Arto Bendiken
Arto Bendiken
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ASIMOV Protocol at the NEAR Town Hall
Interview with The National
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2024/03/18/dubai-based-entrepreneur-creating-personal-ai-assistant-to-be-a-lifelong-companion/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240325110717/https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2024/03/18/dubai-based-entrepreneur-creating-personal-ai-assistant-to-be-a-lifelong-companion/
Open Letter to Marc Andreessen
Dear Mr. Andreessen, I was saddened but unsurprised to observe that your recent Techno-Optimist Manifesto received more than its share of negative coverage in America and Europe. Your armchair critics in the press highlighted how they’d read your 5,000-word manifesto “so [we] don’t have to” , and, smug in their luxury beliefs, lambasted your audacity in defending or—God forbid—promoting capitalism…
Interview with AI Time Journal
https://www.aitimejournal.com/arto-bendiken-cto-of-haltia-ai-on-privacy-trust-and-ethical-ai-in-the-world-of-personal-ai/47157/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231212080551/https://www.aitimejournal.com/arto-bendiken-cto-of-haltia-ai-on-privacy-trust-and-ethical-ai-in-the-world-of-personal-ai/47157/
Meet the Team: Arto Bendiken
https://aurora.dev/blog/meet-the-team-arto-bendiken-aurora-lab-s-co-founder-cto https://web.archive.org/web/20231212080403/https://aurora.dev/blog/meet-the-team-arto-bendiken-aurora-lab-s-co-founder-cto
Humans of NEAR: Arto Bendiken
https://medium.com/nearprotocol/humans-of-near-arto-bendiken-179159f3a115 https://web.archive.org/web/20231212080239/https://medium.com/nearprotocol/humans-of-near-arto-bendiken-179159f3a115
Building Arweave Smart Contracts with Clarity
Stacks Grants Demo Day
Cypherpunk Bitstream: Pandemic II
Cypherpunk Bitstream: Pandemic I
Тіло веде рахунок: мозок, думка та тіло у лікуванні травми
Це резюме книги було спочатку опубліковане Тіаґо Форте , англійською мовою . Переклад на українську Юлії Олех . (This book summary originally published in English by Tiago Forte . Translation into Ukrainian by Yulia Olekh .) Беручи цю книгу до рук уперше, я не міг уявити, навіщо мені вона. Це книга про травму – чим вона є, звідки береться та як її лікувати. Але ж я ніколи не страждав від…
Make Your Own Neural Network with Ruby
Building a Home Security System with Elixir and Nerves
In Search of Silver Bullets for Polyglots
A Post-Libertarian Realpolitik
Interactive Robotics with Elixir and Nerves
The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones
Originally published as a book review in my Goodreads account . Disappointing overall, and at times shallow and boring. One emerges with the assessment that the two authors are easily impressed by surface-level phenomena. They maintain that narratives taught in civics class suffice to illuminate the origins and practice of politics. They perceive a simple world, where stated intentions equal…
The Warrior Ethos
Originally published as a book review in my Goodreads account . As a fan of Pressfield’s historical fiction and as a student of military history, I was predisposed to like this short book of historical anecdotes and commentary on the warrior ethos; more’s the pity that it turned out to be significantly problematic. You see, a naive reading would miss that this is ultimately an encomium…
Nexus
Originally published as a book review in my Goodreads account . I ended up reading this roller-coaster of a cyberpunk thriller in one sitting. It’s a fantastic debut and an impressive depiction of a plausible enough near future on the fast track to a technological singularity. To introduce a noob to transhumanism, I’d prescribe Nexus followed by Accelerando and Diaspora , which should…
The Martian
Originally published as a book review in my Goodreads account . I read this in one go. Near-future hard science fiction at its finest, this is the ultimate marooned-on-an-island story—where the island is a barren desert world twenty light-minutes past the horizon, and you’re stuck at the bottom of its gravity well with a dwindling food and oxygen supply, no means of egress, and no…
The Unlicense: The First Year in Review
It’s Public Domain Day again, and it’s now been exactly a year since I first introduced the Unlicense.org initiative: an easy-to-use template and process intended to help coders waive their copyright and dedicate all their code to the public domain with no strings attached. It seems a good time for a brief recap of the happenings on this front over the last 365 days. A year ago, the…
Licensed, License-Free, and Unlicensed Code
As discussed on the Unlicense.org mailing list , the notion of “licensing something under the Unlicense” is a not infrequent misunderstanding that calls for better explanations as to the essential difference between licensed, license-free, and unlicensed code. I will attempt to break it back down to the fundamentals and work upwards from there. To begin, it’s useful to briefly…
A Thousand Lakes of Red Blood on White Snow
Over a bottle of Swedish vodka, a friend and I recently drifted on to the topic of Molotov cocktails . In case you don’t know, that is not a drink actually served at any cocktail parties. But depending on your audience, its story could make for a good cocktail party yarn. Here follows a brief history of the little-known subarctic origins of the Molotov cocktail in the epic Russo-Finnish…
Dissecting the Unlicense: Software Freedom in Four Clauses and a Link
I've previously written on the motivation that led us to formulate the Unlicense , a template for dedicating your software to the public domain . Today, I will elucidate the rationale for and the provenance of each of the four brief paragraphs (plus footer) that constitute the Unlicense. The Unlicense combines a public domain dedication and copyright waiver patterned after those of the well-known…
Set Your Code Free
Today is Public Domain Day , in honor of which I m hereby relicensing (or more properly, unlicensing ) all of my software into the public domain. As the public domain is these days unfortunately somewhat an obscure concept to many people, and disclaiming copyright interest in open-source software seems at present a relatively rare phenomenon (though there exist some notable examples ), I will…
Unlicense
https://unlicense.org The Unlicense is a template for disclaiming copyright monopoly interest in software you’ve written; in other words, it is a template for dedicating your software to the public domain. It combines a copyright waiver patterned after the very successful public domain SQLite project with the no-warranty statement from the widely-used MIT/X11 license.
Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire
This is a transcript of Prof. Joseph Peden's 50-minute lecture 'Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire' given at the Seminar on Money and Government in Houston, Texas on October 27, 1984. The original audio recording is available courtesy of the Mises Institute . I have commissioned this transcript in the hope that you may find it as interesting and educational as I did. Kudos to Joshua…
The Road to Enlightenment Is Littered with Irritating, Superfluous Parentheses
Originally published at http://bendiken.net/2007/01/01/the-road-to-lisp and the ALU Wiki . I, Arto Bendiken , do solemnly offer these my responses to The Road to Lisp Survey : When did you first try Lisp seriously, and which Lisp family member was it? I read Peter Seibel s Practical Common Lisp and Paul Graham s On Lisp sometime in mid-2005 or thereabouts. Both proved to be useful introductions to…