“API design” techniques: separation of concerns

Evergreen note titles are like APIs

Formal structures unlock powerful forms of reasoning like conceptual combination, analogy, and causal reasoning.

Roam’s superpower for knowledge synthesis: Incremental formalization

C- Incrementally processing notes is a key user behavior to promote synthesis

able to find what they are looking for even when they don’t quite know how to express it.

C- Hypertext enables communication with high information density

A key advantage of writing in hypertext

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So with freedom—and I know this is a cliché, but hopefully not in this context—with freedom of that sort comes enormous responsibility. And it’s paradoxical. Responsibility to dream and, coexisting and simultaneous with that, an obligation to awaken. In other words, an obligation to make sense, be non-trivial, not to squander resources in foolishness. An obligation to awaken, and an obligation to, at the same time, dream. And then the rational mind screams out, “But this is impossible! This is paradox!” But the subtle mind understands that we have now reached square one. By openly confronting the necessity for paradox, and by openly confronting the fact that we can only enclose our dilemma by speaking in at least two modes at once, we begin to actually honor the complexity of the situation.

like people just over indexing on being like on like syntactic like transformation tools when you think about like manipulating data uh it's easy to think about like 00:47:03 manipulating its syntax and semantics in one and that way seeing the difference between those two so it's a suite of tools for uh specifically doing the kind of like semantic manipulation that is characteristic 00:47:15 and integration projects for knowledge graphs

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a portable edge stack or uh just an encrypted at rest file system location independent user controlled data self modifying apps and services 00:00:54 off protocol in a trench coat

we have offline and async sharing and we're now starting on a 00:03:52 uh scalable fully distributed uh database uh local first on top of ipfs as well um and we will eventually get to that portable compute section uh near the top there 00:04:05 and then there's this nice line and then abstractions to get that into developer's hand so that they don't need to know that there's this towering stack of things underneath in terms of actual experience um 00:04:17 [Music] the end goal right is to make it so that people don't have to know that there's something uh special happening so sorry i didn't create a new demo this is from a previous presentation 00:04:29 where it just looks like a regular app but the data underneath is owned by the user and portable between apps so here's that file from the previous app and we can now load it up in this sort of file

Identity, Capabalities, & Private Data - @expede - Building Apps on IPFS

global peer-to-peer encrypted file system and application protocol being a file system everything has a unique path which begins with your 00:00:28 username fine grained access control it's pure capability based you don't need to rely on a server to enforce these capabilities just maths it's quantum resistant

don't do peer-to-peer stuff directly in the browser for 00:03:08 privacy reasons for we don't have a broadcast uip address or anything like that so that's handled by the server but everything the server is treated as untrusted so everything the client gets whether it's a hash or a signature or 00:03:19 whatever is is checked uh in the client code

Decentralization enables permissionless innovation

cue the rise of domain-specific browsers!)

They haven't seen any major innovations since 2020. What's next?

odd honor of being the "man in the middle", a key component in many people's workflows.

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TFTs, Funding Open Source, Decentralized Apps, Oh My!

Your product concept is a short summary of what you are planning to offer.

Customer needs and pain points change rapidly, so businesses must innovate

Effective Concept Testing Requires a Well-Written Product Concept

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The most compelling and broadly relevant meanings are universal concepts, ideas and notions that almost everyone can relate to, but do not mean the same to any two people. Examples of universal concepts include: joy, death, family, suffering, love, and birth.2008. máj. 29.

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CCS Concepts

From Users to (Sense)Maker

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Poetry for Neanderthals

Software is my medium, but people are my focus

solving meaningful problems and enriching the lives of others

William Fischer 2nd degree connection 2nd Software Engineer | Designer | Learner Socialroots University of Colorado Denver Denver, Colorado, United States

Poetry for Neanderthals (2020) A single-syllable word game in which you must speak good or get hit with stick!

a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person."the traditionally British trait of self-denigration"

entity identification andlocal relation extraction, while our corpusfacilitates further exploration of challenginglong-range relations

novel interactive textual simulator that keeps track of entity traits and semantic constraints during annotation.

addressing challenges

Process Execution Graphs (PEG), a document-level representation of real-world wet lab biochemistry protocols

Lauren Hebert 2nd degree connection 2nd Complex Systems, Participatory Design & Learning Science // Co-Founder at Veeo Make4Covid.co University of Colorado Denver Denver, Colorado, United States

At Inworks, we learn and teach through making, but we don’t just make things – we make them matter.

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"We're in this together" isn't just a pithy catch-phrase—it's a fundamental truth of human existence.

We keep the data you entrust us with private and secure. We don't want strangers to watch how we behave then sell the observations to companies, so we don't expect you to be ok with it when information about your digital life is collected and sold. We'll always be totally transparent about how we use and handle data, and we always keep your private data private, period.

Respect for others—their needs, boundaries, preferences, and basic humanity—comes first.

We try to understand how the choices we make impact the world, and try to act wisely enough to not break things.

