Journal, Feb 2024

The feeling one gets is of lifting a Problem up into the mind, struggling with it until decisions come, then, putting those decisions down in place of the problem. Only then can one relax. This cycle repeats. It's what Ward calls Grappling. "I feel it when I Program, With Cards or at a Machine."

Put decisions down in place of the problem. I tend to understand this literally: The Place where there was previously a Problem now contains a Decision in the Form of a Program. We substituted a problem (A) with a program (C). [⇒ Substitution]

DOT FROM two-level-diagram

Silence punctuates meetings – Half-Halt as a comma (,) vs. full stop (.)

Der Kasseler Soziologie Heinz Bude bezeichnete die Vorgänge bei einer Veranstaltung der Universität Kassel als "die größte Beschädigung der Marke documenta seit ihrem Bestehen". Das sei ein Fazit, das man schon jetzt ziehen könne, sagte der Gründungsdirektor des documenta-Institutes. tagesschau.de

refactor(gtCodeFor:): view: #gtExploreFor: instead of #gtTreeFor:

Ward via matrix DM: Dan wrote the prototype Smalltalk interpreter on both sides of one page of paper, thus meeting Alan's challenge. (I might have been getting an abbreviated story as I heard it second hand.)

This code snippet is looking for its place.

"retrieval according to the matching paradigm" ⇒ Path

Overcoming the noise in neural computing science doi