Scott H.

I provide graph analysis tools that help people collaboratively model, understand, operate and improve systems without servers or administrators.

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2023-12-04 15:55:45

Did you know there is a live version of #world3 online?
https://insightmaker.com/insight/2pCL5ePy8wWgr4SN8BQ4DD/The-World3-Model-Classic-World-Simulation
#clubofrome
#limitstogrowth
#donellameadows

2023-12-03 14:34:48

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@npub1qg4…augv
I am curious what full quote *of Al Jaber* in that Guardian article you have an issue with? Why?

2023-11-30 16:15:50

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@npub1nuw…zp9h @npub104c…2g4m Generally true. So far, though, it looks like OpenAI is. I have an extensive bad bot list for the infamous. It is ugly out there. Every time I see people gripe about open platforms requiring an account to see content, I know the reason.

2023-11-28 00:51:19

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@npub1ku7…strj What is your take on Relational Frame Theory? I've been told that some of my interests are related, but it is new to me. It seems like something you might know about. (I did read the Wikipedia article just this morning. Your post reminded me a bit of it.)

2023-10-22 14:58:47

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If you don't want to use Lodash, you can use this trick:
foo[bar]=foo[bar] || {}
foo[bar][foobar]=null
This makes sure you don't clobber the branches as you build the graph.
This method isn't that far off from the design of NetworkX in Python land. I only use two functions from Lodash: setWith and get. Use lodash-cli to get a custom build.

2023-10-22 14:45:38

As long as you stay within keys, and ignore values, objects can be used as a graph structure. Decomposed graphs are triples, a pile of decomposed knowledge of relations. The feature is that triples do not require order; however, if you assemble them into a graph with objects, you have to do tricks if the ID path doesn't exist. If you use _setWith, it you can default to an Object. _set assumes arrays for ints.
https://lodash.com/docs/#set

2023-10-21 13:58:23

The question is: can I turn everything off for 10 hours straight as I synthesize the 10,000 and lay it down? It is a decent benchmark, particularly because people can't understand complicated (different) things end-to-end. It has probably always been that way, but I have to offer that the US Lincoln Douglas debates serve as a cultural example that perhaps we haven't always been so bad at that. I'm sure I'm answering my own question, right? Turn. It. Off. Focus. Don't monitor interaction.

2023-10-21 13:42:50

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@npub1tc6…mhfm Here is another perspective to put in your collection of blog ideas. It formed the basis of my version, but I continually fail at it. I remember one time I was writing in the lab on a computer (circa '84 Mac) and describing how it helped my flow. Pete Sinclair criticized me: "It sounds like the less thought you give to something before you put it on paper is a good thing." Regardless, his ideas on what a blog (journal) are, have formed me. Open the PDF here:
https://archives.evergreen.edu/1976/1976-12/sinclair_l/

2023-10-21 13:31:22

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@npub1psd…9sr7 10 years ago: Why are zombies so big right now? - #JohnVervaeke
https://youtu.be/iSwAbQD-gZU

2023-10-21 13:17:05

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@npub19j0…ss0k I always figured it was Kernighan and Ritchie until I saw your ask. Pulled my own copy off the shelf to second check. I did my own search... curious about your ask. I did find that A stood for assembler (a.out). I didn't know that. I'm convinced that it was K&R that did that. It is the main part of the program, of course, so perhaps English did that.

2023-10-20 22:25:18

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@npub1tc6…mhfm ... and, if you are curious about the source code, since it is injected, 🙏 will give you the packages all prettied up and syntax highlighted, along with the ORNG source as well. The CMS uses Deno, and it assembles the page from more traditional separate files, but I wanted to make sure the source went with the single page.

