Exaggerating the Truth

November 8, 2007 – 12:29 pm

If this post was more nuanced—paid more attention to shades of gray—it would be more truthful and more interesting.  It’s still both, though, and occasionally funny as well:

This entire problem space comes down to a single error in the metamathematical approach to computing, which is that the 1930s  metamathematicians were fascinated by the fact that they could represent  any data structure as a function. While this is true, to describe it as  perverse is an insult to perverts.

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