TP or NP? Trial ballon goes up

[Monte Davis]

Ian Livingston sez:



Algebra just makes no sense. I stand with Laurie Anderson on the principle
that x=x, not y base 8 times z to the minus fourth power. Efforts to
crystallize experience, which is fluid and non-repeating, are purely
mystical and have little real meaning. The results of "progress" based on
changing reality into something else have been, well, catastrophic, to
euphemize the result.

 

This sounds like engineers I've heard fuming about their frustrations in
English class:  "What was all that 'symbolism' crap about? Why can't writers
just say what they MEAN instead of going on about albatrosses and  white
elephants?"

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