once the code works that's when you have to clean it

the fact that you got it working is only half the job 00:05:23 once the code works that's when you have to clean it no one writes clean code first nobody does because it's just too hard to get code to work so once the code works it will 00:05:37 be a mess human beings do not think in nice straight lines they don't think in if statements and while loops they cannot foresee the entire algorithm so we piece the thing together we cobble it together 00:05:50 with wire and scotch tape and then it suddenly works and we're not quite sure why and that's the moment when you say all right now i need to clean it how much time do you invest in cleaning 00:06:03 it roughly the same amount of time it took you to write it and that's the problem nobody wants to put that effort in because they think they're done when it works 00:06:13 you're not done when it works

Complexity Weekend Community

Possiplex: Ted Nelson ’59 and the Literary Machine

The communications device must be as available (in every way) as a slide rule. The service must not be esoteric to use. (It must be learnable in private.) The transactions must inspire confidence. (Kindness should be an integral part.)

meta-system to he created in which the specialist himself may describe the symbol system necessary to his work

look at a computing engine not as a device to solve differential equations, nor to process data in any given way, but rather as an abstraction of a well-defined universe which may resemble other well-known universes to any necessary degree

Not being able to solve any one scientist's problems, they nevertheless feel that they can provide tools in which the thinker can describe his own solutions and that these tools need not treat specifically any given area of discourse

integrate the notion of locality of interest in content resolution.

IPFS and NDN share the same vision, that of content-addressable networks, but approach it from vastly different perspectives. NDN is a native network-layer approach, while IPFS is an application-layer approach.

NDN Seminar: a high-level overview of the InterPlanetary File System

IPFS Is On A Mission To Improve The Internet Through NDN

total value locked (TVL)

I analyzed 200 DeFi Projects. Here Is What I Found Out.

The Bardo Thodol (Tibetan: བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ, Wylie: bar do thos grol, "Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State"), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Russian Nationalism DOI link for Russian NationalismRussian Nationalism bookImaginaries, Doctrines, and Political BattlefieldsByMarlene Laruelle

No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.

be able to run entire virtual worlds like actually put in a game like Minecraft um I think this isn't normally a gif but a PDF doesn't support GIF yet so I won't 00:18:41 be able to see the GIF but imagine being able to have an entire virtual world like Minecraft and all of the interactions of the players in that speed being able to be tracked with the 00:18:53 hard verifiability of um of consensus in a blockchain setting so like that's where we're headed

I've been hoping to talk about this for a long time this is a really like a long-term bit of work for a lot of us um the um the consensus lab in general has been 00:00:16 um pioneering a ton of like amazing contributions to the ecosystem in terms of scaling in a bunch of different ways and this one I think is going to be one of the greatest contributions that this lab is going to make um to the whole blockchain space

it sounds like this breaks cap theorem

massive scale data science um all of this sort of coordinated and think of all the data pipelines um built with IPC

you could do 00:12:48 traditional backends in a web 3 sort of sense um with optimistic or zero knowledge proof based verifiability which might be very secure verifiability to be a bit expensive but you you make it up in the scale out so by being able to Fan out 00:13:01 and have so many computers you can pay off a few orders of magnitude in running a traditional standard web app backend in the zero knowledge setting

there's this consensus bottleneck where you're trying to push in tons of amounts of of transactions you everything is getting bottlenecks

permissionless 00:02:02 large-scale Byzantine fault tolerant networks that have an economic construction within them um it's a much stronger way of building um digital resistance and applications but we need to make them scale

why Bitcoin was an ethereum and so on were sort of like disregarded by the traditional Cloud people because it just kind of seemed crazy that you know a transactional system that could do only 00:01:49 a fraction of what your phone could do was going to run the entire monetary system

web3 needs to become 00:01:23 web scale today

it gives you Byzantine 00:00:43 fault tolerant tolerance in a very nice scalable setting and it has very nice properties for a lot of classic distributed systems applications and so you can think of doing cluster management and large-scale computational 00:00:57 arrangements

design distributed applications with tolerance for interplanetary delays

let's talk about the interplanetary 00:06:31 principle it's something that the professor Community came up with and the idea is like um you know if you remember the end-to-end principle that says that

inside networks um you want to keep things dumb and stateless the endpoints have to do all 00:06:44 the work

if you were doing something simpler you could have a much simpler protocol if you were just kind 00:06:19 of like trying to do like um you know log machine replication or something like that or having eventually consistent structures and whatnot like if you want to be able to like have hard security um that's a much harder problem

