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I think informatics is a much better word to use, right?
Computer Science - there are only two things wrong with it: the word computer and the word science, right? Because it's not about just the computer - it's about patterns of information. And you don't put science in your name if you're a real science.
"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler
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Grateful to have this language back as a first-class citizen in my muscles and my home.
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The more unstable a situation is, the more rapidly it changes, the *less* valuable minute-by-minute reporting is. I don’t know what happened to the hospital in Gaza, but if I wait until the next issue of the *Economist* shows up I will be better informed about it than people who have been rage-refreshing their browser windows for the past several days, and I will have suffered considerably less emotional stress.
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