Liberman’s implied argument isthat adaptive interfaces could be a solution to the problem of information overload that Web users face today

mechanism, known as the Actor Model

An Actor is a lightweight computational unit

Actor model

I'm paging you now because I'm helping organize a series of events around Tools for Thinking, starting with this event on Tuesday: https://lnkd.in/gmJ46wZK

As I write this, a 29-year-old developer of the Tornado Cash protocol has also apparently been arrested in Amsterdam. Jeez.

Github has removed Tornado Cash’s source code and banned source contributors (hence the need for decentralized alternatives like Radicle). 

While Radicle was initially built using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the team later decided that the IPFS did not satisfy the performance requirements required by the project.

Radicle (RAD): An Open-Source Github Alternative

Web Share API W3C Editor's Draft 12 July 2022

Eric Weinstein on Edugenic Harm and Neurodiversity

That’s why a scientist looking at my brain and seeing this pattern should ask me what I feel, because the pattern is not the feeling itself, just a representation of it.”

Ronen Tamari@rtk2541/Excited to share some new work on collective sensemaking! We’ll present it in the Blue Sky Ideas track (~open, exciting areas for R&D) of the upcoming @ACMHT This is a collective effort of @daostack, Veeo, @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06345

7/Stigmergy refers to the phenomena of indirect coordination mediated by modifications of the environment, eg ant pheromone trails. The crazy part is that the env acts as a kind of distributed memory system for a collective organism: https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389041715000327

16/ interoperable protocols/storage for stigmergic primitives can enable bootstrapping existing PKP growth for *collective* sensemaking/knowledge.

Decentralized OrganizationShape a new structure, which is collaborative, autonomous and transparent.

“It is wrong to think that the  task of physics is to find out how Nature is.   Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.”  Well it turns out that if we pay attention to this   subtle difference, some of the most mysterious  aspects of nature make a lot more sense. What is physics really trying to do? Is it to find  the mathematical laws that govern the universe?  

founders of quantum theory were convinced that  the role of physics was one step further removed   still. Neils Bohr insisted that what we actually  model is the results of observation, not the world   itself.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations. —René Descartes, 1637, A Discourse on Method

Cognitive Limits to Natural Knowledge Creation

It assumes the centrality of knowledge forthe rise of Western modernity; and it illustrates that with regard to their knowl-edge foundations, such a rise was not a natural process but an unnatural one,critically relying on path-dependent factors that might not repeat elsewhere.Because it enabled the West to transcend the inherent limits of the humanmind, I call this process the “great knowledge transcendence.”

ring the heyday of “the Whig interpretation of history,” history wasregarded as a natural and inevitable march toward modernity, including con-stitutionalism, freedom, science, technology, and capitalism.

ToolsForThinkingHow New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

observed in fact or in thought

Autonomy is about having the trust and authority to make important decisions about how we fulfill our responsibilities and accomplish our goals.

not everybody wants versioning not everybody wants encryption and privacy like i think that having this be a set of progressive upgrades would be really good but like i'm just wondering what the right substrate is

quick query on top of the new winfs stuff was like oh we got to plug like application specific merge semantics into how do we actually merge two files because as soon as you introduce versioning you get branching as soon as you get branching you wanna put those things back together and if 00:23:01 you wanna put those things back together and you just try to let a computer magically do it for you it's not gonna end well

arbitrary metadata in a second versioning not everybody needs but like it's pretty dope it's good to have um and we need some type of mutability like an aiming system that 00:21:04 that is robust and works

we really like we fully drink drink drank drunk drink still drink the content addressing kool-aid like i think that content addressing is 00:09:19 a fundamental like primitive that i want to see proliferate

ipfs sold as a bill of goods that it could not deliver on which uh is uh in many ways true and i want to get into some details on that

IPFS þingþing (n). thing, assembly, meeting, council. parliament.

Marc-Antoine Parent 1st degree connection 1st Fondateur chez Solutions Conversence

. Conversation is a method for converging on eventually consistent states among distributed peers.

creative scenius between band members playing jazz, or among designers collaborating on a project.

Diverge/converge, the ur-shape of design.

A speaker flattens a cloud of connected ideas into a linearized subset. A listener unpacks them. The conversation loop.

Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes”  can occasionally generate.

