Dr. Edward Morbius ❌ @dredmorbius@mammouth.cafe
Space Alien Cat. https://dredmorbius.reddit.com Administrivia: https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/34102
Reminder, i've migrated to mastodon.cloud and this instance will be closing.
Follow me here: @dredmorbius
A periodic reminder that mammouth.cafe will be shutting down in December, and I've moved my activity to mastodon.cloud.
Please follow @dredmorbius for future updates.
Thank you.
A periodic reminder that mammouth.cafe will be shutting down in December, and I've moved my activity to mastodon.cloud.
Please follow @dredmorbius for future updates.
Thank you.
@skk @skk I strongly recommend you letting people know they can use @kensanata's mastodon-backup CLI tool (Python) to back up their data from mammouth.cafe.
I've just done this successfully myself in a few minutes.
@eliotberriot Hey, I'm moving back to @dredmorbius (mastodon.cloud).
I'm /not/ forgetting our project, and in fact have had Actual Desktop access for a while, which is a Good Thing. Also sorting through my Pocket articles and giving thoughts to Various Things.
Since mammouth.cafe will be shutting down, I'm probably back to mastodon.cloud for my primary presence, though I'll likely be adding others.
@dredmorbius is going away.
@dredmorbius will remain.
Please update your following / subscriptions accordingly, thanks.
s/TFW its/TFW *WHEN* it's/
Fucking hell. I should give up on languaging and just start banging rocks together. Or my head. Same thing.
TFW its your TFW post that gets the response rather than the three attempts at a serious topic ;-)
TFW it takes you three tries over three hours to submit a post without an (uncorrectable) typo in the title.
What were the homeless called before they were "homeless", and what gave rise to the 1980s crisis?
."..I'm going through the NY Times archive, 1900 to present. A few observations: Through most of that period (I've scanned through 1969), "homeless" wasn't a label but a temporary condition. People were "made homeless", usually by some specific mishap or accident, almost always a fire, perhaps a major storm or hurricane...."
If you find yourself in a hole ...
... consider a more challenging hiding place next time.
And checking stats, it looks as if I'm 1/3 of mammouth.cafe's total toot volume. 3314/9338, prior to this post.
🇫🇷 Concernant la fermeture du Mammouth Café: le site reste encore un moment, mais je ne puis plus garantir son existence en 2018.
Si vous souhaitez exporter vos contacts, vous pouvez le faire dans les préférences.
Si vous souhaitez sauvegarder votre contenu, essayez https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-backup (ht: @kensanata )
Si vous avez le savoir-faire et les moyens de reprendre la charge de ce site, contactez-moi.
It appears my primary Masto instance is going offline in December, so a reminder that I have another instance as @dredmorbius. I've found having secondaries useful and may park on @toot.cat as well.
If there's a way for me to export my toots, I'd really like to know about that soon. Everything's ephemeral, but there are a few things I'd like to salvage if possible.
🇬🇧 This is not an easy toot, so I'll be brief.
Due to a change in my personal circumstances, I will not be able to continue to manage the Mammouth Café for much longer.
- new registrations are no longer possible
- the site will remain active in any case until December 21, 2017
- after which, I will make a backup of his condition (just in case) and he will be taken offline
I regret this more than I can express.
A network has structure.
A system has process.
Two components may be bonded for, effectively, all eternity, the least of times, or some stretch in between. The /relative/ durability of relations is an aspect of such property.
Software is itself a representation of all of this, and yes, I'm thinking of concepts such as Unix pipelines and processes as an example of such structures, though there are many others.
Oh: endpoints may also share an entry/exit.
I'm also thinking circuit diagrams express a lot of this.
5/
That is, a molecules are comprised of atoms, and atoms may be added, removed, or bonded to other atoms in different arrangements. So the process again is add, remove, slice, or join.
What is novel is that the resultant material can have markedly different characteristics. Two gasses (at STP) join to create a liquid. Two poisons to form a vital mineral (NaCl). Repeat chaining of C-H groups produces variants on petroleum chemistry, from methane to asphalt.
Association duration varies.
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That is, Holland talks of the types of transforms which can occur to information. The simple ones are deletions, duplications, slices, and joins. This is particularly applicable to the fields of genetics (modifications of a linear genetic strand), or in technology, where modular constructs are modified, often as duplicating, cutting, or joining different elements.
If you look at more complex concepts, say, chemistry, the transforms may seem more complex, but tend toward the basics.
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6. A gate. Capable of toggling or variably throttling flows. This includes logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, ...).
7. Transformative. The node operates on inputs, creating a different output or outputs.
The transform node itself probably has a number of classifications, and the list above may be a simple set of transforms. E.g., an endpoint node might be a /dev/null, /dev/full, or /dev/zero, which either eat or produce outputs.
The work of John C. Holland may apply here.