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On Food and Coding
Personal blog · onfoodandcoding.blogspot.fiprogrammingwriting
On Food and Coding is a personal blog at onfoodandcoding.blogspot.fi about programming and writing. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Completely Reliable Conclusions”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its argument that mathematics is a language in its own right rather than a representation of something real. One commenter says it makes the point better than they could.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
(Making, learning, hacking.)
Most-linked posts?
- Completely Reliable Conclusions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-24
What Hacker News says?
Lately I've developed a distaste for thinking of math as simply a representation of "something real", I'd rather think of it as a language in its own right. I'll just link this here because it explains the point way better than I could: http://onfoodandcoding.blogspot.fi/2013/04/completely-reliab... (the first 5'ish paragraphs especially)
Comment linking /2013/04/completely-reliable-conclusions.html
on “Math without beauty or truth”Submitted Completely reliable conclusions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Completely Reliable Conclusions as a story · 1 points
HN discussion