From: Amavect <amavect@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] rip mycroftiv
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:11:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGOW0YNyUS+Q2ae_sF-2RCrQB5NT_ayDkc+8xvVUSL6PJhO=_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FFF28F06-B213-4AB6-9590-6F0AE8A02D5E@stanleylieber.com>
I have only just learned of this... to say that his passing hurts is
an understatement.
My general absence for the past year only dulls it a bit.
I stumbled into the 9grid chat in late 2018 and found community there,
so I spent the next 3 years there.
I was introduced to what Plan 9 could do, and what it could be.
A remote disk, plumber, and pipe as a chatroom, all hacked together in harmony.
mycroftiv was the only person I knew who could chat with me about math
on a deeply technical and philosophical level, and I to him as well.
Our conversations revolved around the hierarchy of infinity, the
hypercubic topology of binary, and what math means in reality.
Purplechess, the puzzle game of binary traversal on a chess board,
grew from our chats and my work on various UI tools and bytebeat
music.
He had said that umbraticus and I laid the groundwork, but it was he
who saw how they fit together.
A move only changes 1 bit at a time, so one could imagine walking from
corner-to-corner on an 8-dimensional hypercube.
He didn't just imagine, he experienced it.
My favorite idea of his is metaphysical namespace binding.
A book would bind the story to present reality in a very real way.
A song would bind the presence of the first performance to now, the
performers, composers, and listeners.
And he has bound himself to my world.
Thanks,
Amavect
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-26 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-19 20:12 Stanley Lieber
2022-07-19 21:16 ` Thaddeus Woskowiak
2022-07-19 22:44 ` Mack Wallace
2022-07-19 23:18 ` Jacob Moody
2022-07-19 23:56 ` V.M. Haas
2022-07-20 2:59 ` william
2022-07-22 16:37 ` Jacob Moody
2022-07-20 9:07 ` Tom Schwindl
2022-07-20 15:09 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2022-07-26 4:11 ` Amavect [this message]
2022-08-25 11:49 ` umbraticus
2022-08-25 19:02 ` qwx
2022-08-26 1:53 ` Amavect
2022-08-26 2:57 ` Thaddeus Woskowiak
2022-07-26 4:35 ` Amavect
2022-07-26 4:51 ` william
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