Still wading through Deepness in the Sky. It has "science the shit out of this" vibe too. No romance, just legibilized cognition model.
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There's something essentially instrumental about industrialized discovery. What bro-science types fetishize. One sign is empiricism>theory.
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@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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jamesmcn now you're just trolling. Elegance vs inelegance is orthogonal to science versus engineering.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@GabrielDuquette Just a label for a particular attitude. Not sure it is necessary. My thesis advisor used to talk about "romantic math"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jamesmcn see Kolmogorov complexity view of theoryThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr I used to work on this stuff, see here: http://biolisp.com/vita/pubs/2001designforscience.pdf …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr, what particular study are you referring to because 'science' is a broad stroke! There's also some of rose colored nostalgia here. -
@Joseph_Santoro err I didn't say it's a bad thing. The nostalgia is all you. - Show replies
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