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Dualism in Computer Science
The word “meta” is more popular than ever – especially among computer scientists. I’m convinced that the use of this word is a subtle indication of deeply held and sometimes problematic world view.
The problem is the idea implicit to “meta” that the direction of “meta” is “more abstract”.
This is often tied to the idea […]
Posted by Adam Pingel @ June 10th, 2007 under Culture, Science, Software Engineering.
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Ocular Centrism
Last year a friend of a friend brought up the phrase “Ocular Centrism” after some semi-serious banter about the prevalence of visual metaphors in our language. Turns out I wasn’t the first person to notice this. A surfing session several months ago revealed how deeply that idea tied together a lot of my […]
Posted by Adam Pingel @ March 19th, 2007 under Culture, Software Engineering.
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Post Secret; Stay of Execution
A random web search brought me to Stay of Execution.
One of the posts linked to Post Secret — a site which catalogues the secrets written on postcards and sent to the blog author’s address.
Posted by Adam Pingel @ October 22nd, 2006 under Culture.
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