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I'm not sure that it's premature. We use categories all the time, the time when they fail us seem to be rare in proportion.
by Zababa 5y ago
I'm not sure that it's premature. We use categories all the time, the time when they fail us seem to be rare in proportion.
- dsr_ 5y agoRare but often important. We all work with computers all the time, and so we have a tendency to try to represent the universe in the simplest abstractions that capture the necessary detail for the project we are currently contemplating. When those abstractions fail to capture a necessary detail, it can be due to: - a bad abstraction in the first place - a new use for the representation that we hadn't thought about - insufficient understanding of what we are trying to represent I have seen all three of these situations repeatedly. They are all quite common.