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At various points in my life, I’ve done all three of these things. But I see no essential nexus between any of them. I mean, if we torture any metaphor enough w
by peatmoss 8y ago
At various points in my life, I’ve done all three of these things. But I see no essential nexus between any of them. I mean, if we torture any metaphor enough we can link anything to anything.
Most human activities of sufficient complexity are a mix of art and science. All three of these activities are of this sort (neither being purely aesthetic nor completely reduceable to settled science). But those kinds of pursuits are common.
I’d gladly recommend aikido, jazz, and lisp to someone, but I’d also happily recommend judo, rhythm and blues, and smalltalk. Or fly fishing. Or go (the game or language). Or woodworking. Or... well the list goes on.
- mathattack 8y agoI concur. It’s a stretch. And you could also stretch to any other “purist” activity.
- minikomi 8y agoGo, go and go-go dancing
- Animats 8y agoRight. From the article "My personal life has been revolving around three major creative activities, of equal importance: programming in Lisp, playing Jazz music, and practicing Aikido." This is someone who extrapolated their own life to a universal. Next!
- deltron3030 8y agoI think what he means is a certain "frestyle potential" of those activities, basically creating complexity based on a limited set of rules, rules you make up yourself, which then work in tandem with the procedural aspects of the activity and determine the limits of complexity. While this is true for many real world activities, Lisp seems to be an outlier there, because most other programming languages don't allow you to change the underlying rules.