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Agreed. His demos are always impressive, but my biggest worry for him is that he's stuck in demo-land. What's sorely missing is guidance (or code) that can help
by dc443 8y ago
Agreed. His demos are always impressive, but my biggest worry for him is that he's stuck in demo-land. What's sorely missing is guidance (or code) that can help empower more people to create things like this.
But the reality is probably simpler in the sense that complex things are just that: complex, and modeling them is at least as complex, so it will always be hard, and it's only the meta-ideas that can have lasting applicable value. And he's pretty great at disseminating his meta-ideas.
As a non-academic and a web developer, if I were to publish some work of mine, I have always known that I would do it in the form of a webpage. That way, I can make it as dynamic as I need it to be.
- _pius 8y agoWhat’s sorely missing is guidance (or code) that can help empower more people to create things like this. http://worrydream.com/Tangle/ http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
- chrisco255 8y agoYeah but if you look at the code that drives those more complex examples, that is non-trivial for a non-developer.
- ljw1001 8y ago> complex things are just that: complex, and modeling them is at least as complex, so it will always be hard, I recall reading that a measure of the complexity of a thing (formally) is the shortest possible non-lossy description. This suggests that your insight is correct. The question is how much further can we go in automating parts of the descriptions.