There is a very small area of overlap in the Venn diagram of geeky stuff I pay attention to and stuff my 14 year old cares about, but a Sasquatch emoji is solidly in that space http://blog.unicode.org/2025/07/say-hello-to-new-emoji-coming-in.html
Jeffrey Pomerantz
@pomerantz
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Information scientist. Recovering academic. Founder of Proximal Design Labs, maker of educational VR. Author of the book Metadata, and coming soon Standards, from @themitpress https://jeffrey.pomerantz.name/
Now that I’m affiliated with Harvard I get to use their libraries, which is exciting enough. I took this book out of the Widener and holy cow will you look at that. The catalog record doesn’t say anything about it being signed. They do not even know what they have.
But wait, there's more. The authors of this 1987 @NASA report "endorse the TCP/IP protocol as the standard to be used"... for now. But recommend "the eventual migration to the ISO/OSI protocol when practical." We're still waiting. For a while, it really seemed like OSI was going to win that standards war.
Here's a paleofuture for you. I'm reading a @NASA report from 1987, as one does. There was a survey done at the American Astronomical Society & Canadian Astronomical Society 1987 joint meeting. Among other things, it asked what "remote data access network" was used on respondents' campuses. BITNET was the clear winner.
Another in my occasional series of "papers that I find entertaining," I give you:
Quantum Random Lunch Generator (QRLG)
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22605.55524
Lunch is important and choosing where to have lunch is difficult. In this paper we demonstrate use of quantum randomness to find a place to eat, thus shifting the decision-making to the vacuum fluctuations of the universe. This QRLG is made publicly available.
Quantum Random Lunch Generator (QRLG)
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22605.55524
Lunch is important and choosing where to have lunch is difficult. In this paper we demonstrate use of quantum randomness to find a place to eat, thus shifting the decision-making to the vacuum fluctuations of the universe. This QRLG is made publicly available.
My recent article with @Griffey was translated into Dutch. Zeker een primeur voor mij! https://www.beste-id.nl/salon/het-antikapitalistische-verhaal-van-de-standaarden
griffeyMy recent article with Jeff Pomerantz was translated into Dutch! I think that's a first for me...
https://www.beste-id.nl/salon/het-antikapitalistische-verhaal-van-de-standaarden
I (and my co-author @pomerantz) have an essay up at MIT Reader that's an extension of some of the ideas in the book. Would love any feedback, as we're still working the ideas out ourselves, but we both think there's something interesting there.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/
@Griffey and I have published a follow-up piece to our @themitpress book Standards. It’s… let’s just say it’s strongly worded. Three cheers for the Press, for being so supportive. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/
Looking through some old National Academies Press reports and came across this absurdly melodramatic cover https://doi.org/10.17226/4765
