You should really write something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I mean why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, it would keep your writing skills sharp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember back to a large humanities professor\u2019s office. Books, no sign of the shelfs. Probably there was Melville on the desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYour thesis. You actually write quite clearly now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wondering how bad I had started from. I guess that\u2019s why I added the literature major. And now how this story must be told through the dullness of atrophied skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe start with something you are thinking about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As if my ideas make any sense, even to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m thinking lots about encoding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quantum error correction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, not really. More existential. Deep down there is a churning broiling sea of noise and stochastic evolution. None of those lower bits last long, their transient, barely deserving the moniker of bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet I, me, this someday stable collection of memories, computations, behaviors, something that looks like the cold hardness of digital, of one state, seems to emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It can be quite disorienting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See you wrote something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well it was a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You should really write something. I mean why? Well, it would keep your writing skills sharp. I remember back to a large humanities professor\u2019s office. Books, no sign of the shelfs. Probably there was Melville on the desk. \u201cYour thesis. You actually write quite clearly now.\u201d Wondering how bad I had started from. I guess … <\/p>\n