Just a page counter dev. Got bought out in 1997 by a famous page counter at the time, invested in a tenth of an acre, and grew some beans. They were heirloom seeds, so my costs were low.
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If so, I'll check out your repo, if you have it available. The green checkmark means the signed data in the floppy png is validated by the npub. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I've tracked the work at i-Vis Research Lab for years, but somehow I missed this paper until today. Expanding nodes and tracking the diagram cognitively as the view changes is a hard problem. This paper and toolkit attempts to solve this and related issues. https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716251383173 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy 641a npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Are you going to use Tauri? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Brian Castellani & Lasse Gerrits complexity map (updated for 2021): npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Some Coltrane Love Supreme flavor in that intro... Ya know, I Love Cohen... seriously big fan, but he brings this down. I want the whole set to be Rollins. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I was able to turn 11299 heptads into a fully functioning interactive journal reader in 46 lines of code. Next up, I'll publish the journal and code and create a video presentation. This year is the 40th anniversary of the two visions/meditations that started this journey ( which is in my journal). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy You aren't the only one to use the word provocateur. He does have some decent credentials and experience. I thought about this recently, because of NostrHub's use of the Amanita muscaria for their logo. https://nostrhub.io/ npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I want to know what that roofing material is. Beautiful. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'm on a Stevie Nicks binge as I code. She wrote Rose Garden in 1965, when she was 17 years old. It is a simple, beautiful song. I interviewed for an IT job at an early dot com in the late 90s. They liked me, but I shared that I wasn't going to work much over 40 hours. I was already burned out from my last job (my current job sucked too, but because I was bored). An engineer there said he had no problem working 80 hours, because he was going to retire and grow his own rose garden with all the money he would make from his options. He got this faraway, sweet look in his eyes as he said this. I felt included in his vision. I could see it too. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I woke up and had the urge to strip out graphologyjs, and process heptads in memory for page rendering on the client app as needed. Alternating between proper graph databases, though, has helped my data model/schema. If Charles Peirce had a computer/JS, it would help reveal the nature of triples. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Until a couple of years ago, I refused to be labelled as well. It can be confusing until you realize just how differently the experience of the world is between ND and NT. Now, I don't think my particular fucked onion of features is the same as anybody else. The key part is that the nature of my fucked is way, way different. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy That's a good analogy. Many professional drivers prefer manual transmissions, or they don't feel they are really driving under control. Power steering is also tricky, as you can't feel the road. Feedback is good to have from the wheel. A 72 Datsun 510 was a great economical car to drive if you liked feeling the road, etc. Independent rear suspension made it good too... sometimes tech in between helps, sometimes it is a buffer that isolates. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Family first. Internet second. My mom and her mom helped with the early stuff, primarily. The internet existed, too, and Google had done a decent job indexing it and prioritizing via weighted knowledge graphs on the back-end, so it was a good resource. I was a very late father, but even before the Internet went beyond academic/military, Compuserve and The Source had online resources. I used to use The Source via one of these: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Tron, the 1982 version of the movie. Which... small tidbit for devs... is trace on from BASIC. The movie was groundbreaking in its day. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy My entire sojourn into origin and graph definitions this morning was because I realized all integrations of knowledge when fully distributed centered around the graph (heptad element 1). I'm grooving on HTML presentation, and don't want to modify the heptads, as they have signatures. They are cumulative, so if Alice posts an origin page (index.html) and Bob wants to collaborate, Bob could either build off of Alice's graph directly by using the same ID, or just use Alice's predicates. By decoupling, it allows Bob to do stuff like use a different signature algorithm or expand the model in a different way. There should also be a similar choice for all nodes in collaboration. Bob might want to correct Alice's value. This is going a bit wide, but if Alice likes everything that Bob corrects except for a handful, Alice could exclude the edge made by quad. To picture how I intend this to work in reality, imagine multiple people just publishing a collection of HTML pages on the WWW. References to the graph could be set as an attribute. If Bob and Alice are working the same model, the graph "node" would have a URI reference. It could also have an nprofile or npub (although that limits the flexibility in Nostr land). I had to iron this out a bit and brainstorm (with myself... publicly in my ship's log) to get my bearings. Well... back to the JavaScript mines for now. