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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695 cf. https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Ab
by starkparker 3y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695
cf. https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:About https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:About
> Wikifunctions is a Wikimedia project for everyone to collaboratively create and maintain a library of code functions to support the Wikimedia projects and beyond, for everyone to call and re-use in the world's natural and programming languages.
It's a support project of the Abstract Wikipedia initiative to model facts with data not specific to any spoken or written language, building on and supporting things like Wikidata.
- smsm42 3y agoIt sounds as some kind of anti-Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - that we can express things entirely without using any language at all. I am very curious how it turns out - while I think Wikidata is taking it as far as it practically possible, and Abstract Wikipedia takes it way further - I'd be very curious to know how it turns out. Sometimes people just need to do things that look crazy to see what happens.
- jmopp 3y agoYou don't need language to do maths — the Greeks went pretty far with geometry alone. While language makes it easier to understand things, it's not strictly necessary: you can learn a lot from mimicry, for instance.
- dang 3y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: Welcome to Wikifunctions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927695 - July 2023 (163 comments)
- account42 3y agoI don't really understand how this is different from https://rosettacode.org/ https://rosettacode.org/