I'm Drowning in My Own Sh*t Here

I am trying to resurrect my work I did in Bolivia on using Standard ML to dynamically specify and compile its own basis library functions. Part of this involves 15,000 lines of auto-generated code. I was reading David MacQueen's story about Luca Cardelli and the Early Evolution of ML where he writes "Luca called his compiler versions “Poses” adopting a terminology from dance."

I wish I had kept a copy of an e-mail I once sent, about twenty years ago now, to the FOM list replying to John McCarthy's post about communicating with extra-terrestrial aliens using mathematics. It was about abstract representations of mathematics, and what we could reasonably expect the aliens to understand about our mathematics (see Sci-Movie Movie - UFO (2018)). I thought it would look like a wild dance, the sort of thing you'd see if an alien landed on your lawn and did a wild dance in front of you. Martin Davis (whose parents were from Łódź, Poland, I have just discovered) rejected it on account of not having sufficient "foundational content". Well, we're still working that, Martin! See Numberphile - Sophie Maclean on the Catalan Numbers.

Inland Empire - A Little Boy Went Out to Play, ...

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It's supposed to make perfect sense. David Lynch in 2006:

I can explain the Rabbit in pink doing the ironing, ... I don't know whether that man from the Daily Telegraph is still interested though.

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Norman Wildberger jamming maths, ...

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Now let's work out how we can explain this Unified Conscious Field of David Lynch's to physicists! See Norman Wildberger - How Physicists do Maths, and Ice.

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Here's another description with some context for physical intuition:

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