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Four short links: 26 January 2018

Bitcoin, Ted Nelson, Constraint Modeling, and NLP

By Nat Torkington
January 26, 2018
  1. Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble (Steven Johnson) — a fine exegesis of the thesis that blockchain tech is a return to the open-to-innovation protocols of the early days of the internet. Right now, the only real hope for a revival of the open-protocol ethos lies in the blockchain.
  2. Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn From The Past — We thought computing would be artisinal. We did not imagine large monopolies. We thought the Citizen Programmer would be the leader.

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  3. MiniZinc — a free and open source constraint modeling language. See also Hakan Kjellerstrand‘s page on it. (via Hacker News)
  4. How to Solve 90% of NLP Problems: A Step-by-Step Guide — with an interactive notebook!
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