A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Mind Traffic Control is Dead!
Long live Mind Traffic Control! No New Year’s Resolutions or even questions this year. But as an honorary Brazilian, my new year doesn’t really start until after carnival, so now would be the time for it. However here’s a quick update. The answer to the old MTC question is now resolved for me. It’s time…
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RIP Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
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Communications Design Group
Huh?!? I actually had no idea. Following up that last Jonathan Edwards video I discovered that SAP are funding a PARC-style research lab run by Alan Kay (!!!!!), who has hired Vi Hart, Bret Victor and Edwards among others, to go and do their crazy software art, reinvention of programming stuff. More : SAP Looks…
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Meet OhmBot
I’ve been using Telegram with a bunch from the local hackspace. And we’ve been playing with Telegram bots. It’s an interesting genre. So here’s my first attempt : OhmBot, a bot that knows Ohm’s Law and can do calculations from it.
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What are you thinking, Dave?
What is it that makes the web so great? Linking. What is it that silos will not do. Same thing. Linking. … Here’s the problem. Linking hasn’t gotten an upgrade in many years.That’s not to say an upgrade isn’t possible, it is. But it takes two (or more) to make it happen. I can’t link to anything in a…
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What’s Like RSS? (OPML version)
For a while I’ve thought Dave Winer’s What’s Like RSS? question needed to be developed further. Perhaps some kind of outline / catalogue of open formats that are well-established, have no “owner” but multiple existing stake-holders, and are unlikely to change at any time in the near future. Anyway, I thought one should exist, so…
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Matt Mullenweg on Calypso
Matt Mullenweg makes it clearer. Calypso is a new js-based, single-app. admin application that talks to the standard WP back-end via its ReST API. And it’s open-sourced.
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The new WordPress is Calypso?
Source: Are You Affected By WordPress Calypso? | PJ Brunet | LinkedIn Brunet thinks it’s not going to affect free WP users. Maybe. What would, I think, be a radical move, would be to recreate the PHP model with node.js. That is, rather like VB.NET embedded VB and JSP embedded Java in HTML templates, to…
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WordPress.com and App for Mac
Did WordPress just translate itself to node.js? Big question, will they also open-source this code-base for users to host on their own sites? If so, this is probably the beginning of the end for PHP? WP is certainly the only PHP application I run. And probably the most widely used PHP program in the wild.…
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