The other day I was in the lab, and a colleague remarked that picking up programming is simple enough. All you really need is a working internet connection and some time on your hands and after you’ve learned the grammar, or so to speak, the paradigms of the language – things like loops, conditionals, if statements – cross over. So even a scripting language like Bash has more in common with a programming language like Lisp than two species of animals, even if they’re both wet. It is a matter attuning one’s mind to the skill at hand and if for instance you find out that you’re not at all suited to the task then it’s best to move on.
*in writing, one’s IQ is 1 standard deviation higher
*in speech, one’s intelligence is revealed, as it is
*in thought, it is an intuitive processes
**I also think about Stross, and other writers. If the process is immediate, like the cut-up technique or transcribing directly from imagination or thought. And of dictation as well, to a secretary or text-to-speech. Really, really, really do not want to use the term stream-of-consciousness? I’ll call it moocow, or cumquat.
- you come across morsels by chance, like blind mice who sniff with the olfactory faculty when the eye contracts as it begins to adjust to seeing in the dark, as the sight begins to dim, we become accustomed to distinguishing amongst the shades only by beginning.
- textual interpretation of scripture or a philosophical tract is independent of authorial intent. so it does not matter what the writers of the gospel intended, or what Plato had in mind when he refers to the virtue of a man to be discovered writ large in the form of a city.
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