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Is a series of tubes a sufficient abstract definition of the Internet? I'm not trying to be pedantic; rather, I'm asking myself what would a good abstract (lite

by dmos62 8y ago

Is a series of tubes a sufficient abstract definition of the Internet? I'm not trying to be pedantic; rather, I'm asking myself what would a good abstract (literary) definition of internet be? The minimal and maximally general definition that distinguishes internet from, say, the animal blood vessel system or a plumbing system (or youtube (joke)) and other things that fit the definition of series of tubes. Having never thought about this before, I'm still surprised that this question bewilders me a bit. I guess I don't know that much about the internet.

EmpirePhoenix 8y ago
A Traffic net in a city, but every car is forced by traffic lights where it has to turn based on it's target address that is printed on its hood
- DonHopkins 8y ago
  That't not unlike how the dynamic adaptive local traffic routing works in the procedural Distributed City Generation rule for the Moveable Feast Machine. Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc >A rough video demo of Trent R. Small's procedural city generation dynamics in the Movable Feast Machine simulator. See http://nm8.us/q http://nm8.us/q for more information. Apologies for the poor audio! Here's the fascinating paper that describes exactly how that works: Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture, by Trent Small. https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pdf https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pd... >Abstract: Local routing is a problem which most of us face on a daily basis as we move around the cities we live in. This study proposes several routing methods based on road signs in a procedurally generated city which does not assume knowledge of global city structure and shows its overall efficiency in a variety of dense city environments. We show that techniques such as Intersection-Canalization allow for this method to be feasible for routing information arbitrarily on an architecture with limited resources.
irishsultan 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
- dmos62 8y ago
  Oh my goodness. > It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. I didn't realise this was a pop reference, thanks.

by dmos62 8y ago

EmpirePhoenix 8y ago

A Traffic net in a city, but every car is forced by traffic lights where it has to turn based on it's target address that is printed on its hood

DonHopkins 8y ago
That't not unlike how the dynamic adaptive local traffic routing works in the procedural Distributed City Generation rule for the Moveable Feast Machine. Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc >A rough video demo of Trent R. Small's procedural city generation dynamics in the Movable Feast Machine simulator. See http://nm8.us/q http://nm8.us/q for more information. Apologies for the poor audio! Here's the fascinating paper that describes exactly how that works: Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture, by Trent Small. https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pdf https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pd... >Abstract: Local routing is a problem which most of us face on a daily basis as we move around the cities we live in. This study proposes several routing methods based on road signs in a procedurally generated city which does not assume knowledge of global city structure and shows its overall efficiency in a variety of dense city environments. We show that techniques such as Intersection-Canalization allow for this method to be feasible for routing information arbitrarily on an architecture with limited resources.

irishsultan 8y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

dmos62 8y ago
Oh my goodness. > It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. I didn't realise this was a pop reference, thanks.