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Some things people interested in Xanadu likely would wish to look into: https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text https://github.com/JeffreyBen
by no_identd 8y ago
Some things people interested in Xanadu likely would wish to look into:
https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text
Why?
See here:
https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text/issues/11 https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text/i...
See also here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map#RDF_relationship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map#RDF_relationship (Why the W3C didn't standardize on this, a bloody ISO standard, and instead decided to roll their own, weaker system, well... I'll leave you to boggle your mind about this one.)
See also this video by Ted Nelson on transcopyright:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3l7CpnpyGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3l7CpnpyGw
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns (Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18118798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18118798)
See also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbler_(Project_Xanadu) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbler_(Project_Xanadu)
Which, as an addressing scheme, strongly resembles the enumeration scheme Niklas Luhmann used for his infamous Zettelkasten, which I'd strongly encourage you to look into if Xanadu interests you at all.
And to stick with the Zettelkasten comparision for a moment, see also "Martha Stewart’s File Cabinet" here:
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/AmSci-2001-11-Hayes-ternary.pdf http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/AmS...
(Note that the information, like most information, about "Radix economy" [an extremely ill-defined concept] given there by Hayes ignores the fact that Balanced Ternary in fact has a higher capacity than unsigned ternary, for a demonstration of this basically ignored-everywhere fact, see here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090312094241/http://abhijit.info/tristate/tristate.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090312094241/http://abhijit.in..., and before you think that page looks weird, here, have Marvin Minsky commenting positively on it: https://archive.fo/gL2Bv; https://archive.fo/gL2Bv; OR simply try to think about how digit sums & digital roots work in Balanced Ternary vs. in Ternary)
Why bring up "Martha Stewart's File Cabinet"? Because one of the mistakes with the Xanadu Tumbler scheme consists, in my opinion, of the fact that it doesn't use balanced ternary for the addressing, making the addresses unnecessarily long AND more difficult to handle in general. (Cf. the properties of the file cabinet as outlined by Hayes in the article)
See also here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfilade_(Xanadu) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfilade_(Xanadu)
And here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docuverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docuverse
My current hope for a Xanadu-like system rests, in a way, on this new feature of Pijul 0.11, which basically "solves" transclusion & versioning:
https://discourse.pijul.org/t/patching-patches/212 https://discourse.pijul.org/t/patching-patches/212
For a newer status on the above issue, see here:
https://discourse.pijul.org/t/preparing-pijul-0-11-0/203 https://discourse.pijul.org/t/preparing-pijul-0-11-0/203
- mimixco 8y agoAll of these implementation methods that Ted proposed have failed. Mimix will not include transcopyright, tumblers, or enfilades. It will, however, address many of the original goals of Xanadu and some Ted didn't think of.