“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is
normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of
the way the world works.
!
Anything that's invented between when you’re
fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and
revolutionary and you can probably get a career
in it.
!
Anything invented after you're thirty-five is
against the natural order of things”
–Douglas Adams
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Computer Science
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Colour Perception
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Conclusion
spoiler alert
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Abstraction happens
in our minds
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Abstractions shape
how we perceive things
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Changing abstractions is
a basic principle of
innovation and progress
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Abstraction is the basis
of Computer Science
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Abstraction is the basis
of Computer Science
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Trichromacy
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Patterns and
Algorithms
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?
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?
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Is magenta real?
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Data Abstraction
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“Dataless
Programming”
RM Balzer - 1967
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Space
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Wait,
what?
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Are we still talking
about abstraction?
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Control Abstraction
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Subroutines
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“Go To Statement
considered harmfull”
Edsger Dijkstra, 1968
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“Protection in
Programming Languages"
James H. Morris Jr., 1973
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You should be able to
reason about modules in
isolation
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“Global Variables
Considered Harmful”
W.A. Wulf, M. Shaw, 1973
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Tetrachromacy
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2-3% of all women?
50% of all women?
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Gene on X
chromosome
OPN1MW and OPN1MW2
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Women could have up
to six colour cones
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Mostly dysfunctional
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At least two confirmed
cases
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Seeing millions of
more colours
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Object Oriented
Programming
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#alankayholdingthings
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–Alan Kay
“OOP to me means only messaging, local
retention and protection and hiding of state-
process, and extreme late-binding of all things.”
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Data Abstraction +
Control Abstraction =
Object Oriented Programming
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Why dysfunctional?
(my own unscientific theory)
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We don’t see colours
with our eyes
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We see colours with
our brain
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Our brain adjusts
colours
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We don’t see colours we
don’t have an abstract
concept for
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When we learn to speak, colour
perception switches from left
brain side to right brain side
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We make the rules
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Some rules enable
good programs
(For some definition of good.)
zuzu: dark shades of blue, red, green
and purple
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vapa: white, some shades of yellow
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buru: some shades of green and blue
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dambu: some shades of green, red
and brown
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Abstractions and
Security
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Most attacks rely on switching
up or down abstraction levels
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Abstraction
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Business Logic
only exists in our minds
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Object Oriented
Programming
only exists in our minds
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Colours
only exist in our minds
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UI elements
only exist in our minds
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Countries
only exist in our minds
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Conclusion
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Abstraction happens
in our minds
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All abstraction
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Abstractions shape
how we perceive things
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Changing abstractions is
a basic principle of
innovation and progress