Ad hoc heuristics for approaching complex systems and the "unknown unknowns". Techne & episteme. Verum ipsum factum. In the words of Archimedes: "Give me a lever and a place to rest it... or I shall kill a hostage every hour." Rants, share-worthy pieces and occasional insights and revelations.
7 Jan 2021 6 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
From The Atlantic piece: “You have a situation now where there are many more elites fighting for the same position, and some portion of them will convert to counter-elites,” Turchin said.Donald Trump, for example, may appear elite (rich father, Whar...
6 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Seems like, as I've been myself for quite some time deliberating along similar lines, social media and social networking is becoming one of the next frontiers (beyond finance) targeted for decentralization. We've already talked about and covered in v...
28 Apr 2020 3 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
Thought I'd share.... Some of it seems pretty cool, though much of it seems very similar to Tim Berners-Lee's Solid. Either way, it shows that this paradigm is gradually picking up momentum as more people recognize the necessity. It's not really bloc...
28 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
We've covered much of the background previously, now for an example of how hApps are written. Holochain apps (hApps) consist of DNA where the logic, validation rules and behavior are defined. DNAs build from zomes which are the functional building bl...
27 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
Baseline protocol is a recently announced initiative that launched as an OASIS open source project on March 19, 2020 and is funded by the Ethereum Foundation and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, as well as supported by fourteen founding companies (a...
24 Apr 2020 3 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
Dat is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol providing public-key-addressed file archives which can be synced securely & browsed on-demand (which we mentioned briefly in another recent post on newly emerging decentralized and peer-to-peer technologi...
22 Apr 2020 11 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are actually a much more mature, flexible and important decentralization technology than is blockchain. Blockchains are actually even still centralized around a canonical ledger or the single massive replicated record...
19 Apr 2020 3 minute read 15 comments rhyzom
Aether: Self-Governing Communities With Moderator Elections Reviving Usenet for the Web 3.0 Aether is an open source platform (running as a bundled Electron stand-alone app) for self-governing communities with auditable moderation and moderator elect...
18 Apr 2020 23 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
"Computers are language machines."— Paul N. Edwards So, Holochain, as some of you are perhaps well aware, is a development framework for peer-to-peer social apps (for, broadly speaking, large-scale sense-making, coordination and distributed, colle...
13 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Am looking up various protocols, specs and RFCs in order to get a better sense of how to go about my undertaking (including things like IRC, USEnet, etc. & more 21th century things like Mastodon, Diaspora...) — here's one that's more along the lines...
