Abuse of Notation

title: Predictability layout: microblog category: microblog tags: zen poetry — Reality is getting less and less predictable.

About all the terrible things right now that are happening, what can you do?

Weird places where I encounter the concept of #entropy Value, according to some theory of economics, is created by rearranging the natural resources, given to us in a special way.

In the 19th century, Copernicus, Newton, Galilei et al pushed a revolutionary new idea that reshaped the way we think… but no, it’s not talking about cosmology, but about theology.

When the tower crumbles, some will laugh some will cry, some will fall from the top, some will be buried below.

Everything we do to secure ourselves, every decision we make out of fear of the future, ends up destroying us, ends up making our future a little more bleak — the closer we are to the public ideal of “success”, the farther we go from our own private, idea…

I should stop doing category theory.

In my last post about generality, I tried to show how our ambition to discover ideas that are all-encompassing and eternal makes our worldview crumble, leaving us unable to think clearly even about simple issues with obvious solutions.

The level of progress in programming language design: Shortly after the first ever programming language was created, it’s author said that the language’s whole paradigm is flawed and we should do functional programming instead*.

title: A monad layout: microblog category: microblog tags: programming haskell — A monad is when you know how to convert $M (M a)$ to $M a$, but not $M a$ to $a$.