Abhijit Mahabal strikes again

Abhijit has been working on a Python FARG framework - something I once wanted to do (OK, granted: something I still want to do, but now he's done it, or started one). It's here on Github.

Research workflow

OK, so I don't nearly have time to write about this post in anything like the detail it deserves, but: he's a CS prof now, he's defined a pretty snazzy-looking approach to organizing research activities, it looks a whole lot like Hofstadter's model of mind, and I want to think a whole lot more about it.

So I'm posting it here, on the off chance I'll run across it again in a few months when I have some free moments. I don't even have time to read it all right now. Argh!

Also, from the same blog, the post that hit HNN: [here]. A good post, but not the one I'm most interested in.

Target domain: Hofstadterian microworlds

Reading through your old tag posts can make you think of things you meant not to forget.

Lest I forget this, though: one of the motivating principles for this pseudocode stuff is that I wanted a reasonable way to express the Lexicon for Magnifi*. So, literally, while I was mentioning them metaphorically back in November, Hofstadterian microworlds really are a target domain. More precisely, I suppose, the Lexicon for expressing them is a target domain. Getting that to mean actual fluid concepts... that will be a big project.