broke: "poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing. mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things"
woke: "poetry is the art of saying many things. mathematics is the art of saying one thing"
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Anyone who’s debugged a complicated edge case knows just how damn hard it can be to say one thing Right.
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alternatively: and tweeting is the art of saying nothing and everything all at once
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baroque: math is a language and so has its own particular poetic forms
I've been playing around with Levels of Mysticism.
From the aphoristic koan . . . to the explanatory paragraph.
Let’s try:
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Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing. Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things
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Math is about capturing abstractions.
Poetry is about pointing different fingers to ineffable moon.
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