I agree.
Yes, this is probably misleading and imprecise! But we don’t have a coherent account of what’s going on here.https://twitter.com/bombaybornbum/status/862394132261732353 …
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Unfortunately it’s still an early draft, not yet on the web.
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Mostly, what computers do is *mean things*. We have no coherent account of how this works; if we did, maybe we could do software better!pic.twitter.com/AMkG7kGejg
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I'd guess it's something
@Meaningness wrote, can he link more? I tried making similarish case but much less clearly:https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/transcendental-idealism-and-posts-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I'd say computers "run on" their mechanical implementations. But "We do the representing, not the computer," exactly gets the point across.
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Link might be a bit hard to read, but this is definitely a recognized principle that affects API / language design. https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20161219/029661.html …
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