This article and your comment reminded me of something Stephen Wolfram was saying about "mining" the latent space of, in his case, cellular automata as a computational medium. A quick search yields this somewhat older talk: Mining the Computational Universe https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/mining-computati...

That phrasing and analogy stuck in my mind, of looking at the space of all possible programs as a resource to be explored for valuable nuggets of algorithms. Your description of interpolating between two functions gives me a similar perspective, of seeing algorithms not only as discrete and separate objects/processes, but "slices" of a larger space, the continuum of computation.

What the article is describing seems to me like "slices of semantic space", not just similar on the surface, but it's actually talking about the same space explored using different tools and lenses.