DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab on Nostr: as a kid, I had a floppy disc filled with text files I created where each text file ...

as a kid, I had a floppy disc filled with text files I created where each text file represented a different type of thing and inside the file was a list of things of that type.

I was gonna teach my computer how to understand the world around me the way I understood it.

eventually, kid me realized that lists of types of things would be insufficient. I needed relationships, comparisons, differentiations, assumptions, all sorts of complexity.

I gave up.

the titans of industry are still kids.