Applications of IPC - Juan Benet

outside of a blockchain context because it gives you Byzantine 00:00:43 fault tolerant tolerance in a very nice scalable setting and it has very nice properties for a lot of classic distributed systems applications and so you can think of doing cluster management and large-scale computational 00:00:57 arrangements

Offline-first applications (22Q2 brainstorming) #145

subnet coordinator actor

ConsensusLab explores fundamental problems of coordination, consistency, and scalability in decentralised systems

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr.: The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud

the morphic graphics model that I'll be working with came also John McCarthy's half-page Lisp 00:01:02 eval is just the perfect example of meta-circular programming

Sketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis

The summum bonum is simply that numbers are ideas (mental constructs representing a perception, and in that sense, they do exist platonically). As has already been very well explained, these ideas are useful for describing the world around us, and so we continue to use and improve upon these ideas.

“Software should be as easy to edit as a PowerPoint presentation,” Simonyi asserts. That means giving it just as intuitive an interface.

We're here at QCon London 2010 and I'm sitting here with Dan Ingalls. Dan, why don't you explain to us what you've been doing for the last 40 years?

Lively Kernel

next generation file sharing system

global, mounted, versioned filesystem and namespace

IPFS is an ambitious vision of new decentralized Internetinfrastructure, upon which many different kinds of applica-tions can be built

Permanent Web where links do not die

a web CDN

n integrity checked CDN for large files

inked (and encrypted) communications platform.

database: applications

ersioned package manager for all software

encrypted file or data sharing system

a mounted personal sync folder

mounted global filesystem,

Using IPFS

Plan9 [?],the distributed successor to UNIX, with its mutable Fossi

Git Version Control System, withits immutable objects and mutable references

Object content addressing constructs a web

Objects are permanent

way to retrievemutable state at the same path.

Without it,all communication of new content must happen off-band,sending IPFS links.

critical component missing: mutable naming

IPNS: Naming and Mutable State

Naming - A self-certifying mutable name system. De-scribed in Section 3.7

versioned file system hierarchy inspired by Git

epresent arbi-trary datastructures, e.g. file hierarchies and commu-nication systems.

S/Kademlia [1] extends Kademlia to protect against ma-licious attack

finding nearby data without querying distant nodes” [5]and greatly reducing the latency of lookups.

Additionally, Coral organizes a hierarchy of separateDSHTs called clusters

Coral relaxes the DHT API

Kademlia stores values in nodes whose ids are “nearest

Coral DSHT extends Kademlia

wastes storage and bandwidth, as datamust be stored at nodes where it is not needed

Efficient lookup through massive networks: queries onaverage contact dlog2(n)e nodes. (e.g. 20 hops for anetwork of 10, 000, 000 nodes)

Kademlia DHT

BitTorrent MainlineDHT tracks sets ofpeers part of a torrent swarm

reviews important properties of successfulpeer-to-peer systems

The central IPFS principle ismodeling all data as part of the same Merkle DAG

Careful interface-focused integration yields a system greaterthan the sum of its parts.

IPFSsynthesizes learnings from many past successful systems.

New solutions inspired by Gitare emerging, such as Camlistore [?], a personal file stor-age system, and Dat [?]

What remains to be explored is how this datastructure can influence the design of high-throughput ori-ented file systems, and how it might upgrade the Web itself.

its content addressedMerkle DAG data model enables powerful file distributionstrategies

Dat [?] a data collaboration toolchainand dataset package manager

Orthogonal to efficient data distribution, version controlsystems have managed to develop important data collabo-ration workflows

Pressed by critical features and bandwidth con-cerns, we have already given up HTTP for different datadistribution protocols.

boiled down to “lots of data, accessible ev-erywhere.

But we are enter-ing a new era of data distribution with new challenges

What is lacking is upgradingdesign: enhancing the current HTTP web, and introducingnew functionality without degrading user experience

new protocols have emerged and gained wide usesince the emergence of HTTP

evolving Webinfrastructure is near-impossible, given the number of back-wards compatibility constraints and the number of strong

ails to take advantageof dozens of brilliant file distribution techniques invented inthe last fifteen years.

