somehow behaviours in #elixir make sense. I was programming a distributed system in #PhoenixLiveView without noticing (until the book pointed it out, that is :-) ) . -
CW: uspol
@marick
TIL about #GenerationJones.Check the wild thread of responses under this, if you dare: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/112278246002566044
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@marick @PragmaticAndy @johannarothman @RonJeffries
A lot of it just an Upton Sinclair quote meets #KnowledgeBlindness. -
@marick Back in 2002 I saw Alan Kay give a talk, where he talked about Harvard grads believing that seasons were caused by the Earth being closer/further from the Sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXb7Oq13pjQ
My thought: maybe you science writers/teachers should stop showing ridiculously exaggerated ellipses for orbits. #ChartJunk
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The UAW has been in talks with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis since mid-July working to secure a 40% raise in pay, restoration of pensions for ...#7ActionNews #BigThree #Chrysley #Detroit #FCA #FiatChrysler #Ford #GeneralMotors #MarickMasters #ShawnFain
Autoworkers prepare for a potential strike amid negotiations -
@marick Yes, #monorepos have advantages, but are not without downsides:
* tags apply to the whole repo, which is awkward for versioning and releasing independent artefacts
* carbon/money costs can be relatively high when "safe" changes, e.g. to docs or website, trigger expensive CI checks
* all or nothing in terms of private/public,
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@RonJeffries @marick
Or hold forth with opinions about whether the person who did was right to do or not. I'm leaning dangerously close to holding an opinion, and then the irony police would, doubly ironically, have to arrest me. So I shall cease my chuntering there :P -
Ted Nelson’s script for his proposed #PaleFire #Hypertext SJCC demo. Hypertext Editing System, 1969
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Ted Nelson’s script for his proposed #PaleFire #Hypertext SJCC demo. Hypertext Editing System, 1969
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Ted Nelson’s script for his proposed #PaleFire #Hypertext SJCC demo. Hypertext Editing System, 1969
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Ted Nelson’s script for his proposed #PaleFire #Hypertext SJCC demo. Hypertext Editing System, 1969