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danbri‘s trying to reverse-engineer Big Trak bots, reminded me I had an old bot to play with : Compurobot® George the Computer Robot from 1984. Mine was a pressie, long time after that (charity shop?) but pre-Web, didn’t have a manual. According to The Old Robots Web Site, he has a 4-bit microprocessor. Curiosity fuelled, last night I opened him up. Two screws...

Damn that was weird. First, huge apologies to anyone I might have chatted to in the past 18 or so hours, wow, I totally lost it. I’d had to reduce my medication dose to zero over the space of about 5 days, run out of funds

went to dentist a coupla days back. All promising. but the guy handed me a book, Le Macchine e lo Spirito Humano. wtf? in my bag had a survey paper on Deep Learning back of this book, quotes Kurzweil teeth recoverable, thanks

I recently got a little bit worried, spending most of many years advocating a timbl world view, don’t try anything clever with your software. Damn you, stupid dannys. Just another kind of foaf:Agent I assume the schema.org has the same world view. You just cut everything down to a shared notion of communication we can understand. Something like HTTP. Still...

Recently I had two poles apart ideas, both probably symptomatic of my recent mania, but please forget  their nativity, please look at them without that. Although I can only describe this way. So one was “Always ON”. I’ve been a bit blabbly forever, enjoyed having a blog. Rare original ideas, but loving to tell people about the nice things I’d...

tldr: SPARQL with a simple templating language gets incredibly powerful. Hateful WordPress, must get my own host back up + silly danny code up again soon (will be hyperdata.it this time around, remind me to make that live soon). Lost half of this doc because WP doesn’t do Job One. Oh sorry, wrong link, but I believe DanC is a...

[draft – publish early/often…] I know this sentiment has been expressed elsewhere, but I thought I should add my €0.02 (if I haven’t already). In short, most Web APIs aren’t Webby. If you need to call it an API you’re probably doing something wrong… Thing is, APIs over HTTP continue to proliferate yet the vast majority have a fundamental flaw :...

a starter for a sci-fi story that came to me earlier during nap, typed madly on waking. Still not got around to starting The Novel, one baby step at a time… Of course it was the Quantum thing that made all the difference. that, followed a week later by the Singularity. Two of the most groundbreaking shifts in the evolution...

Was just prompted to poke into another of my past lives by a tweet which referred to a blog post about the Stoic philosopher Seneca. The blog post in question is a fairly cookie-cut Positive Thinking piece of semi-great/semi-bullshit quoting said philosopher. Don’t get me wrong, I already like Maria‘s material (twitter following), just this one gives me a little cognitive...