Rob Walling started to notice a pattern emerging among the pool of bootstrappers (BootStrapping) who were able to successfully replace their income, buy back their time, and quit their jobs... I call it The StairStep Approach... (more)

Cyc (pronounced /ˈsaɪk/ SYKE) is a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) project that aims to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic concepts and rules about how the world works. Hoping to capture common sense knowledge, Cyc focuses on implicit knowledge. The project began in July 1984 at MCC and was developed later by the Cycorp company... By 2002, Cyc was described as having "consumed $60 million and 600 person-years of effort from programmers, philosophers and others—collectively known as Cyclists—who have been codifying what Douglas Lenat calls 'consensus reality' and entering it into a massive database... The knowledge base is divided into microtheories (claims?). Unlike the knowledge base as a whole, each microtheory must be free from monotonic contradictions. Each microtheory is a first-class object in the Cyc ontology; it has a name that is a regular constant. The concept names in Cyc are CycL terms or constants... An inference engine is a computer program that tries to derive answers from a knowledge base. The Cyc inference engine performs general logical deduction.[9] It also performs inductive reasoning, statistical machine learning and symbolic machine learning, and abductive reasoning... A Semantic Web version of OpenCyc was available starting in 2008, but ending sometime after 2016... The Cyc project has been described as "one of the most controversial endeavors of the artificial intelligence history".[26] Catherine Havasi, CEO of Luminoso, says that Cyc is the predecessor project to IBM Watson.[27] Machine-learning scientist Pedro Domingos refers to the project as a "catastrophic failure" for the unending amount of data required to produce any viable results and the inability for Cyc to evolve on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc (more)

The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce - by Umberto Eco, Thomas Albert Sebeok et al (more)

The Knoesphere project was an influential 1983 research initiative in AI and hypertext co-authored by prominent computer scientists Douglas Lenat and David McDonald. The Goal: It was an early attempt to construct an expert system with encyclopedic knowledge. (more)

magazine that became Mondo2k. Also pural of Reality Hacker.

Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered CyberPunk topics such as Virtual Reality and Smart Drug-s. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired Mag.[1] (more)

Digital Philosophy (DP) is a new way of thinking about the fundamental workings of processes in nature. DP is an atomic theory carried to a logical extreme where all quantities in nature are finite and discrete. This means that, theoretically, any quantity can be represented exactly by an integer. Further, DP implies that nature harbors no infinities, infinitesimals, continuities, or locally determined random variables. (more)

Edward Fredkin (October 2, 1934 – June 13, 2023)[1] was an American computer scientist, physicist and businessman who was an early pioneer of digital physics.[2] Fredkin's primary contributions included work on reversible computing and cellular automata. While Konrad Zuse's book, Calculating Space (1969), mentioned the importance of reversible computation, the Fredkin gate represented the essential breakthrough.[3] In more recent work, he used the term digital philosophy (DP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin

aka Mondo2k

DefaultFriend posts: Load and Run High-tech Paganism-Digital Polytheism. The following essay is not mine. It was co-authored by Tim Leary and Eric Gullichsen and published in 1988 in Reality Hackers, a short-lived Bay Area magazine that would eventually rebrand as Mondo 2000, becoming the defining publication of early-90s digital counterculture. (more)

Jim McCarthy book (Pattern Language?) (2002) ISBN:0201604566 - "The Core" (v1.0) (more)

Fun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment".... Although its etymology is uncertain,[1] it has been speculated that it may be derived from Middle English fonne (fool) and fonnen (the one fooling the other).[3] An 18th-century meaning (still used in Orkney and Shetland[1]) was "cheat, trick, hoax", (trickster) a meaning still retained in the phrase "to make fun of"... According to Johan Huizinga, fun is "an absolutely primary category of life, familiar to everybody at a glance right down to the animal level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun (more)

see Nazism

National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism (/ˈnɑːtsɪzəm, ˈnæ-/[1]), is the ideology and set of practices associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party, Nazi Germany, and other far-right groups. Usually characterized as a form of Fascism that incorporates scientific Racism and antisemitism, Nazism's development was influenced by German nationalism (especially Pan-Germanism), the Völkisch movement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged during the Weimar Republic after Germany's defeat in First World War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism (more)

Johan Huizinga (Dutch: [ˈjoːɦɑn ˈɦœyzɪŋɣaː]; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history... Huizinga had an aesthetic approach to history, where art and spectacle played an important part. His most famous work is The Autumn of the Middle Ages (also released as The Waning of the Middle Ages or Autumntide of the Middle Ages) (1919). Other works include Erasmus (1924) and Homo Ludens (1938). In the latter book he discussed the possibility that play is the primary formative element in human culture. Huizinga also published books on American history and Dutch history in the 17th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Huizinga (more)

Homo Ludens is a book originally published in Dutch in 1938[2] by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga.[3] It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society.[4] Huizinga suggests that play is primary to and a necessary (though not sufficient) condition of the generation of culture. The Latin word ludens is the present active participle of the verb ludere, which itself is cognate with the noun ludus. Ludus has no direct equivalent in English, as it simultaneously refers to sport, play, school, and practice.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (/ˈɡɜːrdʒiɛf/; Russian: Гео́ргий Ива́нович Гурджи́ев, tr. Geórgy Ivánovich Gurdzhíev, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪd͡ʑ ɡʊrd͡ʐˈʐɨ(j)ɪf]; c. 1866–1877 – 29 October 1949)[2] was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Gyumri, Armenia (then Alexandropol, Russian Empire).[3] Gurdjieff taught that most humans do not possess a unified consciousness and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff described a method attempting to do so, calling the discipline "The Work"[4] (connoting "work on oneself") or "the System".[5] According to his principles and instructions,[6] Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness unites the methods of the fakir, monk and yogi, and thus his student P. D. Ouspensky referred to it as the "Fourth Way". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff cf renaissance man? (more)

My consulting work as a Principal Consultant at Bredemeyer Consulting, ranges from business and engineering strategy, to system design including design incubator work in early stages, to architecture assessment and renewal for legacy systems. We coach architects and design teams, help document product and architecture design for teams moving through rapid transitions, facilitate technology strategy and/or architectural design sessions and reviews, and more. We also help design design (e.g., design practices, organization design to support complex system development) and we help design technical leadership and architect development programs, with a combination of training and mentoring. We draw on substantive experience working with engineering leaders as they have taken on various complex system and leadership challenges. We also draw on significant work in our field, including Team Topologies; various strategy approaches such as Wardley Maps, and canvases; value streams and value network mapping; stressor impact mapping; DDD and its related innovations such as EventStorming and Domain Storytelling; UML and C4; work in resilience engineering and observability; and more. And we integrate work in system thinking, complex systems, and sociotechnical systems theory. Further, we make our own innovative contributions, based on our research and work with clients. https://www.ruthmalan.com/ (more)

Are web Browsers starting to fully block non-SSL sites? (more)

Thomas Preston-Werner (born May 27, 1979)[3] is an American software developer and billionaire entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the free and open-source software community, most prominently in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives. He is best known as a co-founder and former CEO of GitHub, a web-based Git repository hosting service, which he co-founded in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and P. J. Hyett.[4] He resigned from GitHub in 2014 when an internal investigation concluded that he and his wife harassed an employee.[5] Preston-Werner is also the creator of the avatar service Gravatar,[6] the TOML configuration file format,[3] the static site generator software Jekyll,[7][8] and the Semantic Versioning Specification (SemVer).[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Preston-Werner