new video! 🎉

Episode 2 of The Physics of Software is up -- this one's about entropy, and why your codebase decays even when nobody does anything wrong.

Spoiler: it's the Second Law of Thermodynamics. not as a metaphor. as an actual thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAMqzFqNT0E

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@andnull

I think you should have a look at optics and namely prisms, (rather than lenses)... in #functionalprogramming

probably a good example of refractive computation

I consider simple pattern matching as an instance of optics behaviour, but I have not spent the time to be fully mathematically correct here: I hope it is so, but I could not provide the correct definitions prooving me right, right now

I like the metaphore of branching as difraction

EDIT: I have to rework the difference refraction/diffraction in physics

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