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?
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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?
Excellent article discussing the bytecode used to fit text adventure games on early PCs with tiny RAM: https://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm
ZIL was lisp-inspired, heavily optimised string storage (5.5 bytes per character!) and had some fun opcodes that were very specific to text games.