{"id":177,"date":"2002-12-04T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2002-12-05T03:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=177"},"modified":"2002-12-04T23:01:36","modified_gmt":"2002-12-05T03:01:36","slug":"godel-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/04\/godel-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00f6del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465026567\/cephasnet-20\/\">&#8220;G\u00f6del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid&#8221;<\/a>, couple nuggets. In Chapter V, Recursive Structures and Processes, Hofstader talks about modularization, loops, and procedures. Naturally, you&#8217;d think he was writing about computer programming, and to some extent he does.  There&#8217;s a discussion about the difference between <i>bounded loops<\/i> (loops which have a known maximum number of steps) and <i>free loops<\/i> (loops whose boundary is not known) and nested loops (loops within loops).  He diverts to the non-programming trail for a short time to talk about how loops (in the theoretical sense) exist in knitting and crocheting (&#8220;&#8230; very small loops are repeated several times in larger loops, which in turn are carried out repeatedly&#8230;&#8221;) and how loops reside in music (&#8220;&#8230; when a scale is played several times in a row, perhaps displaced in pitch each new time.&#8221;).  <\/p>\n<p>This book is fascinating in that I&#8217;m finding so computer science fundamentals explained in rich detail and yet I&#8217;m not reading a book on computer science.  And maybe that&#8217;s one of the points of the book; at its&#8217; core computer science is no different than music. Both are sets of symbols that we&#8217;ve assigned meaning too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still reading &#8220;G\u00f6del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid&#8221;, couple nuggets. In Chapter V, Recursive Structures and Processes, Hofstader talks about modularization, loops, and procedures. Naturally, you&#8217;d think he was writing about computer programming, and to some extent he does. There&#8217;s a discussion about the difference between bounded loops (loops which have a known maximum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/04\/godel-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">G\u00f6del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}