Ivan Reese
02/11/2023, 9:27 PMJason Morris
02/12/2023, 6:51 AMwtaysom
02/12/2023, 9:42 AMChristopher Shank
02/12/2023, 5:59 PMJason Morris
02/12/2023, 8:30 PMIvan Reese
02/12/2023, 8:37 PMJason Morris
02/12/2023, 9:00 PMLu Wilson
02/13/2023, 4:19 PMIvan Reese
02/13/2023, 6:43 PMDoes the world really need a paper that says "there's no silver bullet"I think so? If there's a wave of hucksterism that's whipping people into a frenzy, it's helpful to have someone put their reputation on the line and say "Web3 is bullshit. All crypto stuff is a scam. The blockchain has never been used for anything good, and likely won't be for at least a decade."
Lu Wilson
02/13/2023, 6:48 PMIvan Reese
02/13/2023, 6:54 PMLu Wilson
02/13/2023, 7:07 PMPersonal Dynamic Media
02/15/2023, 12:12 AMIvan Reese
02/15/2023, 2:02 AMPersonal Dynamic Media
02/15/2023, 5:27 AMGarth Goldwater
02/26/2023, 2:18 AMAlso, text IS graphical. It consists of graphics that we spend our entire childhood and adolescence mastering and connecting with deep semantic structure. The utility, flexibility, and expressive power of plaintext representations are extremely high, and personally I think one of the challenges of implementing graphical programming is that one is competing with a medium as powerful and expressive as text.YES! I donât know why we donât talk about this more! Spacing, collection of similar methods, naming_conventions, line length limits, syntax highlighting, and splitting or merging files are all examples of basically graphic design and visual hierarchy (in addition to other things). In fact, the use of folder hierarchies could be an argument that all of our projects are at least somewhat spatial. Further than that: a program file is a map from instruction order to time, which we represent spatially when weâre working by ordering our programs. We have function arguments immediately follow function invocations. The most common form of argument passing uses the horizontal access of text to communicate inclusion with paired characters ((), [], {}) and we even claim those characters can be divided into âleftâ and ârightâ brackets!! I think one reason this argument sticks around for so long is that nothing is âinherently spatialâ. Atoms are just mathematical models. Maybe they represent something that exist in spaceâbut when we refer to the model, you could argue that. i donât know. Theyâre more inherently a model of mass and charge than they are of space. The bottom line is that no one has a direct line to realityâwe have human brains that get trained up from an early age to prioritize processing a huge number of vitally important experiences by arranging that data spatiallyâwhether vision, touch, proprioception, pain, sound, balance, or emotive feelings etc! Who cares if programs are inherently spatial? Our brains are highly likely to think of them that way by default, and tremendously more efficient at processing and thinking about things that way. I do think that weâll be able to find more than one near-perfect mapping between space and programs, but given our neuro/experiential/ergonomic advantage we have absolutely no reason to tolerate the level of hostility to people devoting time and energy to leveling up our visual metaphors just because the chips arenât in on a thousands-year-old debate that boils down to semantics at its most base level and spiritual contemplation at its most rewarding! We have the moral imperative to do our best to empower the creative potential of everyone as quickly as we can before our civilization fries or bombs or sedates itself into a dark age in pursuit of private profit! howâs that for demagoguery lol
wtaysom
02/26/2023, 11:16 AMIvan Reese
02/26/2023, 4:50 PMChristopher Shank
02/26/2023, 9:05 PMMarcel Weiher
03/05/2023, 1:59 PM