Category: outside

  • LLM Coding: Generative Sequences

    What are generative sequences, and how do they support unfolding wholeness & living structures? What is a Generative Sequence? What makes a good Generative Sequence? The Generative Power of Words Generative Sequences as a form of Writing Generative Sequences as Knowledge Containers

  • LLM Coding: Unfolding Wholeness & Living Structures

    I’ve been working extensively with LLM-assisted coding. I’ve been applying (almost exclusively) a writing style I’ve developed and practiced for a few years, inspired by “Generative Sequences.” To explain why I used this writing style and why (I think) it has served me well, I need to provide some context and terminology related to generative…

  • Michael Levin | Cell Intelligence in Physiological and Morphological Spaces

    came to me via Bonnitta Roy

  • How Electricity Actually Works

    I remember when I studied electronics and electricity in high school I was able to do the math ( V = IR ). It was presented to me as something “very intuitive” but it didn’t feel intuitive to me … and I didn’t dare to ask, because if it was “obviously intuitive” and I wasn’t…

  • Aphantasia?

    This came to me via Bonnitta Roy: When I shared this with Sunni she asked me if I feel I have this … and this was my answer: I am not sure that “it” is really a thing. I do not trust the dichotomies of “it-ness” that mechanistic thinking likes to assume and impose. I…

  • The Madame Butterfly Effect

    This podcast episode on ripples through history by Daryl Cooper is a gem … if I could, I would hand him my “podcast episode of the year” award! “Why were there Japanese people in an Israeli airport killing Puerto Rican Christians to support Arabs who hated Jews?” Daryl Cooper – Martyrmade Podcast A German named…

  • The Edge of Something

    This comes to me to compliment an impoverished philosophy. “I feel I am on the edge of something …” David Bohm

  • The Price of an Impoverished Philosophy

    I have and continue to avoid doctors not because of the drugs they prescribe but because of the mentality & mindset with which they look at me. First, this video in which Jordan Peterson (a renowned psychologist, researched, teacher who disappeared for almost a year) describes what he went through because of psychiatric medication: Then…

  • AlphaGo

    I enjoyed this documentary about AlphaGo – the AI that cracked the game of Go. However, I felt that there was another player at the table, an overlooked player: the qualitative outcome. Despite the potential complexity of the game of Go, its outcome is still a simplistic quantity: area conquered. I have a feeling that…

  • The Unfolding of 17th Century Amsterdam

    … reminder – you are looking at 100 years in a few minutes! via Yodan Rofe of Building Beauty

  • Sequence: The Difference Between a Novice and a Master

    The experienced carpenter keeps going … every action he performs, is calculated in such a way that some later action can put it right to the extent that it is imperfect now. What is critical here, is the sequence of events. The carpenter neves takes a step which he cannot correct later; so he can…

  • Autism Labeling

    This tweet appeared in my feed: Hey if you work in tech and you know you’re neurodivergent, please reply to this tweet if you’re willing to make yourself available to answer questions to other folks in tech who think they might be. We need to pull a chunk of us out of the matrix, which…

  • Bryan Ungard – Deliberately Developmental Organisations

    This came to me via Richard Bartlett and: Listening to it while reading Christopher Alexander’s A Timeless Way of Building feels almost eerie … as if Bryan is looking over my shoulder and re-whispering the book in my ear recontextualized from the architecture of buildings to the architecture of organizations. I felt a deep sense…

  • The Order of the Language

    Design is often thought of as a process of synthesis, a process of putting together things, a process of combination. According to this view, a whole is created by putting together parts. The parts come first: the the form of the whole comes second. But it is impossible to form anything which has the character…

  • Attention to Reality

    And it is in the end only when our feelings are perfectly in touch with the reality of forces, that we begin to see the patterns which are capable of generating life. That is what is hard – because so often people choose to put their own opinions forward, in place of reality. … Yet…

  • … not quite adding!?

    … not quite adding!?

    Ryan Singer posted this on twitter: “Adding” and “integration” are different operations: Adding: Bolt working wholes together w/ no problem solving. Integration: Solve lots of problems to connect parts together into a working whole. Complex problem? Orthogonalize into integration problems that can then be added. source I had to read it a couple of times…

  • Consequences

    Consequences

    There is a special time, a special transition … when I complete the asana part of practice and transition to pranayama and sitting. Today, just as that time arrived the world outside exploded with the noise of barking dogs … many dogs … our dogs and others. A neighbor came driving down the road from…

  • Palpable Organic Tension

    When I witnessed patterns that I felt “could be improved” I used to go right at the pattern and try “to make it better”. That approach didn’t seem to work very well for me. I now try to look beyond the surface pattern that caught my attention. I have come to prefer a different approach.…

  • Wholehearted

    Wholehearted

    A man is alive when he is wholehearted, true to himself, true to his own inner forces, and able to act freely according to the nature of the situations he is in … … it is a state of being in which all forces which arise in a man can find expression; he lives in…

  • Space is Not Mute

    Space is Not Mute

    … Here right now was the space of my building, as plain and fresh as it would ever be. And what it helped me to understand is that space is not mute, that it does speak to us, and hat we respond to it more directly, more viscerally, than all the cerebral, left brained talk…