the 5555 <---[ THING ]---- 5555 revelation is too enlightening

[Mithgol]

I believe that the question “Which one of these is the encoder and which the decoder?” becomes really deep when 5555 <---[ THING ]---- 5555 is presented as one of the examples.

That THING does not seem to encode and decode anything. A fan of zen might call it 無駄、 a workless work.

Such revelation is really enlightening but it probably carries the wrong message and that example should actually mirror the previous 5555 ----[ THING ]---> 8888 instead of its current form.

[jbenet]

I laughed out loud in a subway :)

This brings up that that IS a good example.

X ----> X

May really be

X ----> Y ----> X

Underneath the hood.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 20:11 Mithgol notifications@github.com wrote:

I believe that the question “Which one of these is the encoder and which
the decoder?” becomes really deep when 5555 <---[ THING ]---- 5555
is presented as one of the examples.

That THING does not seem to encode and decode anything. A fan of zen
might call it 無駄、 a workless work.

Such revelation is really enlightening but it probably carries the wrong
message and that example should actually mirror the previous 5555 ----[

THING ]---> 8888 instead of its current form.

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