Thanks for the follow-up!
I haven't read Hostadter or the other's arguments, but this comment got me thinking. If the incompleteness theorem is about the limitations of an axiomatic system, why wouldn't it apply to rational thought. If (and it's…
> Just because you can create a function to return a row of Pascal's triangle doesn't mean you're a great programmer but if you can't, it almost certainly means you aren't. It's a negative signal filter, nothing…
I took the algorithms class at UCSD a few years ago from Sanjay Dasgupta, one of the authors of that book. At the time the book wasn't finished but we used a draft as the lecture notes. One of the best classes I took. I…
Thanks for the follow-up!
I haven't read Hostadter or the other's arguments, but this comment got me thinking. If the incompleteness theorem is about the limitations of an axiomatic system, why wouldn't it apply to rational thought. If (and it's…
> Just because you can create a function to return a row of Pascal's triangle doesn't mean you're a great programmer but if you can't, it almost certainly means you aren't. It's a negative signal filter, nothing…
I took the algorithms class at UCSD a few years ago from Sanjay Dasgupta, one of the authors of that book. At the time the book wasn't finished but we used a draft as the lecture notes. One of the best classes I took. I…