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Notice that by removing physical, signature, and even ID bindings to URIs, message form, or algo, it is completely portable. I can assert a new form of signature algo at any time. Of course, you'd have to trust that I controlled the private key and you had a public ID that matched. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The root graph is always weird. Consistency appears to go away. This is the heptad for setting the signature algo: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The graph node (heptad element 1) must have an attribute for signature algorithm, for example, Ed25519 or secp256r1. This ensured the knowledge model is not tethered to any unneeded constraints, physical or otherwise. The model is portable between all messaging platforms (MQTT, Nostr, ATProto, HTTP, SMTP, SMS). The models are cumulative. A delete is an attribute on a new assertion (much like on Nostr relays). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The question is, at what point do you call it creation? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy ¡Wow BoB woW! npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy @nprofile…8wek and his industrial stream today reminds me of a story. At the time when I was feeding myself coffee, front-242 and Gen (psychic TV Gen) as math study grind music, I didn't go much darker. Coil? A couple decades later, all of Gen's previous band's work (Throbbing Gristle) was re-released. It had never interested me before, because it was too dark and odd, but over the years I had dug into some of Gen's weirder post-Throbbing-Gristle stuff, so I thought I was ready. I was curious. This was right about the time that I had to clean up an attic crawl space filled with old dusty insulation and rat shit. I couldn't do it in the summer, as it was too hot, so I had to do it in the spring and fall. I had a tyvec suite, full face mask and n95 filter. I bagged up all the old insulation, vacuumed up the remaining dust with a HEPA vacuum, and painted everything. I was probably up there for a couple hundred hours all-in-all, and I played the entire work of Throbbing Gristle over and over again on my headphones. It was a PITA to unsuit. I had a big container I used to gather the old insulation before I bagged it. I'd just sit down in it and piss when I needed too. I was always dripping wet with sweat. It didn't matter (I was hugging the summer, going up there until it was too hot). Most of the time I was laid out reaching under the eaves, pulling insulation in a claustrophobic way. My roof doesn't have much of a pitch. I can still hear the screech of IBM and Gen's droning about hamburger lady, but ... completely serious here... I took on some trauma with the combination, and I haven't listened to Throbbing Gristle since. Now, when I go back up in the crawl space I get a dark overhang of that past trauma and weight pressing down on me. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy We could loan you some blue angels. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy You can simplify code quite a bit if your data schema fits well. Even better is a data schema with just the right combination of elements to not be cumbersome but still facilitate #emergent #analysis without external frames. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy You are evil. But, a few bars of Tool 46 and 2 and both are erased. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy If you want some data to run the code against: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Finally heading out on my walk after coding since the wee hours. I'll be singing this song the entire walk. That is how it works in me brain. I hope this makes you happy. (could be much, much, worse kukukachoo). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Heptads are inspired by NIP-01. But, I use Ed25519, since it is native in Deno and Web APIs. I'm also using the new Uint8Array.fromBase64. Again, I'm not particularly interested in growing this by taking a layer 7 app and emulating the lower OSI layers (reaching around my back to scratch my elbow), nor do I focus on social networking. I *do* like the old idea of Scuttlebutt, but in a scenario where we assemble for a crisis rather than for dev conferences. I know these aren't exclusive, and the network of relays is important for that, but I figure it is just as easy to route these over *whatever* exists. MQTT will work as well. Frankly, I think it might make the most sense to just publish maps over HTTPS in many cases. Regardless, Nostr tech is the closest overall, and NIP-07 solves many headaches I've had in the past (particularly WebID and TLS client certs). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy My experience is that different clients/apps handle it differently and sometimes it ends up being a long nasty unintelligible string. Plus, it is all assembled at the client, so it relies on relays, etc. But... I get your point. