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Showing posts with label twocultures. Show all posts
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28 November 2007
25 October 2007
Toward a unified model of information
[thoughtmesh edition w/extra links]
my whole life since
maybe 1969
i've been struggling to write
a single book
with an evershifting shape but always
a psychology text
that at least sketches an outline
of human motivation
viewed thru a literary lens
like 'the sims XVI'
in textbook form
like solace perhaps
a composition of extracts
of nuances
like brainfeathers or finnegans wake
everyman's everyhistory
like laws of form or antimath
built up elegantly
from a single bit
like a pattern language for literary patterns
like polti or roget
a classification of plots
of story skeletons
like knuth a catalog
of data structures and algorithms
like cyc
a knowledgebase of common sense
like adler's syntopicon
an inventory of philosophies
wisdom marked up for robots
like the semantic web
a hierarchy of metadata
most urgent first
a constitution
for some possible utopia
and now centered on
colored lines in spacetime
x normally longitude-space
y simply ordinary time
with one line per
true human lifestory
and now with a suggested
simple first coloring
white for happy familymembers
all alike
blue for sad
red for bad
yellow for sickly
or better
for enslaved?
my whole life since
maybe 1969
i've been struggling to write
a single book
with an evershifting shape but always
a psychology text
that at least sketches an outline
of human motivation
viewed thru a literary lens
like 'the sims XVI'
in textbook form
like solace perhaps
a composition of extracts
of nuances
like brainfeathers or finnegans wake
everyman's everyhistory
like laws of form or antimath
built up elegantly
from a single bit
like a pattern language for literary patterns
like polti or roget
a classification of plots
of story skeletons
like knuth a catalog
of data structures and algorithms
like cyc
a knowledgebase of common sense
like adler's syntopicon
an inventory of philosophies
wisdom marked up for robots
like the semantic web
a hierarchy of metadata
most urgent first
a constitution
for some possible utopia
and now centered on
colored lines in spacetime
x normally longitude-space
y simply ordinary time
with one line per
true human lifestory
and now with a suggested
simple first coloring
white for happy familymembers
all alike
blue for sad
red for bad
yellow for sickly
or better
for enslaved?
.
08 October 2007
A 'pagetype' microformat (w/optional heraldic barcodes)
[pre-amble]
say
parallel processing : arts
::
serial processing : sciences
science blindly following
a narrow incremental logical/verbal path
while art makes grand intuitive leaps
on the basis of
rich broad spatial imaginings
even the poet's words
individually reset
into the space of sounds
the novelist's
into the space of everyday life
[amble]
for the semantic web to work
someone (or some group)
has to come up with a
finite controlled vocabulary that captures
a significant portion of the
important meanings
on the web
and their intent
for microformats
is to break that task down
into manageable subtasks
by attacking
one domain of meaning
at a time
but they're having to confront
the paradox that every domain
is unruly
with a shifting core
of most-important themes
and an infinitely attenuating halo
of subordinate variations
that quickly nudge microformats
towards 'macro' territory
for which pathology i'll propose
an antidote in the form
of heraldic barcodes
that graphically/visually
symbolically/iconically
intuitively/flexibly
summarise a domain
using three principal layers:
- a narrow frame of varying thickness and color
- a background pattern
- a foreground icon
and for my
test/example/domain
i'll choose (ambitiously)
webpagetypes
with heraldicbarcode backgroundpatterns
that symbolically schematise
the distribution of info on the page
simple text as a block of grey
(embedded media colored by filetype)
a heterogeneous list
as a stack of colored bars
(narrow topical range =
narrow spectrum of colors)
uniform list-granularity =
uniform bar-size
ordering principles for lists
(alphabetical newest-1st best-1st
rhetorical didactic ontological)
indicated somehow
one edgerow of icon pixels
could be a logarithmic timeline/changelog
1st pixel = 1992-2000 (8yrs)
(black until the page's creation)
2nd = 2000-2004, 3rd = 2004-2005, 4th 2006
5th 6mos 6th 3mos 7th 45days 8th 20days
9th 10 10th 5 11th 2 12th 1
major/minor content changes
(or even changes of url)
differentiated by color
other edgerows possibly capturing
pageweight, % cruft
topical breadth, completeness, necessity
and finally a foreground icon
shaped to represent the primary
(range of) topic(s):
tech news, celeb gossip, etc
(with colorfill representing... what?)
