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Google doesn't recognise "residue of experience" as part of a familiar quote, but the phrase itself seems to be rather frequent, at least in academese: https:/
by JadeNB 8y ago
Google doesn't recognise "residue of experience" as part of a familiar quote, but the phrase itself seems to be rather frequent, at least in academese: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22residue+of+experience%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22residue+of+experience%22.
- amch 8y agoFunnily enough, as of this writing, the top ranked google result (at least for me) is this post.
- curiousgal 8y agoI'm so meta even this acronym
- techbio 8y agoWhile Redditisms leaking into HN comments are usually downvoted, I actually got this for the first time just now. Probably because while on HN I wear my thinking cap, and on Reddit I read mainly for amusement and don't spend the time to look as closely. So a qualified thank you, that was clever.
- sp332 8y agoIt was popularized by Douglas Hofstadter, the guy who wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter