{"id":2954,"date":"2012-11-02T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T23:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2012-10-29T19:43:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:43:57","slug":"recursive-metafunctions-polypolice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/11\/02\/recursive-metafunctions-polypolice\/","title":{"rendered":"Recursive  \u03b2-Metafunctions In the Case of Polypolice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cyberiad\">reading about<\/a> how bogus transmogrification conversion on an oscillating harmonic field of glass bells, with green gig and kerosene lamps for diversion, can be solved by beastly incarceration-concatenation.  I was reminded of how much the great scienxplorers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calvin_and_Hobbes\">Watterson<\/a> and others owe to this cloud of novel scientific inquiry from the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me simultaneously want to immortalize Lem and Kandel in an eternally entangled quantum fringe, and to fire up a Trurlapaucius <a href=\"http:\/\/davidsd.org\/2009\/01\/the-real-theorem-generator-a-context-free-grammar\/\">abstract-generator<\/a> based on snarXiv code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading about how bogus transmogrification conversion on an oscillating harmonic field of glass bells, with green gig and kerosene lamps for diversion, can be solved by beastly incarceration-concatenation. I was reminded of how much the great scienxplorers such as Watterson and others owe to this cloud of novel scientific inquiry from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1657,210,60484,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","category-chain-gang","category-citation-needed","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-LE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}