Curt Doolittle

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  • (Oversing in its current iteration rocks. take me a bit longer but it’s awesome.

    (Oversing in its current iteration rocks. take me a bit longer but it’s awesome. Time for “DrudgeBook” running on Oversing.)

  • (Oversing in its current iteration rocks. take me a bit longer but it’s awesome.

    (Oversing in its current iteration rocks. take me a bit longer but it’s awesome. Time for “DrudgeBook” running on Oversing.)

  • Updated Feb 27, 2018, 6:48 AM

    Updated Feb 27, 2018, 6:48 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 06:48:00 UTC

  • Runcible

    For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel. In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an educational computer. In The Diamond Age, the Runcible is effectively priceless, and while designed for a princess, ends up in the hands of a poor young girl who eventually, due to its tutelage, conducts a Revolution. RUNCIBLE is also the name of a computer program compiler for an early (late 1950s) programming language. Donald Knuth published the flowchart of the compiler in 1959;[12] this was his first academic paper. The Straight Dope, while treating “runcible” as a nonsense word with no particular meaning, claims that an unspecified 1920s source connected the word “runcible” etymologically to Roncevaux — the connection being that a runcible spoon’s cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The Straight Dope adds that “modern students of runciosity” link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective “rouncival”, meaning “gigantic”, also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region. “Runcible” is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears several times in his works, most famously as the “runcible spoon”.

  • Runcible

    For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel. In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an educational computer. In The Diamond Age, the Runcible is effectively priceless, and while designed for a princess, ends up in the hands of a poor young girl who eventually, due to its tutelage, conducts a Revolution. RUNCIBLE is also the name of a computer program compiler for an early (late 1950s) programming language. Donald Knuth published the flowchart of the compiler in 1959;[12] this was his first academic paper. The Straight Dope, while treating “runcible” as a nonsense word with no particular meaning, claims that an unspecified 1920s source connected the word “runcible” etymologically to Roncevaux — the connection being that a runcible spoon’s cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The Straight Dope adds that “modern students of runciosity” link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective “rouncival”, meaning “gigantic”, also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region. “Runcible” is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears several times in his works, most famously as the “runcible spoon”.

  • RUNCIBLE For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a comp

    RUNCIBLE

    For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel.

    In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an educational computer.

    In The Diamond Age, the Runcible is effectively priceless, and while designed for a princess, ends up in the hands of a poor young girl who eventually, due to its tutelage, conducts a Revolution.

    RUNCIBLE is also the name of a computer program compiler for an early (late 1950s) programming language. Donald Knuth published the flowchart of the compiler in 1959;[12] this was his first academic paper.

    The Straight Dope, while treating “runcible” as a nonsense word with no particular meaning, claims that an unspecified 1920s source connected the word “runcible” etymologically to Roncevaux — the connection being that a runcible spoon’s cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The Straight Dope adds that “modern students of runciosity” link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective “rouncival”, meaning “gigantic”, also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region.

    “Runcible” is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears several times in his works, most famously as the “runcible spoon”.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-30 15:47:00 UTC

  • Updated Oct 20, 2017, 2:56 PM

    Updated Oct 20, 2017, 2:56 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-10-20 14:56:00 UTC

  • Updated Oct 20, 2017, 2:55 PM

    Updated Oct 20, 2017, 2:55 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-10-20 14:55:00 UTC

  • UPDATE: It looks like we are going to move the company to the states where costs

    UPDATE: It looks like we are going to move the company to the states where costs of administration are lower, legal costs and flexibility are higher, venture capital is more friendly and available.

    As part of this move we will likely jump directly to phase two, and rename the product ‘Runcible’ and possibly the company to ‘Runcible’ as well. (See Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age for reference.) I have held the company name in reserve for the second phase.

    – Our product provides a single interface for every activity in every organization.

    – Architecturally it’s a game engine with workflows and scripting available to ordinary power users – without developers.

    – Every item can have an associated financial transaction.

    – It has a social ‘economy’ and a reward system and ‘variables’.

    – The general idea is that it is possible to build very large but very flat organizations – even networks of organizations.

    – The novel idea is that the system gathers information and provides you feedback about yourself, your group, your company and the market – sort of like how facebook provides it to advertisers but hides it from you, we reverse that relationship and provide you with information about you relative to your peers (competitors).

    Source date (UTC): 2017-10-18 11:50:00 UTC

  • I Know This Phase Of The Work Isn”t That Interesting

    I KNOW THIS PHASE OF THE WORK ISN”T THAT INTERESTING (From Curt Doolittle: via VK.com) I know that working on “Grammars of Commensurability and therefore Decidability- both Inflationary, and Deflationary” is not terribly interesting to most followers. Any more so than the period I was working on Testimonial Truth was. Unfortunately, the edifice depends upon the logic and grammar of truthful speech. It’s this truthful speech, and the method of analysis that is required to produce it, that is the foundation of propertarianism. Testimonialism provides the grammar, property-in-toto provides the vocabulary, and acquisitionism provides the logic. So while I appreciate everyone’s interest when I’m talking about either psychology, sociology, western uniqueness, religion, market fascism, and revolution, the ability to understand these ideas, and to demand them in practice, is predicated upon the ability to put the arguments forward truthfully: meaning in deflationary, commensurable prose. But the rest of the work is not so technical, and should be more accessible – and more interesting. 😉 Hugs all.