Szymon Kaliski - "Programmable Ink"

He demonstrates a really slick programmable constraint solver that works from diagrams. See On Getting Machines to do Stuff and How Could One Unify CMU and MIT.

This was held in St. Louis, Missouri. 

See also https://www.inkandswitch.com/ (and https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut and https://www.inkandswitch.com/untangle). 

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8:10 On the programming model. See constraint solvers and type inference ideas in On Getting Machines to do Stuff and A New Kind of Science and John Baez and Mike Stay's 2009 paper Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone and David Jaz Maiers - Compositionality via 2-algebra.

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You can do things like this in that world too. See Thinking About How AI Can Make Better Programmers, ...


 

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Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose on Software as Computational Media and "Personal Digital Sovereignty" 


See https://www.klokmose.net/clemens/ 

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See Nir Lichtman's 12-minute Linux Distribution Video.

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See The Wall of Sound - a collaborative sampler/sequencer in public space:

Also Interactive Public Sound Art: a case study (2006) by David Birchfield, Kelly Phillips, Assegid Kidané and David Lorig.

This is why what these big tech bullshit AI companies are doing is actually a crime against humanity. See What is Formal Logic?

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