Simon Brooke

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@yogthos The inference engine I was working on for my thesis (and never completed), Wildwood, assigned objects to classes automatically based on their features; so that

  1. one object could be in many otherwise unrelated classes; and
  2. you could define a new class, and it would be automatically populated with every object already known to the system which met its criteria.

I wrote about this idea in my first essay of the #PostScarcitySoftware project.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2006-02-20-postscarcity-software/#social-mobility

@Aseelsehwel @palestine It's an account with

  1. no followers;
  2. no follows.

It's someone who does not engage with the community, has no influence, and only seeks to make trouble. Report it, block it, and forget it (although your very courteous and dignified reply to this troll does you credit).

I will not be able to help you this week, I'm afraid. I have limited money and the number of people needing support is large.

@Aseelsehwel@mas.to @aseelsehwel@blog.gaza.onl @palestine thank you for sharing. I wish that you were not condemned to be a hero, but I am glad that you are there, to whisper to those children that they are not alone.

You are not alone, either. We hear you, and we honour you, as one who has had the cloak of heroism forced on you, but yet has chosen to stand up under the weight of it.

Keep whispering to the children.

@planet @clojure strictly, these are characterisation tests rather than unit tests. Characterisation tests are tests to check that the behaviour of a program doesn't change; unit tests should be tests that the program is working as specified.

@planet @clojure Two errors in the first paragraph is not encouraging. An associative array does not necessarily support either a 'remove' or an 'insert' operation, and, indeed, in languages with immutable data, it supports neither.

What's worse, the entire article appears to have been lifted verbatim from Wikipedia.

The whole site appears to be an email harvesting scam.

@NABDad @Provider Usenet was certainly an amazing space, for a long time. It was a lot of my social life from the 1980s until into the 2000s. It slightly predates the Internet, running on UUCP; and indeed I ran a UUCP relay from my home for a time.

I then, in the 1990s and after, ran webservers from home. Yes, I was privileged to do so. The web, too, was a very exciting place in the early days.