Ivo
@velitchkov.eu
Exploring socio‑technical systems across scales – individuals, networks, organizations, society. Author of Essential Balances. Working daily with knowledge graphs for many years. essays: https://www.linkandth.ink website: https://velitchkov.eu
ah, so it's from there that the level in Graham Norton show comes from
Gordon@gordon.bsky.social · 2d agoDownsides of being court jester: - Speak truth, everyone just laughs - Work for table scraps - If king pulls lever, you fall through trapdoor - Jesting skills don’t transfer between courts Upsides: - Jingly hat
#TIL that Nodica is a village in Tuscany I used to name a tool for graph visualization kvistgaard.github.io/nodica/
Nodica – SPARQL
kvistgaard.github.io
Implicit biases are harder to change in big cities than in small cities www.santafe.edu/news-center/...
Implicit biases are harder to change in big cities than in small cities
Every human has implicit biases, or involuntary associations about members of different social groups. But these biases are not fixed. Rather, they’re malleable reflections of our everyday experiences....
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Mesmerized by Dennis Hlynsky's overlapped timelapses of starlings, crows, fish…https://vimeo.com/dennishlynsky/videos/sort:plays/format:thumbnail
Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On Anne Hathaway https://theonion.com/analysts-warn-u-s-economy-becoming-overly-dependent-on-anne-hathaway/
The problem with the 0 (zero) is not so hopeless. It can be seen as a joined () and then as ( )...( )...( )... and then as the unwritten mark. /cc @imtunnel.bsky.social
Ivo@velitchkov.eu · 11mo agoFrom Aristotle's laws of thought to Russell's Theory of Types, self-reference has been banned. But is it a mistake, or is it essential to reality? The second essay in the Containment series recalls the Calculus of Indications of George Spencer-Brown. linkandthink.substack.com/p/perfect-co... #LoF
It turns out there is no way to report GDPR violations at EU level, only at the member state level 🤦♂️ For example, The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, is in clear violation, which takes a minute to confirm. cc @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Reading and enjoying so far the new book of @gilduran.com It is a perfect illustration of the Second Law of Technodynamics www.linkandth.ink/p/second-law... so I started sketching a new article to reflect on that.
Second Law of Technodynamics
Left without counter-action, coordination control concentrates
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The latest article in the Technodynamics series is about the law of concentration. Check it out: www.linkandth.ink/p/second-law... (two more articles in the series are drafted and will be published soon)
Two new [[LoF]] tools: formspace.org dr.kimalbrecht.com/tools/diagra...
an interface for the Laws of Form notation system
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Ivo@velitchkov.eu · 11mo agoFrom Aristotle's laws of thought to Russell's Theory of Types, self-reference has been banned. But is it a mistake, or is it essential to reality? The second essay in the Containment series recalls the Calculus of Indications of George Spencer-Brown. linkandthink.substack.com/p/perfect-co... #LoF
In 1953 Pask designed a machine that has to be entertained with constant novelty; otherwise, it gets bored. When AI gets almighty, its only enemy will be boredom.
Gordon Pask’s MusiColour Machine
The following description for Pask and McKinnon-Wood’s MusiColour Machine is excerpted from Usman Haque’s “the Architectural Relevance of Gordon Pask,” Architectural Design, Vol 77, Issue 4 (…
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This is the ideal realm of forms. You may not like it, but this is what peak abstraction looks like.
And how pertinent: lectures on laws is form in the morning, and a lab exercise on occultation in the afternoon /see C4 in www.linkandth.ink/p/perfect-co...
Perfect Continence
Recalling the Laws of Form
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Ivo@velitchkov.eu · 2w agoAnd the eclipse of course
Visiting Trinity College on a hot summer day as one of the LoF conference activities
Amazing talks at [[LoF]]26 conference in Cambridge. The image below is a slide from Steve Watson's talk.
Involution: ((A)) = A "Example: Consider the outer parens to be a pocket and the inner parens to be a coin purse. For the purpose of buying a cup of coffee, the pocket and the purse are irrelevant. All that matters is the money nested within the two containers."
Ivo@velitchkov.eu · 11mo agoBoundary Logic is a unary, post-symbolic logic, inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and George Spencer Brown. The new post in the Containment series gives an overview. www.linkandth.ink/p/boundary-l... #LoF #logic #math #computing
The logic that we learn as two-year-olds, the NOT s and ANDs and ORs and IFs, comes with a terrible price: *logical dualism* . It teaches us to divide our world into things that are TRUE and things that are FALSE while eliminating both compromise and contradiction. —Bricken
Ivo@velitchkov.eu · 11mo agoBoundary Logic is a unary, post-symbolic logic, inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and George Spencer Brown. The new post in the Containment series gives an overview. www.linkandth.ink/p/boundary-l... #LoF #logic #math #computing
Me: But why does it happen? Cristian: The model is rewarded when adding ambiguity with good posture. It gains more points with hollow sentences. Like some politicians.
Ivo@velitchkov.eu · 2mo agoLLM-generated prose overuses certain words for transitions, pivots, contrast, and summarization. Recent studies have confirmed that, compared to human texts, generated prose overexplains. 🧵
Nodica is an open-source app that visualizes [[RDF]] graphs with image-filled nodes. You can load the graph from a [[SPARQL]] endpoint or from an RDF file. It's Turtle all the way down. #RDF #SPARQL kvistgaard.github.io/nodica/
Nodica – SPARQL
kvistgaard.github.io
#TIL that Daniel Dennett coined the term retrospective coronation, so I updated the serendipity glossary to reflect that.
Ivo@velitchkov.eu · 5mo agoI couldn't find a glossary of [[serendipity]] terms, so I wrote one www.linkandth.ink/p/glossary-o...