alankay1

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by alankay1 10y ago
I will just reply that many of my best friends wound up at SFI and I've had a long association, etc. And that -- I think you realize this -- what I was advocating is something simpler than the "Big History" idea ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
Sure
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by alankay1 10y ago
2nd Paragraph: How do they know they are even bits? How do they know the bits are supposed to be numbers? What kind of numbers? Relating to what? Etc
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by alankay1 10y ago
We had a lot of fun with Trygve and we all learned a lot. I'm glad that they've been pushing at these issues.
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by alankay1 10y ago
I don't dispute the figure, but in most cases when I say that phrase I'm trying to be hyperbolic to make a different point
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by alankay1 10y ago
It's worth thinking about what scales and what doesn't scale so well. For example, names are relatively local conventions. We could expect to have to find better ways to describe resources, or perhaps "send processes rather
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes, so think about how to make this work "nicely" in an Intergalactic Network ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
If you think about the "whole system", even if it's just a Shannon channel, what do you actually need?
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by alankay1 10y ago
How can you find it? The association between "patterns" and interpretation becomes an "object" when this is part of the larger scheme. When you've just got bits and you send them somewhere, you don't even have
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by alankay1 10y ago
"Cops need criminals" "Doctors need disease" Things have happened in the past when passionate and confident people with chops have decided to do something. These have not always correlated with "What is actually nee
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by alankay1 10y ago
It's not the learning process that is in question, but the ramifications of really extending the industrial revolution to distributing broken code. (No language has ever been more set up to allow tinkering with everything for the purpo
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by alankay1 10y ago
Answered (obliquely) elsewhere in this AMA
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by alankay1 10y ago
Could you list something to read please?
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by alankay1 10y ago
Good insights -- and check out Alex Warth's "Worlds" paper on the Viewpoints site -- this goes beyond what PIE could do with "possible worlds" reasoning and computing ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
I have every reason to like Actors! But think about scaling for a while, ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
The lack of science is because most people are not only not interested in science, but really don't understand what it is.
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes, but what should the web actually be? And how can it be gotten there, etc.
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yes
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by alankay1 10y ago
How old are you? "Old school" to me is what could be done at Parc, etc. ... (hint: quite a bit more than on this website ...)
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by alankay1 10y ago
That was a metaphorical hyperbole to attract the attention of people who think in terms of money rather than in "basic improvements to the world". The idea is that "qualitatively changing the context in a powerful way" t
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by alankay1 10y ago
Books have the same problem, and both are fixable (lots easier than the big ones we should be tending to)
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by alankay1 10y ago
Too much typing into too small apertures!
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by alankay1 10y ago
See elsewhere in this AMA
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by alankay1 10y ago
The Dynabook was/is much more of a "service idea" than a physical manifestation (there were actually 3 physical ideas for it). Today's tablets don't fulfill the service ideas.
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by alankay1 10y ago
For what?
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by alankay1 10y ago
Good question. If we are talking "real OOP", I'm not sure these days. What do other people think? Smalltalk is very long in the tooth these days, but it is still "rather object-oriented in good ways". Erlang and its
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by alankay1 10y ago
Take a nap, play music, take showers, goof off, read junk novels, etc.
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by alankay1 10y ago
Delay ...
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by alankay1 10y ago
Yikes!
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by alankay1 10y ago
Have good parents (and probably some pre-dispositions). Then be really stubborn about wanting to understand what is going on (no one else really wants you to)

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