
Lisp, Jazz, Aikido – Three Expressions of a Single Essence - kuwze
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00485
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PetitPrince
Previous discussions on HN:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993330](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993330)

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peatmoss
At various points in my life, I’ve done all three of these things. But I see
no essential nexus between any of them. I mean, if we torture any metaphor
enough we can link anything to anything.

Most human activities of sufficient complexity are a mix of art and science.
All three of these activities are of this sort (neither being purely aesthetic
nor completely reduceable to settled science). But those kinds of pursuits are
common.

I’d gladly recommend aikido, jazz, and lisp to someone, but I’d also happily
recommend judo, rhythm and blues, and smalltalk. Or fly fishing. Or go (the
game or language). Or woodworking. Or... well the list goes on.

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Animats
Right. From the article "My personal life has been revolving around three
major creative activities, of equal importance: programming in Lisp, playing
Jazz music, and practicing Aikido." This is someone who extrapolated their own
life to a universal.

Next!

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xarill
Why on earth would someone publish a paper like that? This is absolutely
rubbish. A guy wanted to show the world how special he is because he writes
Lisp, listens to jazz, and practices Aikido, and wrote a whole meaningless
paper for that. I thought that papers where examined by some committee before
publication, and you need to have serious work done to get your research
published. This lookes more like an article on some lifestyle magazine or
personal blog, rather than a scientific paper.

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SOLAR_FIELDS
This is ArXiV, a place where you can post preprints. Little if any moderation
is done here, even less if you post something outside of the topic of math or
physics. Presence of a paper on here does not mean it has passed peer review
or been published in a reputable journal.

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Wintamute
"Science (what we can explain), and Art (what we can't)"

Er, no. This is a horribly limiting definition of both terms.

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f2f
Neither of which is very effective. Aikido is not a very efficient form of
martial arts, even though it looks good. Jazz is not a popular form of music
even though it sounds good. Lisp is not a popular language even though it
writes good.

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abenedic
I always have a small problem with trying to define art, and relate it to
science. It never seems to go well.

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ballooney
In which Dean Moriarty writes a paper.

