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.
24 Mar 2020 11 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Constructed languages are an interesting field. Most of us have heard of Esperanto. But there are plenty others, each designed for specific purposes and goals. Lojban, for example, has been designed with the purpose of eliminating irregularities or a...
23 Mar 2020 34 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
I've previously mentioned Moldbug around Urbit, since Curtis Yarvin (who uses the pseudonym/pen name Mencius Moldbug in his now well known — at least in some circles anyway, political essays and blog posts.. oh, and just curiously, here is where Menc...
23 Mar 2020 10 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
I was recently looking for a few McLuhan quotes for a piece I'm doing and since I haven't read/re-read McLuhan in ages I had forgotten just how much more powerful and relevant he gets as time goes by. So, decided to share what I picked and saved (muc...
23 Mar 2020 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Aside from functional programming (Haskell, Scala, OCaml..) picking up momentum and getting adopted across a range of industries and business (and appearing to be particularly well suited for financial applications, hence why Cardano went for Haskell...
23 Mar 2020 7 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
In this exciting era of re-designing and re-architecting the connected world, inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee has been working on a project that "aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data own...
20 Mar 2020 4 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Collapse OS is an interesting project whose goal is to build an open source operating system designed to work with ubiquitous and easily scavenged electronic components in a post-apocalyptic Fallout-like future where consumer electronics might be a t...
19 Mar 2020 4 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Underscore protocol (_prtcl) puts together the core ideas behind the World Wide Web, Git and Linked-Data in creating the concept of Evolving Entities ("Evees"). This is an effort that falls under the category of what is known as ontology engineering...
17 Mar 2020 1 minute read 5 comments rhyzom
Tornado.cash is an addition to the Ethereum arsenal of tools allowing transaction privacy and anonymity in a non-custodial fashion, making use of zkSNARKs and breaking the on-chain link between recipient and destination addresses. It makes use of a c...
17 Mar 2020 2 minute read 6 comments rhyzom
Just came across this the other day. It is precisely what I had been looking for for some time now and had been thinking of perhaps trying to put together some such thing myself (since federated alternatives to Twitter and Facebook, such as Mastodon...
14 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
DeFi lending protocols seem to be picking up momentum as the total value locked in DeFi contracts surpassed $1bn recently couple of days ago. However, besides Maker (which forms pretty much the foundation other DeFi products build upon), most other d...
