Dan Grossman’s suggestions for a conceptual taxonomy of Programming Languages: [Syntax, Semantics, Idioms, Libraries, Tools],
his suggestion to consider new language constructs by: [Syntax, Type-checking, Evaluation],
My contemplation on those as more-or-less mnemonic-Lullian wheels
a more formal effort on my part to detail specific imagery for Douglas Hoff’s [@thinkaboutthebible] various SEA-IT data-types—corresponding to rows & columns for each individual “wheel”—by actually laying the details out in grid structures like Doug does in his books.
a (fairly personal) attempt to disambiguate the logical “structure” of SEA-IT datatypes as they pertain to both language and mnemonics.
It’s a “personal attempt” because the logic is (I presume) all there, I just don’t get it yet… or said another way: “I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.”
Edit: Looking into Dan Grossman’s ideas, I came across this Open SourceCornell University course & textbook with over 200 youtube videos to complement it in a playlist. It incorporates Dan’s taxonomy, and was most recently updated in November.
Believe it or not, this notion has been bouncing around in my head for some time now; probably because I’ve never heard it mentioned in this way beyond somebody wanting to use a videogame as a memory palace.
Is this an approach you’ve naturally arrived at yourself? I think a rules based education system has hampered my artistic tendencies to ‘go bananas’ in the space of imagination to some degree.
I think my brain would be quite willing to invent purely imagined worlds… I dunno, probably also afraid I’d lose an anchor to reality or something
I think also, a lot of the advice I see out there would strongly advise against using virtual spaces, let alone imagined ones
Creativity is visualization, abstraction and innovation… So everything that enters the memory chamber can be manipulated at will, this art is similar to painting, poetry and philosophy, but focusing even more on painting you can see that those artists are not limited, but that innovation is what makes one of these unique, so if you want to use imaginary places that prevents you, but just as those artists use things that exist in reality so do you build yourself, remember that painting is a sum of images, shapes, colors, emotions, etc…, everything is taken from the artist’s reality, from what he observes and this is exalted and altered in different ways.
E.g. a throne of flesh and bloodied bone, on which is seated a being with a naked human body and a raven head (humanoid) with gold ornamentation, everything that approaches is destroyed when this being observes it, this throne is in the center and six columns of golden color surround it, etc.
One of the things I’ve found challenging is indexing the vast amount of programming knowledge. Going to draw some inspiration from this thread and experiment a bit for myself.
If you could do mental math of a conversion to a useful color model, that’d be neat. The math where you derrive colors from other colors would also be useful to learn if such a thing were possible.
