Mise en abyme • Hacker News Board

taneq wrote: post #6

Oh great, now we're gonna have language hipsters referring to their functions as "mise en abyme" instead of just saying "recursive" like we've been doing for the past 40 years.

Everything looks better in French.

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Post by cel1ne » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:07 AM UTC

inopinatus wrote: post #10

mirimir wrote: post #2

I'm reminded of I Am a Strange Loop and Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. About recursiveness being at the heart of consciousness.

There's a thesis that all particles are information, and all information is functional, thus perception is merely the lazy evaluation of the universe.

How does quantum mechanic's randomness come into play here?

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Post by creshal » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:10 AM UTC

thatfrenchguy wrote: post #13

taneq wrote: post #6

Oh great, now we're gonna have language hipsters referring to their functions as "mise en abyme" instead of just saying "recursive" like we've been doing for the past 40 years.

Everything looks better in French.

Great, it's the 19th century all over again.

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Post by Angostura » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:12 AM UTC

I rather enjoy these little random nuggets that get posted to Hacker News.

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Post by pygy_ » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:15 AM UTC

DaWeasel wrote: post #3

Did I miss something ?

Récursion as a literary device is intellectually stimulating, hence on topic. Furthermore, the y combinator is also about recursion.

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Post by maelito » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:25 AM UTC

Also read this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12005869

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Post by t_fatus » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:31 AM UTC

thatfrenchguy wrote: post #13

taneq wrote: post #6

Oh great, now we're gonna have language hipsters referring to their functions as "mise en abyme" instead of just saying "recursive" like we've been doing for the past 40 years.

Everything looks better in French.

Everything looks better en Français

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Post by kalden_ » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 9:31 AM UTC

return0 wrote: post #4

Someone should put a screenshot of the article in that article.

Already the case on the French wiki (and it was on the top of the article for a long time). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mise_en_abyme.jpg?us...