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by infinite8s 3y ago
Bret plans on publishing everything this Spring - https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1753116042254340526
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Yep, was definitely aware. It just seems like of all the projects at HARC, this is the only one that branched out from Alan's earlier ideas. The set of papers on https://worrydream.com/refs/ gives a good idea of s
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Thanks, do you have any of it publicly available or would you prefer an email?
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Bret Victor's DynamicLand seems to be a direct descendent of many of these ideas. RealTalk's reactive DB combines Linda tuplespace ideas with LISP 71 pattern matching and reactive semantics. Each Realtalk object is self contained
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Agreed about the Quora interface. I have a Jupyter notebook that scrapes all of Alan's answers and comments into a json database - he's answered a lot of questions!
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Sadly the work from the STEPS project seems to have disappeared, especially the Frank software he used in some talks. That looks like it would have been very interesting to play with.
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by infinite8s 3y ago
It's also a limitation of human-human communication, and why nation's have ambassadors (who presumably have a shared context from which to start from when dealing with a foreign nation).
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CSP, a high performance reactive stream processing library(github.com)
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by infinite8s 3y ago
It's a bit unfortunate that people can't look past the projections and the dot frames/QR codes. Those are just a means to an end, which is trying to simulate a world where all objects have the ability to compute and can be ea
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by infinite8s 3y ago
It's a bit unfortunate that people can't look past the projections and the dot frames/QR codes. Those are just a means to an end, which is trying to simulate a world where all objects have the ability to compute and can be ea
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Bret does plan on publishing everything soon - https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1753116042254340526
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Is computing good enough as a literacy that anyone can use it to model complex ideas? Computers are simulators and can be used to model almost anything, sadly most people just use it to model old media (images, movies, text documents). As a
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Makes you wonder how the mythos that Xerox dropped the ball with PARC is so pervasive in our culture, or that it was net unprofitable. Probably the early scrappy 'garage engineering' mythology surrounding Apple plays into it?
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by infinite8s 3y ago
"It is no exaggeration to regard this as the most fundamental idea in programming: The evaluator, which determines the meaning of expressions on a piece of paper, is just another piece of paper." --SICP
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by infinite8s 3y ago
The author (Ean Wallace) also went on to co-found Figma, which was just sold to Adobe for 20B - https://madebyevan.com/
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by infinite8s 3y ago
What sort of tradeoffs do you need to deal with that make Seastar inappropriate for your workloads?
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Only my kids love whole fat milk (it's kinda scary how much of it they drink, but then being vegetarian it does provide a decent amount of protein and fat). I just use it for coffee.
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by infinite8s 3y ago
As is everything in biochemistry, the absorption rate sets the response. 5g of sugar that can only be digested over the course of hours is much different than 5g of sugar that can be digested in minutes.
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Fruit juice is not much better than soda when it comes sugar content. The only beverages allowed in our house are water, whole fat milk, and alcohol (because of course us parents get an exception).
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by infinite8s 3y ago
I was explaining why capital preservation is important with this (albeit) dumb example. Obviously someone with $500M is going to be a bit more sophisticated about it (there are reasons hedge funds that return 15-20% annualized charge 2 &amp
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by infinite8s 3y ago
> If I won the lottery, and I just sent, say, a $500M check to a regular discount broker and bought an index fund, is someone going to take it away from me? Are the wealth management divisions of every podunk bank and credit union there
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by infinite8s 3y ago
That's the original quote? That's the opposite of "you can't manage what you can't measure."
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by infinite8s 3y ago
We did, didn't we? Sadly most intellectual loves aren't as monetarily rewarding as programming has been for the past three decades.
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by infinite8s 3y ago
> There are worrying signs about that we are about to repeat the 1920s, 1930s then the 1940s The rest of this comment was not where I thought you'd go with this. You realize the creation of the SEC was a direct result of the stock m
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by infinite8s 3y ago
There is a document link at the end of the video that goes into more detail: https://dynamicland.org/links/2023-04-27 An interesting side note is that the document was itself prepared using DynamicLand. Truly excited t
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by infinite8s 3y ago
What parts are clockless?
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by infinite8s 3y ago
The C memory model underlying all modern processors does not scale. Most of the time your cpu is sitting idle.
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Communal computing for 21st century science [pdf](dynamicland.org)
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by infinite8s 3y ago
It's not quite a pressure differential, but a chemical potential differential (but thinking of it as a 'pressure' gives a useful mental model).
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by infinite8s 3y ago
That's because you are thinking equivalent in terms of results. I'm thinking equivalent in terms of ambition. The point I was making is that doing the equivalent level of 'crazy' work (for it was crazy, the idea of givin

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