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Comment by abelhabel

I found this interesting.

"if a physical law can be as complicated as the experimental data that it explains, then there is always a law, and the notion of “law” becomes meaningless! Understanding is compression! A theory as complicated as the data it explains is NO theory"...

Then saying that program -> computing -> output has to follow from small to large in size, ie the program is the algorithmic information and the output is the data it explains.

Looking at modern day web development we are seeing the opposite, where the program is many times bigger than it's output, suggesting to me that the modern frameworks do not come from any sound theory.

parent abelhabel 9 years ago

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