We're so deeply interconnected that many seemingly benign decisions can snowball into an avalanche of unintended consequences.

a socio-technical framework for "freeing" human attention from control by platform

propose Open Source Attention

centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution

online epistemic environments are increasingly polluted

The web has become a dominant epistemic environment, influencing people's beliefs at a global scale

From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking

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Received $50k in seed funding from Protocol Labs for our work on sustainable infrastructures for knowledge synthesis!

hamster wheel for people.

The document is just a structure over your information.

Write information,not documents.

it's like a bicycle for your mind.

breaks when you try to change or scale things.

mix files and import statements into a coupled mess.

"chasing my tail, too complicated to scale"

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Peers who trust each other

Once bootstrapped,

Secure, decentralized, meaningful, pick two.

The web began as a tool for thought

Money is a technology.

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Certificate Authorities create nickname/key pairs

lambda names like bookmarks only map from the private name to the key, with no mapping back.

effort is made to make the id both human memorable on the one hand, and unforgeable, on the other

"how do I transfer a purposeful trust association?"

The hard part is transferring a key with an association to purposeful trust

An Introduction to Petname Systems

creating a "system oriented discipline": Bootstrapping as an evolutionary strategy for developing and improving the tools by using the system as the basis of the Augment Research Center's daily work practice.

Doug says that content represents concepts, but there is also a relation between the content of concepts, their structure, and the structure of other domains of human thought that is too complex to investigate in linear text. The computer is a tool for navigating through those structures and examining them in ways that would be too complex otherwise.

Doug describes the goals of NLS (online system). NLS is an instrument for helping humans operate within the domain of complex information structures. By "operate" Doug means compose, study and modify. By "complex information structures"

progressive, i.e. productive, when they enhance the programme's explanatory and/or predictive power, and that they are at least permissible until some better system of theories is devised and the research programme is replaced entirely. The difference between a progressive and a degenerative research programme lies, for Lakatos, in whether the recent changes to its auxiliary hypotheses have achieved this greater explanatory/predictive power or whether they have been made simply out of the necessity of offering some response in the face of new and troublesome evidence.

Basic research, also called pure research or fundamental research, is a type of scientific research with the aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena.

A research program might degenerate—lose progressiveness—but later return to progressiveness

A research program (British English: research programme) is a professional network of scientists conducting basic research.

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Sensemaking involves creating and manipulating a representation from raw data that makes some downstream task easier

C- Synthesis as a process is usefully modeled as a specialized form of sensemaking

Q- What is synthesis

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And since they can already create any sort of document in a tool that requires no abstraction, it's just a hard sell.

Different views for content authoring

Smart citiesToronto wants to kill the smart city foreverThe city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong.

automate the dronelike parts of programming but also make the programming interface so intuitive that the insurance specialists or accountants or aircraft designers can see their contributions and make improvements by bringing their own expertise to bear, without the programmer as intermediary.

“Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining,” he claims. “In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.”

who is hoping to enrich the Uniform Modeling Language by building in a broader version of Kiczales’s “aspects,” so that, for example, functions like security and authentication would automatically weave themselves through entire software systems.

allow programmers to build software of a complexity we can’t approach using today’s methods.

“Look what the hardware people have managed to do with Moore’s Law. Now it’s going to be software’s turn.”

Everyone’s a ProgrammerSoftware is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Charles Simonyi’s solution? Programming tools that are so simple that even laypeople can use them.

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How thinking happens: Triangulation

The term "rearranging"

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Accelerating Scientific Discovery by Lowering Barriers toUser-Generated Synthesis of Scientific Literature

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it's too bad that the system cannot come up automatically with a meaningful name so we have to supply that writing a new enzyme is not very hard using ip's

can extract a procedure from open code we start by selecting a piece of code that we think might be shareable we apply the enzyme and we get a procedure and a call to it with all the necessary

given that the program is a database it's easy to create tools that operate on programs because we like biological metaphors we call these tools enzymes there is an IP a very useful enzyme that

existential opportunity for establishing a world ‘goodenough’ for humans to live in.

Our proposition is grounded in a detailed analysis of themanner in which the socio-econo-political system has evolved into a powerful control mechanismthat subsumes human minds, steers their will and automates their thinking.

serving to augment the autonomy of the first from the‘programming’ imposed by the second.

hree kinds of cognitive system—the human mind, social systemsand the emerging synthetic intelligence

It will becomea distributed, synthetically intelligent agent in itself

mediate theexecution of contracts, transactions, public interventions and all other change-establishing eventsmore reliably and more synergistically than any other technology or institution

