LessWrong’s favourite analogy — the map and the territory.
Ah, that explains so much about this place.
Random not-so-random factoid. One of Wittgenstein’s students was a woman named Margaret Masterman. She became a very distinguished British academic and was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. I believe she was the first to program a computer to generate haiku, back in the late 60s. Yes, primitive by today’s standards. But the first.
Ah, that explains so much about this place.
Random not-so-random factoid. One of Wittgenstein’s students was a woman named Margaret Masterman. She became a very distinguished British academic and was a pioneer in the field of computational linguistics. I believe she was the first to program a computer to generate haiku, back in the late 60s. Yes, primitive by today’s standards. But the first.