miniblog.

There are labels that make technology ideas sound more exciting. For example, 'augmented intelligence' was used early in the history of computing. (A pocket calculator would qualify but it's less cool.) Is there a good term for this phenomenon? It's hype that inspired projects.

I'm changing method definition syntax in my language: // old fun (this: Int) inc(): Int { this + 1 } // new method inc(this: Int): Int { this + 1 } The original syntax was inspired by Go, but the new syntax is more grep-friendly and perhaps more readable. Not sure about the verbosity though. Thoughts?

The vast majority of 'external brain' systems seem to based on hyperlinked text. This seems to be true for exocortex, memex or zettelcasten inspired designs. This is great for reading, but you can't do DB queries to answer questions. What would a 'semantic web' design look like?