2023-10-20 21:52:33

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@npub1tc6…mhfm I have an odd personal one. It has 1300 entries I've written since 1990 (WordPerfect) through to today on my own custom CMS. I compress the entries and JavaScript libraries into a JSON string using zstandard, so all of the entries fit in a single page, roughly the size of a floppy with all libraries. You can search for three intersecting keywords and switch the image source. You can also select tags and sections to browse with (just wrenching, for instance).
https://orng.org

2023-10-20 21:27:50

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 Willie Nelson song These Are Difficult Times/Remember the Good times... lyrics fit

2023-10-20 21:26:28

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
https://youtu.be/2TgCke_qIeY

2023-10-12 13:30:21

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@npub1lxk…8x93 seen just now in my term
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/111/222/285/130/019/090/original/b47a8dfce91d576e.jpg

2023-10-06 15:01:51

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@npub1xxe…zxth If we worked in the proper direction, and decided where we were, mapped the systems, and planned a route, we wouldn't like the answers. We need food, water, wet bulb temp, shelter, and basic medical care for all humans, without damaging the biosphere for other living organisms we share it with, and that we rely on. We can have all of that, but we certainly won't be tweeting about it as we live it. The answers are politically untenable, so we collapse. I do agree with the OP.

2023-10-03 14:47:56

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@npub14lm…5crk That is actually a concise and truthful article. If you account for the resources needed across the full supply chain for most high tech solutions, you will run into similar problems. We run much like a ponzi scheme where we have been duped into thinking that kilowatts *do* fall out of the sky. Eventually this will all unfold and be apparent. A graphs:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country
An article:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.7b04573

2023-10-01 17:17:29

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@npub14lm…5crk I enjoy Barry Smith AI. Stream analysis has it's place; however, mostly I am biased as well, particularly since it seems humans are unwilling to seize agency in their own maps and telemetry... somewhere to start and a goal to reach. The dominant AI version is wasteful and ridiculous. (Kind of like how blockchain might possibly be interesting and useful... rsyslog's merkle trees for instance ... but it completely dies in the dominant version.)

2023-10-01 17:00:23

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@npub14lm…5crk Does "frontier of AI capability" mean it had enough data to scrape and regurgitate grape-juice plus?

2023-09-29 12:31:29

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@npub14lm…5crk If my "last stand" wasn't on ubiquitous compute via a monolithic run-time environment that matched standard web browser languages and presentation, I would *so* invest all of my crankish energy into #Uiua. I would make Terry A Davis proud. Alas.

2023-09-04 15:15:17

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@npub1698…hmgt @npub1c98…dnw0 Is "halo hack" a thing? (light colored halo around dark edges and arrows) It is a good one to remember. I might use that sometime. I read through your github thread, but couldn't figure out what tool you used to generate the visualization of the graph. What is it?

2023-09-04 14:56:23

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@npub1c98…dnw0 For connecting lines, I'll often fall back to Graphviz or CytoscapeJS first, then hit the SVG output with a script to clean up for CSS. Some other interesting tools you might look at are Vym (free as in beer and Stallman) and EdrawMax (not free in any sense). Vym can work between a mind map and a graph, as it outputs fairly consistent XML in native form. (I'm making some assumptions on why/how you are utilizing lines.)

2023-09-03 16:33:12

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2023-09-02 15:20:00

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@npub1d83…tnrx hypocrite?

2023-09-02 15:04:50

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@npub1c98…dnw0 I've done this with quite a few of my graphics on triple.pub. The only way I've found that works consistently is to script it and use CSS and dummy color values as markers in the SVG tool (Inkscape). I use the script to remove fonts, so the fonts are inherited. You have to move the SVGs to inline, so you also need to make IDs different (I use a short hash). My take is that this all works by design. If you have colors embedded in HTML, for instance, it will override CSS.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/110/996/158/874/793/552/original/25bd665441157206.png

2023-09-01 12:00:37

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@npub1m0w…n0rv I see your ma na ma na, and raise it an Orsen Welles https://archive.org/details/the-orson-welles-show-the-muppetsburt-reynolds-1979-unaired/ORSONWELLESSHOW/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_4.VOB

2023-08-18 14:27:50

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@npub1xxe…zxth "Junkyard computing". I love it

2023-08-13 19:43:34

This is what I work on:
https://triple.pub/

2023-08-13 13:52:50

ironic
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