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As is so often SOP with the truth, there’s a cruel paradox involved. It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it—and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.
String Theory
David Foster Wallace
Robustly getting a machine to react based on its surrounding environment remains a complex problem, even if the machine is physically capable of doing it.
Where Are the Robotic Bricklayers? - By Brian Potter
constructionphysics.substack.com
Centers and generative process:
Any structure is some elements in a relationship (in a context). The center is a way of describing those elements that are more coherent, more salient, more related to each other.
Generative process is step by step adaptation.
Christopher Alexander: A Primer
Ryan Singer
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