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we start from the bottom and build tools for people to adopt and then you grow the infrastructure

subscribe to graph queries you can start there

revising a larger vision we have this building block for a new infrastructure beyond itunes for papers and 00:43:30 yeah we start by just facilitating collaboration systems and then you can scale up by prioritizing decentralization and federation and we can publish to say databases like ceramic or the graph or so on and people 00:43:43 can subscribe to graph queries you can start there as opposed to every publishing into a single stream immediately to have people talk to each other i like this metaphor uh the way that we're working as opposed to starting from the top and saying

some point we need some way to 00:43:05 understand which pieces of evidence are the same or similar which pieces of claims are similar or not

middle layer between the sort of more structured knowledge graph that's more granular and the more coarse documents this kind of middle layer the 00:42:52 disco stuff could enable sort of communication across the systems

translating between 00:42:03 user extendable grammars but also having a similar underlying idea seems like one promising way to enable this peer-to-peer thing to start people might be concerned about formality machine readability

avoid the one standard problem

we have a proven concept it's possible to write close to probes and create shareable discourse graphs as 00:41:12 a byproduct uh i think this opens up new pops the sustainable scalable authoring

enables you to sort of translate between those 00:41:00 this is a bigger promising design pattern

ery minimal ontology of questions and evidence and you can extend it in lo

extending or personalizing grammar is crucial right many extensions were finer distinctions right we have different flavors of claims or different 00:40:34 flavors of evidence but you can also be collapsed together if you wanted to sort of translate to a different graph and this connects to this kind of concept of boundary objects from information science

using it to find and access important ideas like later on they can use the more advanced features but uh just simply having the discourse graph as a way to structure right that model 00:40:22 is a way to structure it thinking

fostering more careful and career thinking patterns was most of the time enough for people to adopt this they wanted to think in this way and the tool helps them to think in this way and 00:40:11 that's that's good

some efforts to port this discourse graph to an html annotation standard for broader web publishing use

the way that the system knows how to translate the writing patterns into edges is through a grammar that is user customizable that essentially says 00:35:14 when i write something like this which is on the left i want you to save it and recognize it that this is a particular relationship right

if you force people to only think in terms of structured nodes 00:32:55 and edges for example it sort of kills the thinking process

integrate that into the the document itself

you're looking for papers but really what you care about is what's in them the ideas the claims the arguments the theories the findings and the discourse relations between the 00:05:08 right support opposition replication lines of evidence lines of contradiction right these kinds of things

these indexing systems work with what they have the data 00:05:59 structure is what's at issue similarly um we have entire industry of system review tools and processes that are essentially dedicated to working against the underlying data structure they are sort of like we've got these 00:06:12 papers and we need to work our way around it so we have all these processes for screening for data extraction to get to the thing we actually care about and then we don't share anybody else and everybody has to start from scratch next time

theory is evidence problem solutions they're not first-class citizens

core conjecture of this line of work is that it's not just about the tools it's not just about our motivation it's about the infrastructure it's about the unit of analysis right why why does google scholar work

accelerating scientific discovery by lowering barriers to 00:00:42 user-generated synthesis of scientific literature which will include discussing how scholarly practices could be transformed

f feeding its slave to the trap data you have this sense that um of fighting against uh the infrastructure

synthesis is actually really hard

risk wasting our time on questions that are trivial impossible misframed one of my favorite phrases is you can't play 20 questions with nature and win

a recent nobel prize winner who credited some of her key inspirations to a masterful survey of the literature in a handbook chapter of economic developmental economics and 00:02:11 it really laid out some key problems in the field that she was able to sort of connect with her expertise and experimental methods

giving insight into here are some of the gaps here are where we should be going next um driving progress forward

key intuition is that you create a new innovative conceptual whole that's greater than the sum of the parts of things that you're integrating

so what i mean by synthesis it's probably an intuitive concept but some examples include theories models design spaces and very good systematic or literature reviews

goal is to remove various defective synthesis

update on what i talked about in the previous talk which was linked in the chat

it’s a challenge to get users to input metadata in a consistent way

is limited by its inability to be queried and updated.

How can we build upon implicit metadata for a frictionless user experience?

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physical systems can be completely deterministic and yet still be inherently unpredictable

As a graduate student in Chihiro Hayashi's laboratory at Kyoto University, Yoshisuke Ueda was experimenting with analog computers and noticed, on November 27, 1961, what he called "randomly transitional phenomena". Yet his advisor did not agree with his conclusions at the time, and did not allow him to report his findings until 1970

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"You can’t play twenty questions with nature and win"

scientific progress may not even be tractable without adequatesynthesis (as theory), even with advanced methods and data

especially necessary for problems where it is difficult orimpossible to construct decisive experimental tests

Synthesis maybe supported by and manifested in a variety of forms, such as a theory, an effective systematic or inte-grative literature review, a causal model, a cogent research proposal or problem formulation, or model ofa design space, among others.

Effective synthesis generates new knowledge, integrating relevant theories, concepts, claims, andevidence into novel conceptual wholes [Strike and Posner, 1983, Blake and Pratt, 2006].

To advance science, scientists must synthesize what is currently known and unknown

WordNet # (n) bon mot a clever remark

Pseudonymous Credibility without public identity.