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Collection of quotes on notation design & how it affects thought.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 11 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-07-22 · latest 2026-07-29

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  1. …is something I refer to again and again. It's given me a lot of insights and ideas. I recommend it! https://github.com/kai-qu/notation It references Iverson, but is very anecdotal and wider ranging.
    comment by karaterobot · 2025-04-25 · in Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
  2. Related: https://github.com/hypotext/notation
    comment by alexpetralia · 2021-10-23 · in Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf]
  3. …tricks. And it worked! We actually found juggling tricks that no one had ever done before. ( https://github.com/hypotext/notation ) What's so cool is that you can predict gaps in knowledge by developing a notation to (honestly) describe…
    comment by karaterobot · 2020-12-02 · in Siteswap
  4. Reminds me of these notes: https://github.com/hypotext/notation
    comment by alexpetralia · 2020-11-30 · in Notation as a Tool of Thought
  5. Here is a great set of notes on the topic: https://github.com/hypotext/notation
    comment by alexpetralia · 2018-10-11 · in Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
  6. Fits perfectly with Dana Scott's suggestion "a trend towards the removal of explicit parameters." https://github.com/hypotext/notation#mathematical-notation-p...
    comment by alanbernstein · 2018-08-16 · in Why numbering should start at zero (1982)
  7. this is a pretty cool github repository on notation https://github.com/hypotext/notation
    comment by tosh · 2018-04-16 · in Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf]