todo

format

• add index
• put names of sections in the \ref{} part
• put “listing” as a a prefix for all \ref{} (maybe just global search and replace)

conclusion

• [ ] add a note concluding on code generation via LLMs

chap 4 - programming

nick notes

• rewrite intro of chap once the whole thing is re-read -> semantic compression and spatial navigation, expression and execution

• in the scales part, add that the structure/syntax/vocab framework is the same as dijkstra in “the humble programmer”, quoted in http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/2/000698/000698.html

• on esolangs, add http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/2/000698/000698.html

• case studies

  • i should definitely have a more comparative approach: multiple code-bases, with aesthetics which are tied to LANGUAGE, COMMUNITY and PROBLEM (question of the idiomatic). this is better than having one case study after another, completely discontinued.
  • find similar problems in different programs, see how they deal with it
  • find specific cases where the cognitive load is high
  • again, DO IT IN PARALLEL as a comparative studies.

programming languages

styles

• [ ] add to the idiosyncracies this index of language design http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/
• [ ] gefen wants more on the style part, i agree

functions

• in the case of list comprehension in Python, it is both a technical and social environment
• [ ] re-quote hayles a\nd her regime of computation (surface, depth, etc.) when i also talk about paloque berges et. al.
• [ ] at this point i need to synthesize. rather work on connections and disconnections between the social and the functional?

chap 3 - beauty

aesthetics

• mention that knowledge influences how we perceive things (brandy, mathematical beauty)
• from sy brand talk, gabrielle starr, feeling beauty: the neuroaesthetics of the experience: “Aesthetic response enables the comparison and integration of novel kinds of reward in a process that opens possibilities for new knowledge, or new ways of negotiating the world. The perceptions, images, and emotions we find through our experience of poetry, painting and music put ideas and events into relation with one another that would rarely, if ever, be possible outside the arts.”

literature

• In literature, include rousset: forme et signification
• remove god and xml example?

architecture

• add more code examples (check the architecture of open source applications? redis?)

mathematics

• mathematics: add a discussion of dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm?
• add knuth on dijkstra, simple program, complex proof (knuth, simple, 1990)
• write a section conclusion for mathematics altogether

chap 2 - understanding

• [ ] recs from guido, neuropsychologists who might be interested: stanislas dehaene and christophe paillier

chap 1 - ideals

• [ ] add a subsubsec on verbosity?

introduction