Live coding[1] (sometimes referred to as 'on-the-fly programming',[2] 'just in time programming') is a programming practice centred upon the use of improvised interactive programming. Live coding is often used to create sound and image based digital media, and is particularly prevalent in computer music, combining algorithmic composition with improvisation.[3] Typically, the process of writing is made visible by projecting the computer screen in the audience space, with ways of visualising the code an area of active research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding (more)

Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, “Why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph”). Hey folks! TL;DR: I have joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world’s most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP). (more)

people Making A Living by creating low-value tasks for other people, then complaining (more)

a Robert Anton Wilson character, a pun on a Markov Chain

Gordon Brander: If headers did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them. One thing I’ve been thinking about is how to introduce an open-ended metadata primitive to Subconscious app. Key-value metadata is a fundamental pattern that we see emerge repeatedly. Where it doesn’t exist, we often see it bolted on after the fact. (more)

Gordon Brander: Stepping stones in possibility space. In Possibility Space, we looked at the creative process as a search problem, an exploration through the space of possibility (more)

Gordon Brander: Complex ideas procreate through citation. A provocation from Richard Dawkins: ideas are alive! (more)

Opinion | ‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.. Over the past two decades, the philosopher David Chalmers has established himself as a leading thinker on consciousness. He began his academic career in mathematics but slowly migrated toward cognitive science and philosophy of mind. He eventually landed at Indiana University working under the guidance of Douglas Hofstadter, whose influential book “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” had earned him a Pulitzer Prize (more)

Gordon Brander on Redecentralization. A few more thoughts on how decentralization enables permissionless innovation, and what it might mean for today’s web. (more)

Gordon Brander: Coevolution creates living complexity. Adewale Oshineye... coins the concept of a Gall-Meadows ladder. (Gall's Law, Donella Meadows) (more)

Gordon Brander: Launching Subconscious Alpha-1. We’re starting a slow-rollout for Subconscious. We’ve made it to the starting line! A small MVP app that we’ve been using as our daily driver. (more)

Gordon Brander: Noosphere design principles. We’ve been making a lot of headway on Noosphere the last few weeks. New contributors, progress on a Noosphere CLI, and the beginnings of the p2p petname name service. (more)

Gordon Brander: Is open source r-selected? Basically swarms vs tanks, in video game terms. (more)

Gordon Brander: web2.0 has a bad emperor problem. In his book The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama describes a political dilemma called the bad emperor problem (more)

Gordon Brander: Noosphere, a protocol for thought. So, the post where we explored a redecentralized hypertext protocol? Well, we’re actually building it. (more)

Gordon Brander: LLMs and hyper-orality. a friend recently shared an interesting experiment: http://wanderer.glazkov.com. By fine-tuning an LLM on his writing, he taught his blog to speak back. (more)

Gordon Brander: Everyone will have their own AI. I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy recently, a near-future sci-fi epic of terraforming, ecology, politics, big history. One of the intriguing background details in this story is that everyone has a personal AI (more)

browser extension+other bits - project by karlicoss https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia Another piece of your extended mind (more)

Human Programming Interface project by karlicoss https://beepb00p.xyz/hpi.html (more)

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