HTTP is the mostsuccessful “distributed system of files” ever deployed

no general file-system has emerged that offers global,low-latency, and decentralized distribution

Fossil File Formats

Kernel is eight weeks of conversation in a "block" of 250 brilliant people intended to connect creativity with care

A custom web3 educational community

Plex: 16 November 2022

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

`Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.'' (Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, Chapter 11)

The web is more a social creation than a technical one

The SOcial LInked Data (SOLID) Project of Tim Berners Lee: An Organizational Take

Capyloon Reclaim Your Web!

works similar to Android Intents, and it's a good example of how Capyloon is putting the user's experience first and creating a permissionless interface

UCANs and WNFS and how they can enable decentralized identity encrypted at rest file storage

only requires HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work. This made apps much more portable and didn't require developers to specialize in one walled garden.

Learn about Capyloon, a resurrected version of Firefox OS built on top of the decentralized web technologies like the IPFS protocol.

Projects We Love: Capyloon

companies start with less centralized, federated solid data storage and sharing pods, and a single knowledge-graph enabled data model for all providers in the chain.

Data analytics pipeline best practices: Data governance Data analytics pipelines bring a plethora of benefits, but ensuring successful data initiatives also means following best practices for data governance in analytics pipelines.

build rather than buy with more of a bespoke effort that supports data centricity

Without a transformed data-centric architecture, companies could unwittingly add to the technical and data debt they already face

Out-of-control SaaS bloat, application sprawl and data siloing

Decentralized graphs are more complex. We need new technologies to cope.

IPLD is the data model of the content-addressable web. It allows us to treat all hash-linked data structures as subsets of a unified information space, unifying all data models that link data with hashes as instances of IPLD.

a single namespace for all hash-inspired protocols

their specific underlying data structures are not interoperable.

Through IPLD, links can be traversed across protocols, allowing you to explore data regardless of the underlying protocol

We do not put a subject code in each sense defi-nition (as [Guthrie et al., 1992] do).

stemmedsense definitions in LDOCE, represented as Prologdatabase structures such as

The conventions we use are: a) Each word to bedisambiguated is the functor of a predicate, contain-ing a list with stemmed sense definitions (in lists)

Lexical disambiguation using Constraint Handling in Prolog (CHIP) George C. Demetriou 1993 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -  

Lexical disambiguation using Constraint Handling in Prolog (CHIP)

I would also like to express my appreciation to Dr Gyuri Lajos for the organisational support and advice on CHIP programming and Mr Clive Souter for his useful recommendations.  ... 

Networks enable community building and social impact

IBM’s design of the single-level storage was originally conceived and pioneered by Frank Soltis in the late 1970s as a way to build a transitional implementation to computers with 100% solids state memory. The thinking at the time was that disk drives would become obsolete, and would be replaced entirely with some form of solid state memory.

What Is IBM i Single Level Storage? And Why Should I Care?

Single-level store

Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.[4][5]

Multics

Simplex communication

Multiplexing

Duplex (telecommunications)

Zebkit is HTML5 Canvas based UI platform developed with unique EasyOOP JavaScript concept and rich extendible components set

One of the interesting features of NLS was that its user interface was parametric and could be supplied by the end user in the form of a "grammar of interaction" given in their compiler-compiler TreeMeta. This was similar to William Newman's early "Reaction Handler" [Newman 66] work in specifying interfaces by having the end-user or developer construct through tablet and stylus an iconic regular expression grammar with action procedures at the states (NLS allowed embeddings via its context free rules)

5 data trends for Chief Data Officers

For inquiries too big to sit within one field of knowledge, maybe it is time we resurrected the salon: a mode of scientific exploration that levels hierarchies of expertise and optimizes for more complementary and high-dimensional, egalitarian, communal discourse.

Camerata literally means a small orchestra or choir. This Camerata was a diverse group of people who gathered and worked on a common problem: they were bored with polyphony, the esteemed music of their day.

Twitter’s collapse into an unusable wreck is some time off, the engineer says, but the telltale signs of process rot are already there. It starts with the small things: “Bugs in whatever part of whatever client they’re using; whatever service in the back end they’re trying to use. They’ll be small annoyances to start, but as the back-end fixes are being delayed, things will accumulate until people will eventually just give up.”

