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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Is there a link to the whole of this essay?
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I’m afraid it’s just a draft, currently. The stuff I’ve just tweeted is a summary, though! And do check out Brian Smith’s lecture.
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@doriantaylor https://doriantaylor.com/softwares-ailing-mythology … on viewing "the computer...as an expressive medium, with a focus on content" over capability. -
didn't Shannon's definition of computation go something like applying known operations to known information to get at latent information?
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Not sure if relevant... (emphasis on "together")pic.twitter.com/TYPmdGovFE
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Does that work for a robot-automated production line manufacturing e.g cars? *Those* computers are transforming the physical world, right?
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It's developers, operators and users that bring the social component.
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Yes, and UX design and usability disciplines operate primarily in that realm of computing. Good sw design must include users every time.
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Then I don't think these people understand computers. The poor things _are_ inherently mathematical (and physical, I guess).
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