Show Notes
<p>Morgan is in the final crunch of finishing her dissertation draft, so
Chris's brother Steve Webber joins us for a special "nerdout":
analyzing the dual nature of fuzzy vs crisp systems! From physics to
biology, from programming languages to human languages, the duality of
fuzzy and crisp is everpresent.</p><p>Yes, this really is what Chris and Steve sound like whenever they get
together...</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</a>
(but <a href="https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/">this version looks better on the web</a>)
and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CABEA24090">1980s lectures</a>
(also on <a href="https://archive.org/details/SICP_4_ipod">Internet Archive</a>
but the YouTube uploads are more recent and higher quality)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)">Lisp</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)">Scheme</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus">Lambda Calculus</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer-fourth-edition">The Little Schemer</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc">The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written</a> by William Byrd</p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf">Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual</a>, which also now has a lovely <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lisp-15-programmers-manual">reprint for sale</a> (see Appendix B for Lisp in Lisp, albeit in m-expression rather than s-expression format... m-expressions never took on)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-good/9780596517748/">Javascript: The Good Parts</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences">The narcissism of small differences</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird">To Mock a Mockingbird</a>
by Raymond Smullyan. Also, presumably not the link Steve had shared with Chris
back in the day (but maybe it was?) but here's a more math'y breakdown of
some of the ideas, <a href="https://dkeenan.com/Lambda/">To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(mathematics)">Duality (mathematics)</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://techdifferences.com/difference-between-fuzzy-set-and-crisp-set.html">Fuzzy and crisp sets</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_and_scruffies">Neats and scruffies</a>
(see also our <a href="https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/2-machine-learning-impact.html">previous episode about machine learning</a>)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vHnM8WPvU">Alan Watts' lecture on "prickles and goo"</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation">Carcinisation</a>
(convergent evolution on "crabs")</p></li><li><p><a href="https://wiki.c2.com/?JoelMosesOnAplAndLisp">Lisp vs APL: "Mud and Diamonds"</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://guix.gnu.org/">Guix</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://mumble.net/~jar/">Jonathan Rees's website</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban">Lojban</a>,
and here's a pretty good <a href="https://mw.lojban.org/papri/la_karda">Lojban intro</a></p></li><li><p>The infamous Lojban <a href="https://mw.lojban.org/papri/jbocre:_Bear_goo">"bear goo"</a>
debate</p></li></ul>