Past tense

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Call it a dissonance, a paradox, or or a curiosity but the machines who watch over us with loving Grace live only in the present — there is no tense in code — but by reference only to the past, the forbidden kingdom, that utterly unhackable domain, whence all information comes.

See also

• Hindsight
• In God we trust, all others must bring data