Conversation theory is a cybernetic and dialectic framework that offers a scientific theory to explain how interactions lead to "construction of knowledge", or "knowing": wishing to preserve both the dynamic/kinetic quality, and the necessity for there to be a "knower

∀ (FOR ALL) utf-8 character icon FOR ALL is one of the 256 characters in the Mathematical Operators Unicode subset.

Technography

Get more insight from TwitterTwemex is a browser extension for Twitter that automatically surfaces the most interesting ideas.It helps you spend less time mindlessly scrolling, and more time developing your thoughts

Expertise revisited, Part I—Interactional expertise

In a world filled with ever-more-complex technological, sociological, ecological, political & economic systems... a tool to make interactive simulations may not be that much help. But it can certainly try

Socialroots Cross-group collaboration, simplified.

tummler is the person who keeps everyone else talking interestingly. Short version http://j.mp/tummler - long version is 100 hours of conversation http://tummelvision.tv.

Argument Technologies (and things that seem like they might be/become)Add shortcut to Drive   

how we make sense of complexity in the world around us; how we turn confusion into action; and how we can overcome hubris to achieve meaningful systems change.

break inside the file they are declared. The reason for this issimple; those low-level objects return information to the interface(properties and methods) of the Motor and the Storage file NOT the Car fileitself.

Logic Room PresentsThink!Like a UI Architect5 Critical Lessons for Framework-agnosticJavaScript UI App Design and Structure

a crimp tree node for for each chunk of your file or directory and that can have links to the the encrypted file fragments and so the keys in this champ are 00:05:42 basically random um subsequent keys in a file are not random but they're still not deducible uh by the server so the storage Your Home Server can't figure out or can't link 00:05:54 the different chunks of the same file so we use that to hide the the tires of the file among among other ways the read correctly is pretty simple it's it's been discussed earlier but yeah 00:06:07 it's a tree of symmetric keys if you have one key you can follow the the arrows follow the links it also gives everything a well-defined path so if I just give you access to this file you can follow the parent links to get the names 00:06:21 so you have a path but you still can't see if there are any other files in that directory any siblings or anything like that the right tree is even simpler so there's just one key for each file or 00:06:34 directory these are all symmetric keys by the way in the previous slide um also the top ones are symmetric Keys these are obviously key pairs at the bottom um and the the metadata that we protect 00:06:49 file names file name sizes if you care about that uh the file sizes I've mentioned so there's a chunking part get you down to 00:07:00 modulo 5 Meg

it's pure capabilities so you don't need to rely on a server to enforce Access Control it's fine-grained it's also stored in a champ we like Champs the ciphertext access access control is 00:04:09 a relatively new thing that's as of January this year we do that with things called block access tokens or bats

whirlwind tour of pergos

* A Compressed Hash-Array Mapped Prefix-tree (CHAMP), a refinement of a Hash Array Mapped Trie (HAMT)

Sadly, these things were meant to help you but they haven’t…

I opened my desk drawer and took out a copy of Zhuan Falun. While holding the book in my two hands and facing him, I said, "Please read the book carefully, and think about it. If you have the determination to quit, I will try my best to help you."

If you smoked and practised Qigong , you would still be healthier then if you smoked and did not practise Qigong though.

Rene ChampagnePractising Falun Gong

Ours is an age of AGI

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

"τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν" to mean that "evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction".

There are a number of systems that utilize content-basedaddressing to access content and information (e.g. Git,IPFS, Perkeep, Tahoe-LAFS, etc)

"add marginal notes and comments," and "build a trail of his interest" through the larger information space.

Still Building the Memex

This is an additional 170 words/4000, and paraphrases an opinion most famously put forward by Michael Polanyi, a Hungarian-English polymath of genius level, who made contributions to chemistry, philosophy and economics, and who delineated the importance of “tacit knowledge” (that is, knowledge that was acted out but not necessarily articulated) in the transmission of specialized technical ability across the generations. Hudlicky was therefore criticized and pilloried by individuals on Twitter who appeared to know nothing of M. Polanyi’s work on tacit knowledge (for whom such ignorance was perhaps justifiable) but also by the editor of Angewandte, for whom such ignorance (voluntary or otherwise) was most certainly not.

verbpast tense: interspersed; past participle: interspersedscatter among or between other things; place here and there."deep pools interspersed by shallow shingle banks"

Event Notifications in Value-Adding Networks

Gasoline prices, 01-Aug-2022

ARPANET Posted on July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by PCI Editor

Obsidian works completely offline

Total control Your notes live on your device, period. You can encrypt them or back them up however you want; it's your decision, not ours. Plain text files let you do various sync, encryption, and data processing on top of it. Obsidian plays nice with Dropbox, Cryptomator, and any software that works with plain text files.

