tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post113721748686769048..comments2024-02-28T14:41:47.313-07:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: Statistics as Poetryambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137260792787938882006-01-14T10:46:00.000-07:002006-01-14T10:46:00.000-07:00You're scared of poetry, I'm frozen in panic anywh...You're scared of poetry, I'm frozen in panic anywhere near 'statistics'--<BR/><BR/>Have Fun!buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137260500419997102006-01-14T10:41:00.000-07:002006-01-14T10:41:00.000-07:00Thanks, all. Maybe it is like reading/performing m...Thanks, all. Maybe it is like reading/performing music (something else I never "got", despite my family being filled with musicians). <BR/><BR/>And based on StY and Syl and Buddy's comments, it looks like maybe the more expert one becomes in something, the <I>less</I> like reading a recipe it becomes. Which kind of makes sense. I imagine that chefs don't read a recipe as the rote series of instructions that I do. Maybe it's poetry to them.<BR/><BR/>I didn't mean to imply that reading poetry was entirely self-referential, only that it seems to me to lie somewhere between prose and the Rorschach. But then, I've already admitted that I don't really get it, so maybe I'm just wrong.<BR/><BR/>In any case, thanks for all your thoughts. I've gotta go.<BR/><BR/>My book is here. <BR/><BR/>8-)Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13849696277722291312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137258439142689652006-01-14T10:07:00.000-07:002006-01-14T10:07:00.000-07:00In the end, if it helps you understand the place y...In the end, if it helps you understand the place you are in, you might call it poetry.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137255676086716352006-01-14T09:21:00.000-07:002006-01-14T09:21:00.000-07:00Poetry removes the veil and illuminates the world ...Poetry removes the veil and illuminates the world behind the veil. And, it is not just a question of braking open the rattle to see what makes it rattle when you shake it. Nor is poetry an inkblot test, which is wholly self-referential. <BR/><BR/>Consider this, science recognizes that babies are made with a sperm fertilizing an egg; this recognition doesn't diminish the miracle of birth. Poetry allows you to appreciate the "science" of birth, and the miracle - at the same time.<BR/> <BR/>In your case, statistics shows you wholly logical and systematic patterns at the same time illuminating a remarkable beauty. In some ways like birth, and certainly poetic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137248589051719322006-01-14T07:23:00.000-07:002006-01-14T07:23:00.000-07:00And chess--one day it's all trenchwork, the next d...And chess--one day it's all trenchwork, the next day the vectors light up like neon.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137233858902829052006-01-14T03:17:00.000-07:002006-01-14T03:17:00.000-07:00Interesting juxtaposition. I agree with StY re mus...Interesting juxtaposition. I agree with StY re music. <BR/><BR/>I've got to admit that when I was first programming and given a humungous piece of source code I had to make changes in, I'd pour over it and try to 'gestalt it', as I called it. I'd try to understand it in one go, would fail, then go on to analyze it in the normal way.<BR/><BR/>It took me a while before I could look at the source and see exactly what was happening--the flow, the tests, the inputs--without studying it.<BR/><BR/>But the strange thing is that it happened overnight. One day I went to work, looked at a new program, and knew exactly what it was doing.<BR/><BR/>And that type of thing happens in playing music too. Some people think you have to be able to play all the notes first before you can play with a musician's touch. Not true. Even from the beginning of learning any specific instrument, you can play and express the music. And one day it all comes together.<BR/><BR/>I don't think I'd even attempt that with statitistics though! LOLSylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069871911665125873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137222788717928052006-01-14T00:13:00.000-07:002006-01-14T00:13:00.000-07:00Hmmm. Maybe more like reading/performing music: t...Hmmm. Maybe more like reading/performing music: the sense of things "fitting together", the way it turns from pretty arbitrary written symbols and becomes a "structure."<BR/><BR/>At least for me.Charlie Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586506407851173416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137220312285028762006-01-13T23:31:00.000-07:002006-01-13T23:31:00.000-07:00buddy:Must be the beer.buddy:<BR/><BR/>Must be the beer.Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13849696277722291312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1137219081580901102006-01-13T23:11:00.000-07:002006-01-13T23:11:00.000-07:00I don't know, Morgan--your paen to the mind is pre...I don't know, Morgan--your paen to the mind is pretty dadgum poetic.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.com