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mircea_popescu: seeing how i'm not an electrical engineer, i'm prone to misinterpret. the boon of ignorance.
mircea_popescu: i'll note you'd have had a much more reliable response had you described rather than shown :)!!!
mircea_popescu has been spending some time looking at this circuitry, understands why it backfeeds now.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it translates to text quite perfectly well, and plainly : "if and only if". but this is familiar to people trained in humanities more than in cs i guess.
mircea_popescu: not unlike ruby programmer imagining "o wow, so much better than asm".
mircea_popescu: so now it's symbolized and you look at it and you figure hey, it's so much better than text
mircea_popescu: the only reason that picture is even meaningful to you is because you long ago digested its text
mircea_popescu: if memory made intelligence, computers'd be pretty smart.
mircea_popescu: and it doesn't start with pharma, freud was closer to a fraud than anything. and all the way back.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, my articles are generally preformed and i just tyoe them out.
mircea_popescu: jurov you know this is nonsense. i store thousands of items.
mircea_popescu: there's no understanding involved in mashing the bits together. i also teach cooking by example only.
mircea_popescu: natural language "ambiguity" is a machine problem, not a human problem.
mircea_popescu: the more important point here was if you're somehow going to leverage the visual processor to think with, rather than whether it sometimes saves representative space for the linguistic processor to conveniently symbolize.
mircea_popescu: (/me could have been deformed by years of insisting pets verbalize as part of their education)
mircea_popescu: the very general case where it's easier to show me than to tell me reduces to pr0n.
mircea_popescu: well that's your point, but notrly what was discussed. a simple mapping from that to "integral" and problem solved.
mircea_popescu: i still dunno why you think the current notation is somehow nonverbal.
mircea_popescu: well actually, under the "least bugs in code" criteria, the best programming was done 1100ad - 1700ad.
mircea_popescu: well... chicks not having two cunts certainly has made it so we don't have two penises, amirite ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well then that's all i got, because i've never spent considerable enough time with one to say anything cogent.
mircea_popescu: no it didn't. modern mathematics began once they gave up the "mysticism" and "unexpressible" and "obvious" visual/intuitive nonsense and started putting everything in words.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i will use your own body to defeat you! how long did you spent with the box, and how much did you make in that time ?
mircea_popescu: well, more like, "if you can't say it in words you've not understood it"
mircea_popescu: particularly bad example too, quicksort is like seven lines forty words.
mircea_popescu: adlai you're not seriously proposing innovative pagination turns text into "graphical" do you ?
mircea_popescu: it forces people to think, and it simplifies the task of rooting out thoise who haven't. exactly the opposite service of a powerpoint presentation.
mircea_popescu: more like, "x*y field terminal is great for cutting out timewasters"
mircea_popescu: to be fair, i loved the "visual equalizer" in whatever program first played mp3s on 386s, single session. and obviously computers are for pronz.
mircea_popescu: let's move it in a different field. you acquainted with the happenstance that iconoclastic civilisations prospered intellectually whereas iconocladic civilisations failed ?
mircea_popescu: and i think the sort of idiots running around pretending "everything;'s something!11" are doing deaf people a major disfavor.
mircea_popescu: eh, while i can appreciate the theoretical beauty of this "fuck you, i'm a dragon" approach, i do not credit it any. in fact, i think it only exists because the context is of the "fuck you, dragons" nature.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "my ms dos fixedsys display is graphical"
mircea_popescu: (In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not otherwise affect the remainder of the sentence.)
mircea_popescu: obviously it's an adjunct. everything can be an adjunct to speech.
mircea_popescu: an' i'm tellin' you, "visual" is not a complete language.
mircea_popescu: well actually, yeah, this is what i do :) my fucking thesis was on the limits of knowledge.
mircea_popescu: and if you can't do that, which is the absolute bare minimum of communication, you can't do anything meaningful.,
mircea_popescu: only because there's a textual context to generously support it.
mircea_popescu: a curve does not meaningfully stand for a set of curves like a word stands for a set of words.
mircea_popescu: this is where anything but text fails : no abstractive power.
mircea_popescu: i think the bitrate approach misses the fundamental point here. you'll never beat the bitrate of "put out random pixels" with any bitmap approach.
mircea_popescu: that somehow didn't emerge. so wait, reverse engineer the retina ? in what sense ? it's pretty well described as is
mircea_popescu: that said, feel free to draw out your love and other emotions, preferably directly on the object, with sticky matter.
mircea_popescu: the day someone makes derp++ and starts iterating splines in a cube conditional, we can revisit this.
mircea_popescu: 27 fucking letters and be happy if you get case next version.
mircea_popescu: not to mention i still distinctly recall my cat-ish mistrust as an 8 yo boy confronted with "special symbols". why exactly something like $ is even needed, or useful, is imo still open to debate.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, it is unclear to me that the notion of "fonts" adds any value whatsoever and is anything other than shitgnomism, 80s flavour.
mircea_popescu: it's so apt that, you know that ilf of ilf & petrov fame also was an initialism ?
mircea_popescu: the world was apparently content to wait fifty fucking years for us to come along