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  1. Oct 2024
    1. You know, where we're helping each other around what we're trying to bring more solidly into the world.

      Yes, this would mean we are ERGODIC and not just a 501c3 and not just an FSC

  2. Sep 2024
  3. evefrontier.com evefrontier.com
    1. Ergodic Reactor

      What could be the principle of work for this device?

      Ergodic, from ergodic process. A process which follow the "ergodic principle"

      • A point in a moving system will eventually visit all parts of the space in a uniform and random sense.
      • Over long periods of time, the time spent by a system in a region of phase space with the same energy is proportional to the volume of that region.

      Reactor, from reaction. The process is an ergodic reaction, what does that mean?

  4. Oct 2015
    1. He began writing a program to make it play draughts (checkers), inspired by a June 1950 article in Penguin Science News.

      It's not insignificant that Strachey began by creating a game before his experiences with combinatory literature. I think that the poetics of the game are an intrinsic part of digital literature. I think it's useful to use Espen Aarseths' terminology of "user" in place of "reader" in order for one to talk about "games" and "books" in the same breath.