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You may remember that I am looking for a solution to the SNAIL problem, which will have to be based on epistemic monotonic logic. Well, monotone offers half of the solution, monotonic logic. And that is also the more useful half to me, considering that the instantaneous latency of my SNAIL networks is actually low: when my computers are connected to each other, then the communication latency between them is below a few tenths of seconds at most.
( Read more... )Now is a good time to announce that the software behind Cliki.Tunes.Org, aka CTO, has been noticeably improved.
( Read more... )Since I'm into Magic That Works (as opposed to Magic That Doesn't), here's an interesting Chilean guy who teaches The Power of Words to those who (economically) express the direst need to understand it, Fernando Flores. Wouldn't that be the same Fernando Flores who worked with Terry Winograd? (Found by way of Bala Pillai, a new friend met on orkut.)
sleepySince I'm beginning to get seriously interested in SNAIL, that is, Slow Networking with Atrocious Interchange Latency, I've done a bit of research as to decentralized replacements for CVS. After a liminary consultation of my pineal gland, here is what I've found, thanks notably to Rick Moene: There is indeed a package based on monotonic logic, appropriately named monotone (doh!). There are also several other promiseful software packages, including the following ones that attracted my attention: Arch, Codeville, DARCS, Meta-CVS. If you anything about these software projects and their rivals, I'm curious about you opinion. Meanwhile, I'll investigate these, and see which is most hackable.
I first heard of Clay Shirky
through Slashdot,
with his article
The Case Against Micropayments.
But actually, I like all his articles.
This guy has a lot of insight, and his approach of problems
is definitely of the same kind as for austrian
economists:
taking information costs into account.
discontentDuring my work, I've had to visit the site axiopole by Olivier Zara: a moderately interesting anthropological point of view on cooperation (notably in business setting). The signal/noise ratio is poor, and the site is a counter-exemple for all the technical principles of correct web site development (cf. PandA, UseIt, ...). Still, signal there is, and one comes to think that there must be a better site somewhere on the same subject, albeit maybe in english only. Does any of my readers know a decent site that would tackle the questions of organizing cooperative work groups? Additional links: as far as computer-supported cooperative work goes, an author who seems to master technology as well as anthropology, with a dynamic way of thinking, is Paul Dourish. Now as for the ambition to build too big a system for cooperation, I've been told about the Systemantics series of book by John Gall, that might be as deep and funny as the Principe de Peter (see also the generalization of the latter). | Pour mon travail, j'ai eu l'occasion de visiter axiopole d'Olivier Zara: un point de vue anthropologique modérément intéressant sur la coopération (en entreprise notamment). Le rapport signal/bruit est médiocre, et le site est un contre-exemple de tous les principes techniques du développement de sites webs corrects (cf. PandA, UseIt, ...). Il y a du signal cependant, et on se prend à penser qu'il doit bien y avoir un site meilleur quelque part sur le même sujet, quoique peut-etre seulement en anglais. Un de mes lecteurs connaît-il un site qui traiterait correctement des questions d'organisation de groupes de travail coopératifs? Liens supplémentaires: pour ce qui est des logiciels de coopération, un auteur qui semble maîtriser la technique aussi bien que l'anthropologie, dans une perspective dynamique, est Paul Dourish. Quant à l'ambition de construire de trop gros systèmes pour coopérer, on me fait valoir les livres de la série Systemantics par John Gall, paraît-il aussi profond et hilarant que le Principe de Peter (voir aussi la généralisation de ce dernier). |
