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everything is a function if you contrive hard enough.



Am... am I a function? Oh my god


You know, if you read the article about Systems and Leverage Points[1] that's on the front page right now, it's not hard to see the entire world as a function made up of other functions. And one of those other functions is you.

The real question is, are you a serverless function? If someone likes you and wants more of you, can they infinitely scale you up on-demand, tuespetre? And if so, what will their AWS bill look like next month?

[1] http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...


::world -> world :)


Humans rarely produce identical output from identical input. You're probably more of a nondeterministic heuristic.


> Humans rarely produce identical output from identical input.

Sure they do, the problem is that humans take the state of the universe as input.


no, ur a tool :)


Right. Also everything is a file, an object, etc.


"A fat guy, a watermelon, and a stack of magazines? That's a function!"




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