Lying in the grass and staring at the sky through the trees at Patty Smith park this last weekend, I could not help but be reminded how utterly theoryless and without order the whole of it all so evidently is. So much so, that nearly every description one suggests more-or-less appears to have at its core the idea that one should in principle be able to start wherever the modeler suggests and then simply throw enough compute at the problem. That in the limit their special hankering will appear in an moment of illumination. Usually the suggestion comes equipped with more or less efficient models of computation that in the limit are indistinguishable from random coin flipping.
While I can certainly respect spending one's finite time studying the vanishingly small instances of order and otherwise appreciating the nuanced similarity of things, imagining some greater order most magnificent and divine strikes me as nothing short of copium. Of course, we all need ways to spend our days and to relate with others. This weekend Tycho showed me a few of his favorite legos and asked how many constructions I thought could be built from those he displayed in his hand. I am sure my face drained of color before him. Stephen, I cannot help but feel like Isabelle Huppert's Caterine Vauban in the presence your Bernard and Vivian Jaffe.
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