Submitted by Oliver (not verified) on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 17:36.
@Peter: Thanks! I wouldn't try to actually apply Hooke's law to this, though. I've updated the post to say that I don't think this is a "productive metaphor". If there is one I bet it has to do more with pressure than springs, but I haven't thought this through.
Oliver Steele lives in Western Massachusetts and commutes to downtown LA, where he is bringing an operating system from handwaving to reality. He was the architect of OpenLaszlo, the author of PyWordNet and other open source projects. His interests include programming languages, knowledge representation, information visualization, and math education. [more]
@Peter: Thanks! I wouldn't try to actually apply Hooke's law to this, though. I've updated the post to say that I don't think this is a "productive metaphor". If there is one I bet it has to do more with pressure than springs, but I haven't thought this through.