PinnedNew Jungle Modern PrimitivesLike old times, it is all about search, collect and refine. The jungle changed. Before, it was one filled with animals and physical dangers. Now, it is an intangible landscape, a home for chimeras of thoughts and the dangers of fallacies. We overcame the old jungle through community, by building…Information1 min readInformation1 min read
PinnedA Proposal for a Conceptor Calculus, Formal UnityBack when I started writing on tensors[†, ‡], I had an idea. I wanted to cast the constraints founds in regular language to a geometric format. The backbone of that thought is a long-held belief that meaning takes shape from utter chaotic freedom by imposition of order through limitation and…Knowledge5 min readKnowledge5 min read
Jun 4, 2022Reflections on Value, Amid The CryptoSummer 2021, I spent almost two months in the foreign lands of finance. By then, the world had already entered a new era, crypto-everything. It was the opportunity to, (a) forge myself a piece of understanding applicable to “things of value” and (b) use that to make sense of the…Reflections8 min readReflections8 min read
Published inBootcamp·May 19, 2022Code as a PropagationMuch like any thought I’ve had so far. Ideas come in pair and the result is something interesting. This, is no exception. Back when I wrote about objects[†] and order[‡], I made a realization. Regulating loops with counters is like using a fraction of their potential. When you learn to…Coding4 min readCoding4 min read
Apr 24, 2022Ontologies and DistinctionsIt was only natural that my thoughts on knowledge and subsequent realizations would extend to the consideration of alternative ways to engineer understanding and thus, descriptions. The drive of this work is a found connection between ontologies — one of the formal ingredients† of descriptions — and distinctions. To put…Knowledge7 min readKnowledge7 min read
Apr 23, 2022On the Principles of DistinctionIt has been almost a year since I wrote “Knowledge as the Art of Drawing Distinctions” and during all this time I have been pondering about the utility of that essay. The idea of dissolving knowledge into its formal ingredients is exciting in and of itself. Yet, to fulfill my…Knowledge8 min readKnowledge8 min read
Apr 19, 2022The Perception-Language-Knowledge ComplexThe possibility that knowledge wasn’t a standalone entity did not occur to me early on. I had to go for a while thinking about knowledge as a thing on its own. Just to realize more than once that the discussion gets mixed “out of necessity” with other aspects. The first…Knowledge5 min readKnowledge5 min read
Published inBootcamp·Feb 9, 2022Negative Spaces and Complexified ObjectsThree years ago as I was reading “Topology through Inquiry”, I had a struck of inspiration. It lead me to rethink the fundamentals of Sets to account for the concept of a hole. I wrote everything down and until yesterday, these ideas were nothing but scribbles hidden between the pages. …Mathematics6 min readMathematics6 min read
Published inBootcamp·Feb 4, 2022Codithm, A Universal Pattern Design LanguageThere is definitely something remarkable in doing things by hand. An involvement with the matter than no alternative can match. The act of expression on paper is powerful. Not only it gives you room to perform but also the contemplate your performance as it unfolds. It is intuitive and unforgettable. …Coding5 min readCoding5 min read
Published inBootcamp·Feb 1, 2022The Core Elements of CodingIt has been twenty-years since I had my first PC; a gift from my late uncle. I was about five back then. A Windows 95 that came with a lot of exploration games; a perfect environment for the kid I was. Until, … I got curious about how to take…Coding6 min readCoding6 min read
