🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo @mur2501
Just added a forum post

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/risc-v-and-arm-development/618

May make it easier to collate information.

@freemo @mur2501
There is a tutorial here on the 8085 processor,
RISC V is more open

https://riscv.org/

Arm Developer site

https://developer.arm.com/

I think ARM is related to RISC V in some way, as RISC is Reduced Instruction Set Computer, where as ARM is Advanced Risk Machine or something.

Could be a good starting point as there are a lot of RISC / Arm Boards out there.

Hey @freemo
I want to explore microprocessor designing (semiconductor fabrication in general) can you help as I don't know where to start in my learning of electronics circuit stuffs also can you show me some good softwares and tools which I can use in my learning??

@georgia We. Have. Magic.

>magic: The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them

I am typing this on a slab of glass that glows, buzzes, sings, and sees because we taught a sand golem how to think. A collective of thousands of mages, warlocks, witches, and all sorts of sorcerers contributed to the tomes upon tomes of knowledge and intricate spells that keep this pocket golem alive. I use it to write minor enchantments of my own.

If you think fantasy magic would look any different from what we have discovered and invented today, you are ignoring human nature. The same structures and processes you see with our technology are the exact same that would have developed with bona fide fantasy magic. Microsoft and Apple would exist, and they would build magic mirrors for businesses, and little nice-looking enchanted slabs for rich people. They would curse you if you tried to discover their workings, as that's Microsoft or Apple's intellectual property. Google would exist, and it would offer you a free crystal ball that shows you ads half of the time, all while Google's own golems looked back through it to record what you like. @chj0 would be summoning deprecated types of imps just to try and get them to do some weird trick. I would have studied the creation and maintenance of the magical channels that connect our various charms and trinkets. Opal would constantly be mad at how clunky the existing spells and rituals are, and vowing to write her own from scratch. Textbooks and papers would be written to fill the asinine magical theory circlejerk that modern math and science have become, and academic publishers would keep them locked up just like they do now. Most people would still be ignorant of the inner workings of the tools they use. A butcher doesn't care if he rings up your pound of ham on a magic record book or a cash register, so long as he can see how much he sold, and he doesn't need to figure out the taxes in his head.

You flip a light switch. The light comes on. There is no functional difference between some ethereal force powering it, and electricity.

Nesting #dinosaur in the #Arctic : despite constant darkness in winter and cool condition in summer, they were non-migratory species, which raises the question of their possible #endothermy (again). #science #biology #paleontology
📄 Druckenmiller et al (2021) Nesting at extreme polar latitudes by non-avian dinosaurs. Current Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.041

"The payload computer aboard the Hubble Space Telescope ... has stopped working"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/world/hubble-space-telescope-problem-nasa-scn/index.html

Me on a diet:

@freemo
Got another addition today!

@freemo @khird This all sounds like a contextual “web of trust” scheme, there’s quite a bit of prior art in web of trust, not sure about contextualizing it like this, but it seems like a minor enhancement (one separate web of trust per context, rules for cross-context trust would be the only complicated part).

@freemo @khird
https://getaether.net/docs/faq/voting_and_elections/

@freemo I think you're right in that it should be a trust network, but not in that it should be an automated system applying rules to determine who's trusted.

I see it working something like your browser's certificate store - you add "editor certificates" to your profile on the qoto-journal webapp in the same way you add "root certificates" to your browser. Each editor forwards submissions to his pool of reviewers and signs the articles they recommend for publication. If an article is accompanied by the signature of an editor you trust, the article shows up in your view of the journal. If an editor includes malicious or incompetent reviewers in his pool, and consequently becomes known for publishing bad papers, people will stop trusting his certificate.

I think an automated system would be prone to people gaming the rules, and the reader wouldn't have the fallback of just revoking an editor's certificate in case things got out of hand. For instance, if I were to try and exploit the rules in your example:
- I might review papers totally outside my competence, because although my experience in fluid dynamics is totally irrelevant to, say, political science, the rules award my review of one equal credit to the other
- I might find another author and set up a tit-for-tat scheme to give each other five free points every iteration, no matter the quality of our papers

What worries me is that if the system initially develops a reputation for being easy to game and accepting of low-quality content, it will be very hard to shed that reputation later on, even if improvements are made. So it needs to be done right the first time.