
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.
Ed Finn
I have just started reading a really interesting discussion about algorithms, language, mathematics and the human-machine interface in Ed Finn’s “What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing” published by MIT Press.
Again, this is a placeholder for what I’m reading rather than my thoughts on what I’m reading. It will expand …