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Escher's art and computer science

https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/blob/master/blog/escher.md
54•signa11•2d ago

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kleiba•13h ago
Geez, could the writing breathe any more full-of-oneselfness?
4gotunameagain•12h ago
Equating yourself to a generational genius because you are "an author of a math-rich RDX data format and the `librdx` library" has to be one of the funniest things I've read in a while
mlyle•10h ago
I do feel it's a bit excessively "this is very deep." But I don't think he's equating himself to Escher; I think he's just saying that Escher's work is a good metaphor for the kinds of thoughts he's engaging in right now-- for a shallow pass of much the same purposes that Hofstadter used Escher and Bach.
dented42•8h ago
Agreed I think the criticism of this post is largely undeserved. This kind of thinking is an important stepping stone on any developers journey.
gritzko•11h ago
Author here. Sorry for the quality of the text. It was flushed out in a brief moment of euphoria when a 0.1 feature list was complete. Never edited, never checked for Markdown bugs even. (Please come later)
bdamm•11h ago
It reads like a coming-of-age story for a software developer, without the part that comes next; crushing humility as flaunted self-assumed ideals are obliterated by the need to deliver actual results that real people actually pay for.
megaloblasto•6h ago
MC Escher had a big impact on me growing up. I remember being a kid and looking at some of those famous lithographs and thinking, "oh jeez wow, ok, that's pretty cool".
jochem9•4h ago
This reminds me of a story I read in an Escher biography: Escher would receive letters from mathematicians, saying that his work exactly visualized this or that theory. Escher himself did not understand what they were talking about, as he was not into mathematics. He did of course enjoy that others got so much out of his work.
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