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Here ya go: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I distinguish logical and physical layers differently: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqem5aztzsk7n29qp32hdudwt62305tsrfct6jl7dxh2fe3647fhgg6sjyh npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy NM. I see what you did there, Derek. Somehow I missed that. "The people building the next internet." The fucking HUBRIS of you folks (from somebody that read RFCs since... forever). But, a tip-o-the-hat for your signed JSON extensibility efforts. Also, I love it that your favicon is an Amanita muscaria. Fuck yeah! Jesus was a mushroom. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Derek, is there a WoT repo besides this? I know of the github one (nostr-protocol) and a few tries at pure Nostr repos, and some mirror/dumps to a website, but this is the only one I know of with WoT in the UI. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy That reminds me a bit of when I compiled a custom kernel/OS for my chicken coop video cam back in the day: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy #introduction npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I figured out something about FIPS and Nostr and the WWW as TBL imagined. TBL had triples correct (S,P,O: word orange(S) has a hyperlink(P) to a wiki page(O)) . These work at a logical level. But, he mixed physical(ish) and logical perspectives for G, the graph/domain. If he had kept those separate and used something like RDF N-Quads, but layered it within HTML, we would have many options besides ICANN in an explicit way. Most of the WWW is based on knowledge woven with corporate/org control structures that only need to be there for a physical perspective. In other words, he could have gone full open-world assumption on all 4. FIPS and Nostr also add identity and endorsement (identity=npub and endorsement=signing with nsec). We also need time. So, we have G,S,P,O,I,E,T. You can collaborate on knowledge with 7. Tip-o-the-hat to you Nostr/FIPS freaks for getting me here. I've been wrangling with identity, signatures, and sequences for a long time, longer than Bitcoin, but I'm fairly certain you helped push me over the finish line. Remaining in my investigations is how an unlimited pool of node IDs affects link rot of knowledge. TBL was also concerned with that, but he assigned nodes (as does RDF/OWL) with paths, which also seems braindead on reflection... but I'm still working that out. My memory on surface FIPS reading is it is doing it with IPV6, but, frankly, that is yet another physicalish binding vs logical. Oh... and this also points out a good distinction between Nostr and WebID for distributed identity. ~Peg npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy fucking great movie npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Room darkens. Young man in suit looking quite nervous, stands up in front of the room with a remote. Product development and other corporate sponsors and stakeholders line the polished wood table. Their line of cameras has been in decline. Their company is in trouble. The young man starts his Power Point deck with his remote and clears his throut. Projected on the screen on his first slide is a single word: "Texture" npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://youtu.be/RmO0RGtQdx4 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy That escalated quickly. This is culture today. You could just say "there is a window". This is one of the reasons I like interacting. It is kind of like a science experiment with culture. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy You out-do me, even in my more manic flurries, that's for sure. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'm not sure what I like more, that it is "Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn" or references Vervaeke and McGilchrist. A couple nights ago my wife wanted me to watch something called 15 minutes of Internet on youtube on the tv. It was a collection of vine-like funny vids. As she was trying to find it, a lecture by McGilchrist came up as something we might want to watch. I laughed a bit at the incongruence, both the subject matter, and the fact that it was an hour and a half long lecture by McGilchrist. (bookmarking this, but I have to use a different client) npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy It took me a bit too long to get the crackhead reference, but I got there eventually. Congrats npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy <this image brought to you by r2a dot primal dot net> npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Now, my postscript stuff is still interesting. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Ever find old code you wrote and it is so ugly it is useless? My-o-my, I was just starting out and figuring Python was the way. Ugh... not sure I can even use this: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy My local-first vs. offline-only vs online-available needs a flowchart. Of course, I need to create a knowledge graph, so I had to look up some old work of mine from almost six years ago. I probably have a hundred thousand files to search through, so sometimes the Wayback Machine is easiest. