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I moved this folder. Keeping this repo up for archival purposes only.
13 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2019-11-22 · latest 2023-01-17
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…could be a fun project. I have not taken a stab at it yet and would be interested in any prior art. https://github.com/treenotation/research/issues/4
comment by breck · 2021-08-17 · in Difference between dialogue, discussion, and debate -
…of law, just like you want to minimize the complexity of code. I have a new way to do that: https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/... 2D Languages will be the future of the law and democracy.
comment by breck · 2021-06-24 · in Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank -
…program and spits out a lego vis (something like LDraw), and maybe that will help explain the idea https://github.com/treenotation/research/issues/33
comment by breck · 2021-03-11 · in Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome -
…is to recursively build grammars as trees in 2-D Cartesian space. Then you just count the elements. https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/... It's still in its infancy, but it is very pragmatic and very useful.
comment by breck · 2021-02-18 · in Jane Austen's concept of information (Not Claude Shannon's) (2013) -
…Sorry, I thought I made a latex version of this somewhere. I found some old notes that I uploaded: https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/lisp/re... > Or even better, is there a sample code which demonstrates the advantages >…
comment by breck · 2021-02-17 · in A second look at "no code" tools (2019) -
I wrote a paper called "Counting Complexity" ( https://github.com/treenotation/research/tree/master/papers/... ). In it are the beginnings of a new simple universal way to measure complexity. The "real-world benefits" are that you can…
comment by breck · 2021-02-06 · in Complexity Explained -
…for a simple Tree Language that compiles to WASM for years but just haven't found the time ( https://github.com/treenotation/research/issues/7 ). If anyone wants to explore that space, happy to help!
comment by breck · 2021-01-29 · in Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019) -
Here is the paper: https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/... It's not that traditional a style as I had no experience in academia until after I published it on arxiv, but I still stand by basically all of it. For the…
comment by breck · 2020-12-18 · in Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf] -
…complexity, so that you can compare two "complex" solutions and pick the less "complicated" one: https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/... SVG form: https://treenotation.org/demos/complexityCanBeCounted.svg
comment by breck · 2020-12-13 · in Why software ends up complex -
…one as well and am biased and think it is the best way to rigorously define simplicity/complexity: https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/...
comment by breck · 2019-11-22 · in The Danger of “Simplicity”