critical code studies in analysis of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
category: code [glöplog]
Recently went to a book launch event for
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/10-print-chr2055rnd1-goto-10-0
(yes, that really is the title) by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample and Noah Vawter
which is in the area of a rather new discipline called Critical Code Studies (some related interesting tidbits here: http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/)
Apparently there's a whole discipline called Software Studies http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/software-studies . . . .
To clarify, it is a subdiscipline of Cultural Studies
"When I approach programmers about interpreting their code, a wry smile loads on their lips. After a bit of discussion, it becomes clear that they expect me to read their code as a high school English class would read a poem by Keats or a sonnet by Shakespeare. The smile also reveals their own ambivalence about their code.
[ . . . . ]
Interpretation, at the start of the twenty-first century, is not that search for what the author secretly meant, that bizarre scavenger hunt that computer scientists probably recall from their Ms. Finetooths midterm essay questions. Instead, it is the systematic exploration of semiotic objects in order to explore culture and systems of meaning. "
from
http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2011/06/19/what-does-it-mean-to-interpret-code/#5
Fascinating.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/10-print-chr2055rnd1-goto-10-0
(yes, that really is the title) by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample and Noah Vawter
which is in the area of a rather new discipline called Critical Code Studies (some related interesting tidbits here: http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/)
Apparently there's a whole discipline called Software Studies http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/software-studies . . . .
To clarify, it is a subdiscipline of Cultural Studies
"When I approach programmers about interpreting their code, a wry smile loads on their lips. After a bit of discussion, it becomes clear that they expect me to read their code as a high school English class would read a poem by Keats or a sonnet by Shakespeare. The smile also reveals their own ambivalence about their code.
[ . . . . ]
Interpretation, at the start of the twenty-first century, is not that search for what the author secretly meant, that bizarre scavenger hunt that computer scientists probably recall from their Ms. Finetooths midterm essay questions. Instead, it is the systematic exploration of semiotic objects in order to explore culture and systems of meaning. "
from
http://criticalcodestudies.com/wordpress/2011/06/19/what-does-it-mean-to-interpret-code/#5
Fascinating.
oh yeah, and rv6502 gets a shoutout, because related to this book is two of the authors' 32 byte C64 demo, Thread
for more info, see
http://nickm.com/post/2010/06/party-weaving-thread/
for more info, see
http://nickm.com/post/2010/06/party-weaving-thread/
I just noticed on slashdot that the book is freely available to download from http://10print.org/
I met an allegedly 16-year-old at Facebook who claims that he has an IQ of 222 and has solved the P vs. NP problem. His "solution": P = NP if N = 1! LOL
I am still not getting an idea of what CCS is yet but it sounds interesting. Hopefully I will get it when I read the book. Thanks for the free download.
N vs NP is funny when you have review board that cant even disprove the proposed solutions.
"Neil Immerman, an expert in the field, had pointed out two possibly fatal errors in the proof"
In other words.. "we believe the solution is not valid, but we cant prove its not valid..."
What a mess academia can be.
"Neil Immerman, an expert in the field, had pointed out two possibly fatal errors in the proof"
In other words.. "we believe the solution is not valid, but we cant prove its not valid..."
What a mess academia can be.
this is the only published book I know that actually mentions pouet :)
