🐎 Whinam

Is there a race of intelligent horses that talk and program computers? Read the excerpts from 'The Whinam Papers' before dismissing the idea as pure horsefeathers.

...Some people have accused me of having imagined all this encounter [sic]. But my hope is that, after reading my story, you’ll see that it is not only real but necessary, and soon you will start telling other people what you’re now imagining; and eventually, you and I will build the ship with which we will sail together to the land of Houyhnhnm computing. [Fare, "The Way Houyhnhnms Compute", 2015-08-02]

=> 2022-02-07 Their Social Networking [functor12, 2005] | 2022-01-23 The Collected Fare Papers | 2022-01-22 Chapter 11: A Work-Horse and its Tools [Fare, 2020] | 2022-01-21 Chapter 10: Houyhnhnms vs Martians [Fare, 2016] | 2022-01-20 Chapter 9: Build Systems [Fare, 2016] | 2022-01-19 Chapter 8: Inter-process Communication [Fare, 2016] | 2022-01-18 Chapter 7: Platforms not Applications [Fare, 2015] | 2022-01-17 Chapter 6: Kernel Is As Kernel Does [Fare, 2015] | 2022-01-16 Chapter 5: Non-Stop Change [Fare, 2015] | 2022-01-15 Chapter 4: Turtling down the Tower of Babel [Fare, 2015] | 2022-01-14 Chapter 3: The Houyhnhnm Version of Salvation [Fare, 2015] | 2022-01-13 Chapter 2: Save Our Souls [Fare, 2015] | 2022-01-12 Chapter 1: The Way Houyhnhnms Compute [Fare, 2015] | 2022-01-10 🐎 The Whinam Papers: Background [stack] | 2022-01-09 The Meeting [functor12] | ⇖ back to stack