This post discusses how the author doesn't think wikis and blogs converge at all, if ever.
Chalk one up for my theory on their mutual exclusivity.
Textile is an awesome way to format text. It's always what I thought of, but I guess this guy did all the heavy thinking for me. Now all I have to do is let go of my ego...
Oh thank Zeus! This page is the best page. I mean, I know there has been wiki/blog research out there, and I know I've been putting a lot of it off, but there's no day like today. So here goes.
The falsifiability factor in science is congruent with NT personality type of liking to point out mistakes or things that are wrong. Blah blah and so and so is correct and can stand until we can prove it wrong! Because, you know, proving things wrong is so much fun. Since, after that, we can make a fake, weak corollary and say that we're right. Mwahaha...
So I'm in Geo an the professor asks us a question about statisics... The class has no idea what's going on, I have no idea what's going on... Eventually, the discussion comes to whose model has a better fit to the actual statistics. Absolute value of the difference versus the square of the difference. I don't know yet, but this guy seems to know. Maybe I should ask Dr. Spencer...
Sharing is an interesting problem, and may be addressed, but I feel it is explicitly secondary in priority to solving the problem in the non-shared domain. (But, we should think about it up front, because that kind of thing tends to be hard to retrofit.)
Wow, I suddenly love that word. Retrofit. It's the exact concept I think about when I think about programming towards a goal and without a plan... That is, do you program what just works, or do you always keep the grand scheme in mind? Because sometimes, the grand scheming gets in the way of whats practical. I forgot what software engineering concept that is, but I've always thought about it. Yup... Retrofitting.
I love the prefix retro. It's so... Fetch.
Given a constant resource K that has to be assigned to N categories (think the caste system in SimAnt), the use of one-dimensional sliders would simulate the existence of dimensions that would otherwise be unavailable.
For N = 1, all members of the population belong to the category, thus there is no discriminating description for that category.
For N = 2, members of the population have to subscribe to a given polarity. Yin or Yang. Red or green. Up or down. Maybe a little bit of both. Either way, the member must belong in 100% capactiy to either or both extremes.
For N = 3 (see SimAnt), three forces are at work (think of the Triforce from Zelda). How is Link feeling? Wise, powerful, or courageous? Concentration in a given division results in the cross-hair of the graph to lie within that corner. Lying in the middle results in a complete equilibrium between all three forces. Lying on the midpoint of an edge on the graph results in an equilibrium between two forces and neglects the third.
For N = 4, the shape is the tetrahedron, which is very difficult to express in a two-dimensional plane. For that reason, we can resort to sliders of strength. These sliders are one-dimensional in a different type, measuring the presence and absence of each philsophy. But the values here are relative, not absolute. If all of the sliders are at zero, then the ratio between them all is one. If the sliders are all pumped at 1 or 100%, then the ratio between them is still one. If one slider is maxed out and the others are at zero, then that one force will get all of the members or resouces. Two sliders at max will merit equal attention between them, but a ratio of attention to the third.
I was thinking about this when I thought about improving Wincue... And on Wincue, what of Wincue versus JTFE (Jump to File Extended)? Although JTFE seeks to replace a similar market, I still feel as if Wincue has the philosphy more correct. It's easier to imagine what tracks come directly before an after in a playlist in a linear order, rather than in the case of JTFE, where a massive playlist is cycled in random.
Features that are preventing Wincue from being perfect... Lack of library support. JTFE is built in to using the existing library of Winamp. So too should Wincue. Global hot keys. JTFE is available in one hyper-hyper-keystroke, completely eliminating the need for the mouse.
And with Wincue, I was thinking of "bins", or collections that satisfy my criteria and very much resemble playlists... From these bins, Wincue would select songs. But what of party mode? And selecting songs from an entire library? Well, the thing is, I like listening to certain artists sometimes, or certain playlists. That's where I used JTFE. But at the same time, I hate hate hate having the flow of music interrupted (that's where Wincue comes in). Wincue seems to be in a better shape of addressing this detriment, so to Wincue goes my faith (however well-programmed JTFE is).
So, I'm listening to some jazz as of now, but I'd like my next songs to be a cappella. I'd like to "heavily influence" the Wincue engine to look in my a cappella bin or a cappella playlist. I call them bins because they wouldn't necessariy play the entire playlist, and would only select from them as a reposititory.
And now on to the use of sliders... Each bin should have a weight. Because as much as I love a cappella music, sometimes you'd still want to mix it up. Hence, not a completely mathematical inclusiveness, but a heavy, heavy influence on the rotation... I'd pump up the strength of the a cappella bin, and maybe lessen the Library bin. Either way, the music would keep playing, without interruptions of any kind.
The main point of bringing up N-dimensional sliders is that each bin would represent a different dimension. And it would be more benefiticial to allow a potential infinite number of bins rather than cap it at three and use the triangle graph, which seems kind of hokey anyway. Besides, standard widgets already exist for sliders.
This is where I'll post all of my research type stuff. Hopefully stuff from class and the one or three great ideas I have...