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It's an approach to reasoning and thinking used in philosophy and science [1]. It could be applied to any concept. The author's articles and those by Bartosz Ci
by owlglass 4y ago
It's an approach to reasoning and thinking used in philosophy and science [1]. It could be applied to any concept. The author's articles and those by Bartosz Ciechanowski [2] are good examples of first-principles explanations of various concepts.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle
[2] https://ciechanow.ski/ https://ciechanow.ski/
- macintux 4y agoI once gave a talk about Erlang starting with the core idea that = is an assertion of truth and building (most of) the rest of the language from that. Found it a very rewarding approach.
- schoen 4y agoIs there any way for the public to see this talk or learn more about this?
- macintux 4y agoHere’s the Midwest.io talk. Shame the conference didn’t last. https://youtu.be/E18shi1qIHU https://youtu.be/E18shi1qIHU
- benatkin 4y agoThat's why I don't like it when languages use = for key: value pairs like TOML. There seems to be a big meaning of "=" that people forget.
- KasparEtter 4y agoI chose the name of the blog to mean analytic, reductionist reasoning (in contrast to associative, vague reasoning). In the meantime, I also like the following framing, which I wanted to add to the front page of the blog for some time: https://www.cold-takes.com/minimal-trust-investigations/ https://www.cold-takes.com/minimal-trust-investigations/