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Computational Fairy Tales (computationaltales.blogspot.com)
58 points by ColinWright on Aug 7, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Some of these stories are really enjoyable. They remind me of the tales told by the Young Lady's Primer in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age". I wonder how plausible it would be to write an entire book with a long and colourful tale of wizards and dragons, only to end, "and now you're a computer scientist!"


My thoughts immediately went to Stephenson. Quite a good job by the blogger. Nell, in the primer, is able to eventually delve deeper into more technically dry and intensive material. In your FAQ you mention the site is only meant to cover topics at a higher level of understanding. In the long term it would be interesting (although undoubtedly difficult, and perhaps even against the writer's intent) to try this story telling at a more technically intense level.


Nothing about recursion? :(.

"Gödel, Escher, Bach" has some nice stories about it.




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