I'm hardly alone and go to send that one of the largest problems facing us is computer science industry right now is that we have rampant complexity is just too much goddamn complexity.
So it's return first principles find a cleaning clear basic notation laws of form notation is a basic clear and very easy-to-use translates directly into digital logic circuits can emulate CPUs and design new CPUs.\nThese things will be easy-to-understand easy to teach, and also easier reason about and feed to things such as the total machine.
Oberon System provides user interface metaphor superior as well as complete and well integrated system and a small package again it's easy to learn and teach and use. Plus well-documented.\nI have a strong suspicion that although there may be others there is a certain essence or simplicity to the laws of form basis and then adding on the joy language metaphor or notation and then using the higher order software metaphor as a guide to implementation.\nThe form of software that should've all is more or less single corpus with variants of the single corpus being like how the Oberon system has everything included and one CodeBase and you're just extending it you don't have one central CodeBase that is extended but re-factored extended re-factored integrates and supply in all the pushbutton intention.
That flight we have a reasonable software system we can begin to implement things like the narrative interface theatrical design Jeff please her face and have personally have had a hard time explaining\u2026\nEssentially our nervous system allows us to notice small cues like a tiny twitch in the corner of your eye can grab your attention let you know that you know the dogs there or shut subtle shift of your cats body language but you know whether it's hungry or wants to go outside or whatever 40 meals for paying attention to the reason why our display systems and peripherals couldn't achieve the kinds of subtlety resolution needed to engage with these companies when you're logical systems on humans we need to get to the point where our computers are instead of inscrutable masses mostly hidden rules they're very simple mechanisms that it responded very so please understand ways but with a great degree of discrimination subtlety such that you don't just like whiteys Marshall metaphor but just a guess sword is a decisive or simple device Marlice at Olathe lever with you sharpen bitch but people talk about when you get really good at swordplay outcomes an extension of your arm the same thing happens with any tool or thing that he's physically for one time even though to look self maybe somewhat subtle you can extend your sensorium and your intention your motor muscles memory into the tools speak and it literally become something like an extension of your body just like your arm is essentially here's your skeleton in your arm and your flesh form such as framing\nHow to use the first place and I stress going to it and just learn how to adapt it and that's part of your structure so our computer systems to be like that but currently they're digging form of like broom or a hammer or sword it's mushy and that you can't get that kind of reliability to keep shifting like quicksand or mosher Puddy under your hand as you try to use so that's where current system suck and that's why I think this new system will be better since much simpler and relaxing very direct interface pushbutton he\n automatically no way but then we can make it subtle and detect you know find gradations of your order bottle outputs as it is and for peripheral and it can display fine no visual cues and things that engage your nervous system smore speaking its own language as opposed to just to know hey look we can make decent flasher flop up-and-down is not terrific let's let's make it apparel ask the background image as you scroll are we special accessing you know you do because you can not because the deal is spectacular for the particular kind of information you're trying to present or because it really enhances your document it's stylistic thing right ourselves where is Francis you have some's resume in your face it also includes kind of painting or moving around you could have the background shifting into me and parallax and it's actually giving you kind of 3-D psychological map remodeling reference point you know for how the things the virtual space return are trying to move."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Ongoing Quest for the \u2018Brain\u2019 Chip"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/31/the-ongoing-quest-for-the-brain-chip/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_carapace","story_8977912"],"author":"carapace","children":[8978181,8978215,8978353],"comment_text":"Please,
I'm hardly alone and go to send that one of the largest problems facing us is computer science industry right now is that we have rampant complexity is just too much goddamn complexity.
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Oberon System provides user interface metaphor superior as well as complete and well integrated system and a small package again it's easy to learn and teach and use. Plus well-documented.\nI have a strong suspicion that although there may be others there is a certain essence or simplicity to the laws of form basis and then adding on the joy language metaphor or notation and then using the higher order software metaphor as a guide to implementation.\nThe form of software that should've all is more or less single corpus with variants of the single corpus being like how the Oberon system has everything included and one CodeBase and you're just extending it you don't have one central CodeBase that is extended but re-factored extended re-factored integrates and supply in all the pushbutton intention.
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