Venkatesh Rao

@GabrielDuquette Nothing. I'm just observing a trend in what "science" has come to mean versus what it used to mean when I was in school.

@jamesmcn now you're just trolling. Elegance vs inelegance is orthogonal to science versus engineering.

@GabrielDuquette Just a label for a particular attitude. Not sure it is necessary. My thesis advisor used to talk about "romantic math"

@jamesmcn see Kolmogorov complexity view of theory

@vgr I used to work on this stuff, see here: http://biolisp.com/vita/pubs/2001designforscience.pdf …

@etangent @vgr Direct perception sounds a lot like experience.

@etangent @vgr Yeah, that’s generally called living. The point of a scientific method is to minimise the unreliable perceiver’s role.