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Veronica

08-Jan10

Fire + GEB + pillow = a very good Friday night.
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Fire + GEB + pillow = a very good Friday night.

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10:00 pm, by nique
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11-Jan10


[Godel’s Incompleteness] Theorem can be likened to a pearl, and the method of proof to an oyster. The pearl is prized for its luster and simplicity; the oyster is a complex living beast whose innards give rise to this mysteriously simple gem.

G.E.B., pg 17.

These sentences alone made me stop reading and stare off to visualize every oyster/pearl pairing I’ve met. What a beautiful description of that feeling you get when you’re working through a nasty problem with a hodgepodge of data, but finally something clicks, it all makes sense…and you’ve found the pearl.

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12:08 am, by nique
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13-Jan10

xkcd, 1/13/10. The mouseover text: The contents of any one panel are dependent on the contents of every panel including itself. The graph of panel dependencies is complete and bidirectional, and each node has a loop. The mouseover text has two hundred and forty-two characters.
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xkcd, 1/13/10.

The mouseover text:

The contents of any one panel are dependent on the contents of every panel including itself. The graph of panel dependencies is complete and bidirectional, and each node has a loop. The mouseover text has two hundred and forty-two characters.
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8:46 am, by nique
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