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by mtraven 21d ago
Same here, for at least 13 years. So have many others https://hyperphor.com/ammdi/AI-risk-%E2%89%A1-capitalism
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by mtraven 2y ago
"You know about death...that it's just a change, not an end." – The Log Lady
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ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot(arxiv.org)
75 points by mtraven 2y ago|24 comments
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by mtraven 2y ago
I worked on Cyc as a visiting student for a couple of summers; built some visualization tools to help people navigate around the complex graph. But I never was quite sold on the project, some tangential learnings here: https://hy
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by mtraven 3y ago
I don't like working on killing machines either. But we shouldn't forget that the internet and basically all of computation originated out of defense research. That might be good or bad, but arguably the field was more innovative
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by mtraven 3y ago
Seriously, WTF? The whole point of Emacs is that it is a radically customizable platform, and if you don't like the behavior of some feature you can modify it yourself with a few lines of Lisp. Forking the whole project over a change t
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by mtraven 3y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: yes Willing to relocate: possible Technologies: Clojure, Java, SQL, Python, R, Dataviz, Typescript, Spark... Résumé/CV: https://hyperphor.com/mike-travers-resume.html Email:
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by mtraven 3y ago
I founded the original unix-haters list that the book is based off of. What I say these days: Unix went from the worst operating system around, to the best, without getting appreciably better. Not entirely true. But the Unix model of comput
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by mtraven 3y ago
Nice resource, but it desperately needs an index or full-text search feature. I grew up on Whole Earth Catalog (and Ted Nelson's Computer Lib / Dream Machines, another great counterculture publication of the era). Certainly opened
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by mtraven 3y ago
No advertisements, just reviews of things they thought were good.
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by mtraven 3y ago
That's a much better name actually.
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by mtraven 4y ago
Sad news. I had the honor of participating in a workshop he organized on Inconsistency Robustness in 2011, that was an interesting gathering. https://www.amazon.com/Inconsistency-Robustness-Studies-Logi...
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by mtraven 4y ago
Logical Versus Analogical or Symbolic Versus Connectionist or Neat Versus Scruffy: https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/aimagazine/article/view/894 (from 1991, and a response to the revival of connection
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by mtraven 5y ago
Don't think that's quite right, TOPS-20 was actually a fork of the Tenex code and so was pretty similar. Not sure what the relationship with TOPS-10 was.
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by mtraven 5y ago
Not really, I was more interested in hacking than coursework, so that's what I did. But I dropped back in some years later when the Media Lab started up, finished up my BS and got a couple of grad degrees.
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by mtraven 5y ago
I may be the only one here old enough to have worked on Tenex... around 1978 or so, I dropped out of MIT and went to work at BBN and did some extensions to Tenex / TOPS-20, including as I remember some device drivers for the IBM-style
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Vaguely, a Scratch-like UI for data visualization(vagueness.herokuapp.com)
4 points by mtraven 5y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 5y ago
Really nice work, especially for someone pretty new to development!
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by mtraven 6y ago
http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ Carl Sagan: Cannabis enables nonmusicians to know a little about what it is like to be a musician, and nonartists to grasp the joys of art. But I am neither an artist nor a musician. Wha
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The Child as Hacker(cell.com)
1 points by mtraven 6y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 6y ago
Spurious comparisons to Nazis are a favorite tactic of his -- he famously compared Obama to Hitler because they both had enthusiastic crowds for their speeches. It's a mystery to me why anybody takes this man seriously.
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by mtraven 6y ago
> One difference in philosophy of Lisp and Haskell is that the latter makes liberal use of many tiny functions that do one single task. This is known as composability, or the UNIX philosophy. Have you ever looked at a Unix man page? And
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by mtraven 6y ago
And to nuke the Van Allen belts -- that one actually went forward: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/07/01/128170775/a...
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by mtraven 6y ago
I still have one of those, a hand-me-down from my father...was my first real camera.
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by mtraven 6y ago
Should include some mention of Richard Gabriel's "Habitability and Piecemeal Growth", a really good essay on this topic from almost 30 years ago... https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
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by mtraven 6y ago
http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/ Mostly quiescent at this point, and mostly about politics and religion and other non-technical matters. But since its been going for 17! years, there's enough thoughts on Lisp to int
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by mtraven 6y ago
The page seems to have vanished in the last few hours. (Whups, now it's back).
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by mtraven 7y ago
I was a grad student at the Media Lab in its early days. I was attracted not by Negroponte but by the people he managed to attract: at the time, that included Marvin Minsky, Alan Kay, and Stewart Brand, as well as some less famous but truly
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by mtraven 7y ago
Old news and not very insightful. For a deeper look, Fred Turner is the one to read: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo37...
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by mtraven 7y ago
This seems organized around the work of the radical psychiatrist RD Laing. I've admired some of writing in the past, but his theories of psychosis are considered nonsense these days. From the website: “Legacy of R.D. Laing,” Michael Gu

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