Re:The Hungry Programmer
by tikhonj on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @05:09PM
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Approximation can't really be transitive. Otherwise, $1 is "like" $1.01 which is "like" $1.02 ... which is "like" $100,000,000 ;)
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Maybe we could allow the quality of the approximation to degrade: if 'hacking is like painting' and 'hacking is like eating' are ||hacking - painting|| < \eps and ||hacking - eating|| < \eps respectively, then ||painting - eating|| < 2 \eps. So painting is at least half as like eating as painting is like hacking.