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by dtjohnnymonkey 489 days ago
Came here to see if I was just imagining things. Thanks for confirming!
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Glad I wasn’t the only one who saw the reference! Now I just need a version that ties in M.C. Escher’s impossible staircases with infinite loops.
My mind was boggling over a JMW Turner connection to Hofstadter!? Guess I don't know CS ..
I was really excited to see how a 19th-century landscape painter was connected with one of the best NBA players of the 1980s and an Ancient Greek mathematician. Not what I got, but the actual subject is still pretty interesting.