Paragone

This is a bit beyond architecture, but being competent to build a mathematically bug-free API is probably something that few programmers would even bother trying to compete-against…

https://leanpub.com/algebra-driven-design

I think there is a fundamental mis-framing, throughout the entire software/development understanding…

I think that the architecture needs to be simultaneously agilely-devloped, but into an executable-model, a kind of toy-implimentation, so it is easy to change the architecture, low-cost, BEFORE one converts it into load-bearing, & therefore unchangeable architecture ( architecture’s the hardest thing to change, as it’s most-fundamental )

So, I think that the proper way is to do it in 2 stages:

1. agilely develop the architecture, until ALL required-kinds-of-function are working, in the toy-model, & one has re-architected it so that the structure is right, & then
2. set about converting it from the high-level-language to whatever production-language it is that is efficiency-optimal, for production-scale.

This is part of an idea from years ago: I read in a Wiley GAAP book that I happened to be glancing into, that it’s a violation of GAAP to prototype any project in any language other than the final-implimentation-language, & expense that prototype.

Which is totally insane!

Prototype in the highest-level-language you can, to get the domain+architecture right, then reimpliment what you have to in the most production-efficient/effective language for that project.

GAAP ( of that year ) is categorically wrong: it penalizes optimal-prototyping.

It was years-later before I discovered that an English mathematician ( roundish ginger, worked in Glasgow, no idea what his name was, sorry ) had studied the difference between complex projects which worked vs ones which died, & it was the visual-spacial-representation-of-the-model, & the complete-coverage executable-model which made the successes win.

So, I just put those ideas together.

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NON-sovereignty has greater risks.

Context, including Trump, matters.

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The gov’t forces who mow-down-with-bullets protestors are NOT beautiful, in my eyes.

A surprising fact, in my life, though, is that the holiest human I ever met in-person, was an Iranian man.

I’ve spent a week in a monastery, on retreat, & I’m saying that.

A couple decades ago, there was a US right-wing commentator, who competed with Rush Limbaugh, who established that it’d be best to simply nuke Iran, preemptively, in order to get rid of the US’s problem ( that their disobedience/not-being-colony was ).

Anne Coulter?

something like that.

Sociopathy, no matter how ideologically-convenient, is the wrong path.

So is idolization, in my view…

As that wonderful African man who explains in videos, showing how DR Congo & Rwanda are tangled-up, or other African endless-conflicts, says…

“it’s complicated”.

& ideologies/prejudices reject actuality’s being complicated.

Accuracy’s possible.

More difficult, but earnable.

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There WAS a video on yt by a Norwegian man on why OO languages push people into spreading side-effects throughout the code, whereas in Haskell, side-effects are optimally conserved to Main.hs

I can’t find that video, now.

He was on stage, a talk of some kind, not as formal as a university-lecture, so it was some conference, of some kind… ( in case anybody else finds it )

I think that that principle is contradicting what the article is saying… ( skimmed the rest, I think he’s generally right, but burying side-effects seems to be wrong, from Haskell’s perspective, & I think Haskell’s right, generally. )

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ttbomk, the companies don’t care.

It was a few years ago? when a woman in Taiwan showed a video where her co-worker could open her phone, because the face-recognition logic in Apple phones is calibrated to Whites, not to Asians.

I think that there are only 2 biometrics which ought be used:

1. bloodvessels-in-fingers/hands
2. retinas, blood-vessels again.

There are some diseases which monkey that, for people with those conditions, & injuries can monkey them too,

but making the bloodvessels-in-hands one be normal would mean that “ghoulies”, cloned fingerprints that someone wears as rubbery coverings on their fingers, iirc, would be blocked by that, so would the tape-copying-fingerprint trick…

& making it so that the retina-scan was only done in higher-security settings, & only where you have to peer into the machine, not where it’s scanning everybody who’s in the lobby ( another story I read ),

& having iris-scanning for people who have retina-degenerative-conditions/injuries, as backup…

etc…

Face-scanning’s a stupid “security”.

Got beaten-up? now you can’t open your phone.

Someone’s got you at gunpoint, & they just hold your phone up at you, & it unlocks?

That isn’t security, that is authority-theatre.

Which I’m fed-up with.

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You can’t have that percentage be higher than 20%, & have it work right.

50% & you’ve already reduced that market-segment to a 2-horse race or monopoly.

You have to prevent that, XOR you’re creating a national-dependency on “too big to fail” corporation, which is certain, sooner or later, to become a national footgun.

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Turing-machines can solve all the conventionally computable problems.

But only the quantum-computing can crack the NP-Hard/NP-Complete stuff.

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I’m from a different religion, therefore that doesn’t apply to me.

  d :

Early 2030’s, 7y after the Regional Consolidation Time ( what the Christians call The 1st Seal ) begins, which will be in the next month(s).

“A Time, Times, & Half-a-Time” means 7y, 4+decades, & 7/2=3.5 years, in their book of Rev.

The Muslim prediction for the durations is 8-7y, then 40y, btw.

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