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy This one is growing on me. #NowPlaying #AnasaziKaha #CodingMusic npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Yes. You are more famous than I. I drank beer in a tent with Larry Wall in 1999. I was fourteen feet away from him. He didn't know I was there, but that is my bit of fame. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Anybody else sing all three every time? 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Today I'm figuring out if I can bypass the fetch based on a timestamp value in local storage without messing with the overall performance on initial load. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy deep sound coming down https://archive.org/details/wild-at-heart-clip-dern-dafoe-2 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Quite literally... this is on my screen right now. I'm running with the key as the node with graph/subject/predicate, and the value as the object. For most attributes, they are human readable. For other nodes, they are UUIDv4. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I've long been aware that intellectually timid/lazy folks whine about semantic triples, and yet they overload keys with semantic information. If you do the hard work of the knowledge graph first, you can eventually arrive at concise and powerful key-value pairs and get both worlds. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy yes npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy There must be a label for somebody that starts a paren but doesn't finish, and another for somebody that notices and comments about it, and another for nested parens and even brackets surrounding that. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Watch her rule (a song off my second favorite album of hers... very close, very close. Speaking of Dylan... would have loved to have witnessed his "I don't believe you. You're a liar" conflict concert over his new electric sound and heckle of "Judas!" npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Don't interrupt the sorrow npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The best part of my walks is the children playing in public parks. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Sometimes elegance is simple. Sometimes "elegance is refusal". npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy For the Nostr crowd, the infrastructure problem is acknowledged. There is still a bit of fantasy in how it is addressed, but compared to a typical streaming service consumer, the understanding is much more sophisticated. This is also the Achilles heel of Bitcoin, in my mind, and why eventually culture will shepherd the infrastructure to centralized control for transactions. Like the WWW, the capability is there, but the instances end up matching cultural priorities. Trace the pragmatic financial motivations as we approach 21 million. Back to Nostr: The *crazy* thing is that the simple version of relays and simple signatures to validate events is exactly what we need, in my measure, for freedom from the infrastructure, but it is embedded in a culture where dev leaders all wannabe a typical social media app instead of a Scuttlebutt style "hey... in port. need water. what's the scuttlebutt today? what can I do to help." Along those lines I do appreciate Coracle more and more. Some of verbiricha/giorgio's work seems related and useful. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy You can see both the explosion and shift in culture around 2012. This was when the WWW showed its capability for collective intelligence. At the same time opportunists were figuring out how to capture and hijack the wealth for themselves. The story is not over. The tech is free; the power shift is a harder problem. The infrastructure for collaboration is harder still, but unacknowledged. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Kobayashi Maru npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Some directly, some inferred, yes. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The more I think about it, the more a cultural change to facilitating adaption pathways, rather than being self-appointed center stage silver-bullet tech overlords of the biosphere, makes sense. Don't overthink nature. She will find a way. With this cultural shift, we might tag along. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I see the truth of what you are saying. I have no trouble with criticism, and when I do get it, it is great to have. With my technical stuff as I'm feeling my way through this, absolutely. I've received a few useful bits... thinking back, @nprofile…tl66 gave me some feedback, as did @nprofile…xvky , and I've used that. I'm human. I can get wadded up sometimes; however, if somebody takes the time to think about what I'm saying, actually reads what I wrote, and offers some criticism, that is gold. I wasn't very clear (or perhaps confused, or perhaps just wrong). My main point was that my approach of sharing any/all with an untargetted audience made me noisy and defeated the benefit of sharing. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy GM npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Sharing as I learned, particularly with my weird take and requirements, made me very noisy. I alienate folks quickly. The academics see my flaws (although, TBF, a small percentage of those flaws are features that they can't see through their training). The regular folks see me as clankerish noise, which is quite counter-productive, since they are my audience. Academics don't need my work. They are quite comfortable. