Angus Croll
blog.anguscroll.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Angus Croll writes about JavaScript and language, including parodies of famous authors writing code and essays on punctuation and reading.
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- 1If Kerouac wrote JavaScript3 people · 69 points · first shared 2013 · 9 comments on HN
- 2If Edgar Allan Poe wrote JavaScript3 people · 16 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 3The Oxford Comma and The Internet2 people · 80 points · first shared 2013 · 55 comments on HN
- 4How to Read a Book2 people · 15 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 5Tupac does JavaScript2 people · 8 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Macbeth laments using a callback instead of a promise2 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7Animals writing JavaScript1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
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runarberg · 2026-02-09
I haven’t seen that theorem, but I believe it (and it kind of makes sense actually). If proven it is certainly a nice one.
There are so many functions that we know is impossible to even write down, let alone calculate, analytically. In fact the number of real valued functions we can write down and compute analytically is infinitesimal compared to all real valued functions. It is nice to know that there exists a method to approximate them with an arbitrarily small error. If we really need to compute a certain function, knowing we can always approximate the value with a neural network, is good actually.
However most human tasks are not computing real valued functions, programming to compute a real valued function actually reminds me of when Jack Kerouac wrote JavaScript[1]. He wrote an entire program just to find the factorial of 43. “If you want the factorial of another number, you’ll need to rewrite it.”
1: http://blog.anguscroll.com/if-kerouac-wrote-javascript/