[microformat]
and if some of this
proves less valuable
than other missing dimensions
one should
feel
this
in the belly
and tweaks should almost suggest themselves
formfields:
page-age
page-weight
% cruft
topical scope
completeness
necessity
revision-frequency
revision-intensity
revision-patterns
% original text
% copied/quoted text
% new images/audio/video/code
% copied ditto
# custom links
# link sources
granularity
ordering
say
parallel processing : arts
::
serial processing : sciences
science blindly following
a narrow incremental logical/verbal path
while art makes grand intuitive leaps
on the basis of
rich broad spatial imaginings
even the poet's words
individually reset
into the space of sounds
the novelist's
into the space of everyday life
[amble]
for the semantic web to work
someone (or some group)
has to come up with a
finite controlled vocabulary that captures
a significant portion of the
important meanings
on the web
and their intent
for microformats
is to break that task down
into manageable subtasks
by attacking
one domain of meaning
at a time
but they're having to confront
the paradox that every domain
is unruly
with a shifting core
of most-important themes
and an infinitely attenuating halo
of subordinate variations
that quickly nudge microformats
towards 'macro' territory
for which pathology i'll propose
an antidote in the form
of heraldic barcodes
that graphically/visually
symbolically/iconically
intuitively/flexibly
summarise a domain
using three principal layers:
- a narrow frame of varying thickness and color
- a background pattern
- a foreground icon
and for my
test/example/domain
i'll choose (ambitiously)
webpagetypes
with heraldicbarcode backgroundpatterns
that symbolically schematise
the distribution of info on the page
simple text as a block of grey
(embedded media colored by filetype)
a heterogeneous list
as a stack of colored bars
(narrow topical range =
narrow spectrum of colors)
uniform list-granularity =
uniform bar-size
ordering principles for lists
(alphabetical newest-1st best-1st
rhetorical didactic ontological)
indicated somehow
one edgerow of icon pixels
could be a logarithmic timeline/changelog
1st pixel = 1992-2000 (8yrs)
(black until the page's creation)
2nd = 2000-2004, 3rd = 2004-2005, 4th 2006
5th 6mos 6th 3mos 7th 45days 8th 20days
9th 10 10th 5 11th 2 12th 1
major/minor content changes
(or even changes of url)
differentiated by color
other edgerows possibly capturing
pageweight, % cruft
topical breadth, completeness, necessity
and finally a foreground icon
shaped to represent the primary
(range of) topic(s):
tech news, celeb gossip, etc
(with colorfill representing... what?)
[microformat]
and if some of this
proves less valuable
than other missing dimensions
one should
feel
this
in the belly
and tweaks should almost suggest themselves
formfields:
page-age
page-weight
% cruft
topical scope
completeness
necessity
revision-frequency
revision-intensity
revision-patterns
% original text
% copied/quoted text
% new images/audio/video/code
% copied ditto
# custom links
# link sources
granularity
ordering
.
05 January 2006
Poetic logic
most of the biggest intellectual challenges we face
boil down to aspects of the same challenge:
- a physiological model of the brain
- computer-game characters that are psychologically realistic
- a universal topic-indexing system (for webpages and local files)
- smart applications that can guess what you're trying to do
- an intuitive programming language
and in each case we can imagine that the
gap
we need to cross
is the gap between science and art
snow's two cultures
with their orthogonal
orders of merit
for it's the literary novelists
who have the best grasp of psychological characters
and it's an intuitive art to
discern the human priorities
that make an app
or an indexing scheme
or a programming language
apt
or fit
all programming languages are built on
a shared set of basic data types:
boolean integer real literal string
that could hardly be more abstract
and they're combined via the cpu's
very limited, very abstract
instruction set
and any random segment of computer code
will tell you little or nothing
about what sort of program it comes from
but suppose we start a database of code segments
and request of programmers
that each time they use a segment
they annotate the database
with a description of the realworld problem
that segment was meant to solve
which would mean, first of all
specifying what units of measure
the integers and reals were measuring
what realworld propositions
the booleans were asserting or denying
what realworld entities
the strings and literals described
and as our database bogs down
in an infinity of particulars
we try to sort and generalise and categorise
the ways code fragments can map onto the world
and perhaps we find
that identical fragments
form distinct ensembles
(time is like space
a continuous dimension
except when it isn't)
so now our simple data types
and opcodes
are seen to have a new
barely articulated
over-layer
of semantics
necessarily encompassing
the entirety of human experience
often boiling down
to units of measure
grams dollars pixels seconds
or strength agility courage health
boil down to aspects of the same challenge:
- a physiological model of the brain
- computer-game characters that are psychologically realistic
- a universal topic-indexing system (for webpages and local files)
- smart applications that can guess what you're trying to do
- an intuitive programming language
and in each case we can imagine that the
gap
we need to cross
is the gap between science and art
snow's two cultures
with their orthogonal
orders of merit
for it's the literary novelists
who have the best grasp of psychological characters
and it's an intuitive art to
discern the human priorities
that make an app
or an indexing scheme
or a programming language
apt
or fit
all programming languages are built on
a shared set of basic data types:
boolean integer real literal string
that could hardly be more abstract
and they're combined via the cpu's
very limited, very abstract
instruction set
and any random segment of computer code
will tell you little or nothing
about what sort of program it comes from
but suppose we start a database of code segments
and request of programmers
that each time they use a segment
they annotate the database
with a description of the realworld problem
that segment was meant to solve
which would mean, first of all
specifying what units of measure
the integers and reals were measuring
what realworld propositions
the booleans were asserting or denying
what realworld entities
the strings and literals described
and as our database bogs down
in an infinity of particulars
we try to sort and generalise and categorise
the ways code fragments can map onto the world
and perhaps we find
that identical fragments
form distinct ensembles
(time is like space
a continuous dimension
except when it isn't)
so now our simple data types
and opcodes
are seen to have a new
barely articulated
over-layer
of semantics
necessarily encompassing
the entirety of human experience
often boiling down
to units of measure
grams dollars pixels seconds
or strength agility courage health
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