COME FRIENDLY BOMB: Three Apocalyptic Vignettes on the Death of Poetry as Predicted By the Wizened Astrologers of the Washington Post →
i.
I’ve heard there’s an abstract force
That’s incredibly attracted to me.
Jonny left home with his oni mask on.
Do you know any facts about romantic vapors.
Cars crashing into one another
Blue gas
I read
“Green Conceptual Bodies”
on the subway and
on the beach.
ii.I…
“Blood for language”
The λ-calculus is, at heart, a simple notation for functions and application. The main ideas are applying a function to an argument and forming functions by abstraction. The syntax of basic λ-calculus is quite sparse, making it an elegant, focused notation for representing functions. Functions and arguments are on a par with one another. The result is an intensional theory of functions as rules of computation, contrasting with the traditional extensional approach one of function as a set of pairs of a certain kind. Despite its sparse syntax, the expressiveness and flexibility of the λ-calculus make it a cornucopia of logic and mathematics. This entry develops some of the central highlights of the field and prepares the reader for further study of the subject and its applications in philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and logic.
Alama, Jesse, “The Lambda Calculus”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
via David A Edwards
(via isomorphismes)
SUPER THANKS TO THE CUTTHROATS FOR KEEPING THIS TRADITION ALIVE AND FUN AS FUCK!!