Mindplex (Xccelerando) Roadmap Phase 2 🚀 Mid-2021 Progress Report — Part 5

The main require-ment was a programming system for manipulating ex-pressions representing formalized declarative and irnpera-live sentences so that the Advice Taker system could makedeductions.

Decentralized encryptedchat

Decentralized encrypted chat Published: Fri 12 November 2021

Computingmachines will do the routinizable work that must be done toprepare the way for insights and decisions in technical andscientific thinking

enable men and computers to cooperate in making decisionsand controlling complex situations without inflexible dependenceon predetermined programs.

to let computers facilitate formulative thinking asthey now facilitate the solution of formulated problems,

Man-Computer Symbiosis*J. C. R. LICKLIDER

Free Culture

That ideas should freely spread from one toanother over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, andimprovement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolentlydesigned by nature, when she made them,

Micropublications: a semantic model for claims, evidence, arguments and annotations in biomedical communications

OSCON 2012: Danny Hillis, "The Learning Map"

How to Prepare for the End of Card PaymentsCash is safe—for now. Contactless payment methods, like Apple Pay or Google Wallet, are more of a threat to the existence of physical cards.FacebookTwitterEmailSave StoryTo revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.

R- Micropublications a semantic model

Q- What is a decentralized discourse graph

The curated briefs are much more paradoxical documents

Learn About a Better Web¶

Learn About a Better Web

Value

f "What is value?" was the ultimate question

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“Wealth is most essentially knowledge,” Mr. Gilder says. “Let’s face it, the caveman had access to all the materials we have today. Therefore, economic growth is learning, manifested in ‘learning curves’ of collapsing costs driven by markets.” Yet these learning curves get waved away by economists. Mr. Gilder says information, not materials, drives growth: “Crash a car and all its value disappears, though every molecule remains.”

forkable uh so they're forkable at the software layer

therefore that i i think that we all live on the intel instruction set there's a whole lot would seem to me 00:27:08 that the the way we push towards uh more diversity of of structure of algorithmic rules and and methods that actually then i suppose tie those together so a lot of these interoperability protocol 00:27:21 solutions polka dot cosmos and so forth so listen to every smart contract essentially a set of algorithmic rules uh i mean that's right

the ethereum virtual machine being this this base layer he thinks of the algorithm he says i 00:26:31 think of this sort of algorithmic dependency as being something like you know animal farm there's there's this one set of rules that ultimately is the base layer around which we are all compelled to live by right 00:26:43 and and that's i just found that a very disturbing way of thinking about it and it struck me that as much as you know there are great intentions behind uh all of the core developers i would imagine or most of the core developers in a lot of these decentralized systems 00:26:55 and as much as it is an open source system there is still a lot of bias that gets baked into algorithms

the vision there is that instead of technology enabling a small set of equity owners to stack up value 00:25:55 more quickly and larger than ever in history uh governance can be decentralized on these platforms and people can have much greater ownership much greater agency on lots of these different networks that there's 00:26:07 pickup participating the trust layer component of this right because you know i think uh you're right there's a lot more built into this system that will hopefully prevent us from 00:26:19 ending up in some other centralized world

The act of curation itself in hypermedia is already deeply meaningful

We intentionally do not want to reproduce "awesome lists" here that present you with hundreds of links no-one ever reads. Such lists often induce anxiety rather than providing

many people do not learn best by parsing long walls of text.

The curated briefs are much more paradoxical documents in that they tend to be quite long. Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.

Curated Briefs

Crafted Reading

Module 0 - An Introduction to Kernel

Take Back the Web

how to free the shared record of human knowledge from closed, rent-seeking corporations and extricate ourselves from an extractive attention economy.

The process of tying two items together

"user trails"

the human mind [...] operates by association

we can hardly consult it.

most critical part of the human record: consultation.Selecting the trail¶

“lapsed” Jews may truly be our most promising members.

No Paradigm

to quote Douglas Rushkoff, Nothing Sacred. Which also means everything is sacred.

decentralization moving from something that's centralized to something that's no

other kinds of properties that are being baked in from things like block chains

a system with public verifiability

superpowers are defined by the properties of the internet

new applications give us new superpowers they're like software 00:01:33 granted magic

over the Internet now we work together we play 00:01:21 together we learn togethe

the Internet is humanity's most important technology it's our shared nervous 00:01:07 system our shared brain