Posts tagged 'abstraction'

The mathematics of fantasy

20070302Fri

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I was excited by learning inductive logic for the first time. Given the details of a certain situation, what can be induced to apply to any subsequent instance? While this may pertain to a discrete reality, I’ve recently come to believe that this process is the core of fantasy, as well.

Evolution as abstraction

20061030Mon

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This weekend I finally bit the bullet and jumped into Ruby on Rails. The experience blew the dust off old memories of writing BASIC programs with my dad on our Commodore, which inevitably got me thinking about human evolution.