“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
Monday, June 30, 2025
Physical vs Mathematical vs Social Linguistical Systems
Language is informal and relationally based. The rules/ syntax are flexible, and often deliberately misused in misleading ways. Humans are the falsifiers par excellence (Nietzsche).
The CCP is concerned that the PLA doesn’t understand the intensity of modern combat. In a recent article for the PLA’s official newspaper, the People’s Liberation Army Daily (解放军报), Chen Yongyi and Liu Yuanyuan write that ‘during times of war troops are engaged in battle with the enemy in sight’. They argue that being in proximity to the enemy helps PLA personnel become aware of both the responsibilities and challenges of the modern battlespace. While some generals might bemoan a lack of combat experience, finding a way to address the problem short of outright war would allow the PLA to further narrow the gap with the US military.
Who said??? ;-p
ReplyDelete"Those who know better"? ;-)
I. As one who actually worked with formal systems -- programming langs. Know that they formal only in theory.
ReplyDeleteAnd I has give you example of Galua -- how he created his "formal" system on the whim. And all prominent mathematicians follow his example since.
Language is informal and relationally based. The rules/ syntax are flexible, and often deliberately misused in misleading ways. Humans are the falsifiers par excellence (Nietzsche).
DeleteSyntax... is just a coincedence.
DeleteDidn't you saw that on the net? Texts where letters in a word mangled still readable.
Good error correction algorithms.... like with those barcodes. At NASA we used Reed-Solomon encoding. Formal System?
DeleteJust a happen-stances...
DeleteReally. Just think about -- do it REALLY correct any error? ;-)
DeleteBeats a Google chatbot...
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ReplyDeleteThe CCP is concerned that the PLA doesn’t understand the intensity of modern combat. In a recent article for the PLA’s official newspaper, the People’s Liberation Army Daily (解放军报), Chen Yongyi and Liu Yuanyuan write that ‘during times of war troops are engaged in battle with the enemy in sight’. They argue that being in proximity to the enemy helps PLA personnel become aware of both the responsibilities and challenges of the modern battlespace. While some generals might bemoan a lack of combat experience, finding a way to address the problem short of outright war would allow the PLA to further narrow the gap with the US military.
ReplyDeleteIt is a puzzlement.
DeleteTo you?
DeleteWell, in your case it more like Future Shock
Then we'll both learn some hard lessons.
DeleteFuture is foreign country.™
DeleteFor each of us.
Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave. All Alvin & Heidi Toffler books.
DeleteI have a dream...
Pu them in the "books I read in the 80s" bucket.
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