Future-proof format Obsidian uses Markdown.

The place for your knowledge to shine Effortlessly publish your notes from Obsidian.Build your knowledge kingdom with Obsidian Publish.

$20 per month or $192 per year per site. Hassle-free refund within 7 days.

PKM MOC Hi Future Self 👋 Here are "best practices" for managing your PKM system.

The five Cs stand for capture, curate, connect, collaborate, and create.

Hypothes.is, a web annotation tool, as an off-label zettelkasten?!

Who’s up for a public, social zettelkasten practice?

Hypothes.idian for Obsidian to do just this.)

Robotic Process Automation - RPA Solutions for Business

Any which sufficiently symmathetic comment thread, is indistinguishable from one building block of an MVP of our own making.

We made it? What happened? We happened.

Participatory Inquiry, episode 135: User Flows“In a network, social cognition is how we coordinate movement.”@johnkellden

where users are in control of their personal data

Indynet is part of Master Technology Cia.Ltda. a company that was born in the city of Quito at the initiative of four young indigenous people of the Saraguro nationality, from the San Lucas parish, was initially created with the purpose of providing technical service in the aforementioned city.

Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming

Riley!@riley_stewsA fast-paced world of user-created content almost looks like the Flash portals of the 2000s, whose simpler and more accessible programming pushes it towards more diverse authoring. Mostly memes, but some really stunning creativity.

Riley!@riley_stews·Aug 2Replying to @riley_stewsScratch's statistics are pretty mind-boggling: peaked close to 1M MAUs this year, most of those children building and exploring a world of amateur multimedia and simple programming. https://scratch.mit.edu/statistics/

Polywrap Demos A collection of demos to showcase different aspects of Polywrap

Fri, Aug 5th: Polywrap overview for the IPFS communityhttps://lu.ma/e91yilt2

I know I could probably move them to some cloud, but I have no idea which one could work (the most popular ones seem not to)

It’s comments all the way down.

Day 11: Getting Twitter Media and Links

https://fightwithtools.dev/projects/context-pages/

building easy to use websites, archives – in a way that allows them to interact with each other

This site is set up to provide deep lists of links about any topic, providing useful resources to understand that topic along with timelines and useful notes.

Most tools come from one or two of these dimensions; almost none cover all of them. A radar (or spider) diagram is a good way to visualize them (this illustration doesn’t map to the dimensions above, but should): 

Level Up With React QueryThe official React Query course will get you building apps like a pro.

And to prove they’re not playing favorites, they changed their name from React Queryto TanStack Query

StackEdit@stackeditFull-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.stackedit.ioJoined April 201330 Following1,879 Followers

Add StackEdit to any website

Add StackEdit to any website

In-browser Markdown editor

for static sites, with embedded edit links in each page. There's also https://stackedit.io/

"static site" handler

Web UI: viewer for plain text files.

What if every individual thing in your personal computing domain could be linked or backlinked in your overall digital graph?

The future of computing is in its past

INDYWEB.NET

Indy is Open Source and developed solely by volunteers and with the help of its corporate sponsors. Indy has had a long history that goes back to 1993. Indy has grown over the years and now is the largest, most comprehensive socket library available on any platform.

Cryptoeconomics is the combination of cryptography and economics for the goal of social coordination towards desirable outcomes. The realization that decentralization needs to come with an incentive layer was a key insight.

like an alternative to DNS

reuse and build off past thoughts.

Structural affordances in current tools conflict with our desire to work at the speed of thought.

working at the speed of thought

contextual index page

This is a hypertext hub.

infamously hard problem

A common assumption from builders is that the answer is to focus on individual synthesis with the expectation that distributed synthesis will happen out of band.

represent latent connections in imported text or quick capture quick capture Quick capture refers to the general idea of getting a thought down quickly. Some apps, like Drafts and Weavit, are designed around this concept.... 06/07/2022 thoughts. Linking unlinked references is tool for structure in hindsight structure in hindsight ... 06/07/2022 .

