read this a while ago and the artistic quality of "thickness" has become a pretty load-bearing metaphor for me. in short it's: if you ask questions about a piece of art, are there interesting answers? do those answers spark more questions? that's what you get with thick art; it rewards your interest
experimental-history.com
I like 'em thick - by Adam Mastroianni
OR: an apology to my English teachers
![START DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE
* VARIABLES WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES
* YEARS OF PROGRAMMING yet STILL MORE TO CREATE
* Don't want to write code anyway? We have a field for you: It's called THEORY
* "Well typed programs don't go wrong." "Boolean satisfiability is NP-complete." "Every effectively calculable function is computable." — Statements dreamed up by the utterly inspired
LOOK at what computer scientists deserve your Respect for all this time, with all the circuits and computers we built for them
(This is REAL computer science, done by REAL computer scientists):
[graph of the ARPANET] the Internet
[photo of an FPGA] FPGAs
[screenshot of RocqIDE] proof assistants
They have given us beautiful tools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ypsrm6ue6o5xk5kvbdhwtppm/bafkreifb445jln2aytislayvqayzjf5mp76tpcrwiqpdrkwnrypfz3rd4m)
