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.
28 Jan 2020 8 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Just read through this published paper from the Journal of Cliodynamics. Cliodynamics (/ˌkliːoʊdaɪˈnæmɪks/) is a transdisciplinary area of research integrating cultural evolution, economic history/cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical model...
28 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
HoloFuel the Currency, and HoloFuel the Transactor Front-end App HoloFuel is the micro-currency powering the Holo network. It's a holochain-based currency design that constitutes a contractual service obligation redeemable for hosting. Designed as a...
28 Jan 2020 2 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
honeycombOS is an embedded Linux distro designed for IOTA nodes, clients and tangle-related tools (and supported by the IOTA ecosystem development fund). Based on Yocto's reference distro Poky and built using OpenEmbedded's build framework and cross-...
28 Jan 2020 5 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Hummingbot is this really neat open source piece of software (with an interesting background/history) for decentralized market making and automating of trading strategies by Coinalpha Inc. Originally written in Python, but subsequently re-written in...
26 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myt...
![Counterinduction: The Productive Practice of Going Against Common Sense [Useful heuristics and tools of thought]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/103329.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=2898e87ad9014b7c29b4fffffa98b9e9893e5e99544d233f321557c01d617286)
26 Jan 2020 7 minute read 7 comments rhyzom
"The essence of any 21st-century reaction is the unity of these two forces: the modern engineering mentality, and the great historical legacy of antique, classical and Victorian pre-democratic thought. The adept, to achieve reactionary enlightenment...
25 Jan 2020 5 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
The Bitcoin code base is more than 100 thousand lines of mostly C++ code, where NXT (the first working implementation of a proof-of-stake system) is more than 45 thousand lines of Java and all the parts/components that make up the system(s) are enme...
24 Jan 2020 4 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
William S. Burroughs was a bit of a weirdo without a doubt. Highly intelligent and very unusual, in pursuit of his own strange goals and searches. He had this awesome talent of telling the truth through lies (coincidentally, this is what was Plato's...
![Cut-up Method: Tzara, Burroughs and Approaching/Tapping Texts and Meaning Non-Linearly to Reveal Hidden and Non-Intended Meanings [Conceptual Heuristics and Tools]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/102518.jpeg?action=fit&ar=1&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=875a0c99d10cf2a4fb050a6b4e8139320aeaa8a44eeea49d9deac50ddaef5dcf)
24 Jan 2020 6 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” “First we build the tools, then they build us.” “All words, in every language, are metaphors.” “There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness...
24 Jan 2020 3 minute read 11 comments rhyzom
Tether, everybody's favorite gang of variously assorted scumbags and their networked criminal associations, appears to be marching on in advancing and revolutionizing this space, lol. I won't go again in all the juicy details regarding Tether and the...