Perkeep Alternatives

pk-get -shared

if the pink plane there is reality then what do people think the blue plane is like insanity 00:39:07 you are insane and learning a new idea something that your brain isn't well set up for could require almost as much creativity as inventing it in the first place because you have to invent it 00:39:24 inside your head

the biggest problems with computing is in a sense we have too many smart people it attracts 00:36:44 cleverness and you can do clever hacks but the clever hacks don't scale well and it's very hard to build a halflife into software it just stays around forever and so what what's actually 00:37:00 happening is kind of something like building a large garbage dump that makes it the odor of which makes it very hard to think about other things so if we 00:37:10 take news or normal we can think we can solve problems avoid obstacles beg every once in while we have an outlaw thought

Newton is a perfect example because before Newton the smartest people in the world couldn't do things that a high school calculus student can easily do so calculus is like getting an extra brain 00:36:16 and it makes you much much more able than a genius who doesn't have it so these outlook changing things are really critical

try having one when you're going out for tenure think of all the different reviewers who already have an idea of what computer science should be 00:37:52 about it's crazy and people start winding up gaming the system and doing lots and lots of little papers that mean nothing at all in order to get the 00:38:04 approval of these reviewers whose ideas about computing might be completely off

i don't want this to be like uh it only works for me um and the only way to see this is to have people try it out

Quinn Warnick Deputy Executive Director at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Iowa State University Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Who needs a new iPhone? I want a memex in my office.

Kwisatz Haderach

Indeed, it appeared that the majority of people did not realize that to know the future is to be trapped by it.

Boris Mann@bmannReplying to @csageland @RobertHaisfield and 3 othersthese are all roughly in the same class of tools. The question is — can it be setup in such a way to engage / entrain multi-user participation. So much of online talks are either synchronous live discussion or lean back experiences. Group note taking FTW!5:14 AM · Jul 27, 2022·Tweetbot for iΟS

Our own @csageland will be kicking off a series looking at sensemaking in groups! On August 9th come talk with @RobertHaisfield about his research on #ScalingSynthesis. Join us in the #ToolsForThought community, catalyzed by @FISSIONcodes's @bmann

Warning: this post is a “brain dump first draft” of my chapter’s Abstract and Introduction, so it’s long.

From Personal to Social Knowledge Graphs: a vision statement

That's why they're "usually just one of an array of tools... cobble[d] together for discovering, bookmarking and reading content; developing ideas in private and discussing them in public; writing, publishing and sharing" .../2

I'll be writing a chapter of @PkgBook (PKG = Personal Knowledge Graphs) over the summer. Which is ironic, because I think @jmrphy is pretty spot on - as standalone tools, PKGs are not that useful for deep writing: https://otherlife.co/pkm/ /1

If I had to share one image from my current model, it'd be how linking Personal knowledge graph-based thinking tools together via the Fediverse creates personalised Social knowledge graphs for everyone.

Follow a Hub to get a feed of high-quality content piped into your Private Reading Queue, and ReBlog individual resources straight to your Hub.

Imagining new MyHub.ai features as the pilot Hubs launch

Post-Alpha: What happens after the Alpha phase? Do faq , myhub , post-alpha 28/11/1994

Mathew@mathewlowryFounder: http://MyHub.ai. Info. architect, editor & more, Knowledge4Policy & others. Writer: The Mission, Better Humans, Chatbot Mag. = curation not endorsementBrusselsmyhub.ai/@mathewlowry/Joined October 20071,681 Following2,374 Followers

FAQ: What's with this "alpha phase"? What comes next?

Mathew Lowry's Hub Menu Get a hub

What you Like, Think and Do, together in one place.

FAQ: Does MyHub.ai support RSS? Do rss , faq , myhub

The NDN project is investigating Jacobson's proposed evolution from today's host-centric network architecture IP to a data-centric network architecture (NDN).

InterPlanetary File System

we do not 00:25:20 yet have is international settlement based on cbdc's

Simonyi invented Bravo, the first word-processing program that showed on-screen exactly how a document would look in print-a concept commonly referred to as “what you see is what you get.”

What Executive Order 14067