# Algorithms and everything

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-01-09-algorithms-and-everything

The piece argues that algorithmic descriptions are useful only at particular scales and must coexist with incompatible perspectives.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2007

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/09/algorithms-and-everything/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 9 January 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: algorithms, computing, science, language.

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