If you tried to reconstruct the underlying unified scientific theory underlying star trek based on clues from how they talk, you’d discover it’s the spreadsheet
It’s basically all percentages and budget reallocations
“Remodulate shield frequency” = column op
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In fact this is generally true of television science. The entire show of Eureka is low-code spreadsheet science that uses some VBA at most.
Anytime you see percentages it is spreadsheet science.
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Eureka is an underrated show. All the problems of 2022, solved in 2010 in a contained town of smirking bureaucratic-science geniuses who brag about their PhDs and Nobels to each other. It’s pure “I Fucking Love Science!” energy.
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stateful computation is not "spreadsheet" specific. it's a general theory of computation defined as monads.
spreadsheets just make state and monadic operations clear, where imperative languages don't.
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