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Finally, before I STFU, my biggest mistake was sharing as I learned. I'm still learning. I wasn't a developer when I started. I had to figure that out. I knew nothing about knowledge graphs. I only knew Gane and Sarson DFDs were uniquely powerful yet simple. The absolute best guide is tracing simple programs to see where I'm failing in my understanding. Modern software ecosystems and tools hide the truth, particularly within an ecosystem of tools meant to deal with a giant knowledge graph: WWW. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy A huge mistake I've made is trying to explain the design of knowledge graphs up front to non-academic folks. The difference between attributes, classes, relations, and instances is something that I am finally grasping after 7 years of immersion. Further, I use a foreign atomic particle of knowledge graphs that is a morphed semantic triple, so not even academics understand what I'm doing. It was bonkers and futile to try. It must be a working app first, something that is recognizable and useful. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The last (and only) time I was on that sidewalk was August of '85. I looked similar to you in stature. I had a really thin gold tone digintal watch. I was doing a presentation of a General Automation Pick OS system out of a traveling showroom in a Bluebird motorhome. Yup. I originated bringing an aging minicomputer OS to businesses that should have purchased IBM PCs. I should have paid attention to what they were doing at Arpanet, eh? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Truth. Teslas are bonkers insane, and not in the same ballpark. What is even crazier is that I'd trust the Tesla engineering better over time than the pretend-to-be-Teslas. Musk gets shit done, stuff that is big. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Every single Nostr client acts differently, I swear. As I was told by a Nostr dev once, the only thing that really holds is NIP-01. This link comes up better: https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgpvnpkw9rv925hzvqajkta6frqm6n48refvsaupxpmqlku7mz4kczyzdzz45j2hg28208tuw79exgs0ymutjkzky87g4janmtrqfme4v86q4fp2s npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Also, the LLM bit is mainly on social media. I imagine that IRL, a conversation with you and some others on Nostr would run a bit more like My Dinner With Andre. Social media (which Nostr is) lends itself to the LLM bit out of necessity. So, you will see things like "boomer" "autist" "doomer" "mastabatory circle jerk clanker". These are tags to help the LLM engine match/align to interact on social media. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'm having my own little chuckle here on the sidelines thinking about federating with atproto and your own PDS in a sovereign way (it uses Merkle trees). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The text doesn't matter. You wouldn't read it. Not being an asshole, just pragmatic. My point was the main interaction I got was by a handle called Dobby Does Doom, backing your slotting me as a doomer in your own particular LLM as you look at the world and match your team. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://image.nostr.build/3aee73d02305d154d7782dfcef22e0dbbfa6d1ec963bb8879be4a8ca2aa784fa.jpg npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy @nprofile…52e5 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy We can build a social network with just signed JSON? Hold my beer. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy If you scroll my profile and figure I'm a bot... just gotta say, WTF? Anyway, I scrolled yours, and one of my favorite Carlin routines is this one: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I didn't vet the quote... no alarm bells went off. Oh my, that would be funny if it was fake. Seems real. Gah! npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Saw this in one of my other social media feeds. Different topic, but some good thread intersects. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Not wrong, TBH. One thing I like about Nostr is you see a high percentage of posts from lesswrong.com. It isn't your normal social media crowd. But, still, there is an overriding subculture. This forms an algo that filters doomers like me. (I'm really an optimist... I manage, in face of the science/data/analysis). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy My point is that humans are thriving just fine, us and our livestock. We are killing it! I have zero doubts about our success here. We have displaced almost all mammals. I've never eaten bugs, but there is no shortage of livestock. I eat meat. I don't care if you do or not. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Humans and their livestock FTW https://xkcd.com/1338/ npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy It is odd to take an example model, go counter to how the author of the model used it, and say people are brainwashed for not using your version of the model from the perspective of your view of physics. It is Schrödinger's model. It worked a certain way to make a point. It wasn't his science, just illustrative.
