here you may find rambling thoughts, assorted collected information, incomplete research and creations, and admirations from trystimuli. below are some recently updated pages for your perusal.
Byte trees are a general purpose format for storing byte-oriented data in versioned nodes.
Versioned nodes is a computer storage paradigm enabling distributed collaboration, either in real time or with disconnected operation.
Converge is the prototype exchange format for versioned node. It provides fully featured blobs and versions, including braid migration, in encrypted and unencrypted flavors. The encoding with atlv is compact and simple to parse and build. And the cryptography is arranged for compact and efficient implementations.
There are a variety of similar systems and designs to versioned nodes. However, they all are designed for narrower applications, and do not quite implement the paradigm.
EA discourse crossed my path again, so I ended up reading a bit more what Émile Torres has to say. I hadn’t quite realized how much they blame AI doomers for the current AI race/bubble/mania.
maine, where i live, passed a ranked choice voting referendum six years ago. when the folks pushing it called me, i remember saying that, while it’s better than plurality, i preferred approval voting.
that’s still true.