Hey everyone :) I’m Asher. I live in Atlanta, GA, moved here about 12.5 years ago for grad school at Emory, where I completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis in the department of Comparative Literature.
Comparative Literature is an unusual discipline– it used to be defined as the comparison of two “national literatures”, but contemporary departments now define it as the study between domains of difference, performed through the application of philosophy, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. I was able to define one of my foreign languages as C++ and work at the intersection of programming and engineering from applied theory (and working on the theory to produce the engineering). My dissertation question started out as: if we outline the logical requirements for building artificial general intelligence, where are the major barriers? I expected to find distinct, unresolved problems, but instead I found problems that had treatments available in the works I had been studying (perhaps not solutions, but ready to be applied in systematic ways). In the end, I focused my dissertation on the intersection of Turing with the philosophical thought I was exploring, thinking that I was going to be introducing the thought to Turing. I discovered that, in fact, it was Turing’s work that had produced the impetus for the core organizations of the philosophical work! As I came to understand this, the theoretical understanding developed into a concrete architecture— basically a new type of database architecture designed to handle natural language. Since finishing my degree, I’ve been spending days working on a startup based on implementing this architecture. I’m currently in the 98% stage where the database is nearing readiness for practical use. It’s not currently open source, but I’m working to figure out by what means I want to do so. > On Dec 18, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Mathuaerknedam ! <mathuaerkne...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Asher, > > Could you give us a little introduction from "community engagement" > perspective? For example: > > When did you start using Adium? I’ve used Adium every day for ~ the past 20 years, before Adium X. I was heavily involved in a lot of interface design and conceptual flow discussions with Evan during the 2003-2007 period. One area that stands out was the heavy overhaul of the event system at the end of 2005, which we redesigned together during a week in Berlin. I also wrote the original build scripts. > What protocols (in or out of Adium) do you use most? Google (currently Hangouts), IRC @ Freenode #ai, #hackintosh > What's your favorite messagestyle? Smooth Operator > Which xtras do you use? Frodo Adiumy, Asher Coloring, Asher Layout, Contact Bubbles to Fit > Have you written any xtras? Not published. > Are you on the forums? Not currently, but if there are active forums I am happy to become active. > What other open source projects have you contributed to? Mostly I’ve been working on prototyping my own work, which has taken a number of different forms as it has progressed. Most of that is now published on GitHub, here: https://github.com/RidiculousPower <https://github.com/RidiculousPower> A number of these projects were maintained as Ruby Gems for a while. Of particular interest: * https://github.com/RidiculousPower/cascading_configuration <https://github.com/RidiculousPower/cascading_configuration> * https://github.com/RidiculousPower/module-cluster <https://github.com/RidiculousPower/module-cluster> * https://github.com/RidiculousPower/accessor-utilities <https://github.com/RidiculousPower/accessor-utilities> Here’s a Cocoa utility lib I published: https://github.com/RidiculousPower/RPLayout <https://github.com/RidiculousPower/RPLayout> > Do you like pineapple on pizza? No good comes of that question unless you’re ordering pizza! > Do you know Swift? I have not worked in it at all, but I can easily pick it up as needed. I’m deeply versed in C++/C/Obj C/Ruby, familiar with others. > > I think those are all questions I've heard asked of Adium devs over the > years. > > Thanks! > > > Matthew > > > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 6:52 PM Evan Schoenberg <e...@adium.im > <mailto:e...@adium.im>> wrote: > I’d like to introduce to you all my cousin Asher Haig. He is one of Adium’s > longest-term and heaviest users. I’ll never forget redesigning the Events > system with his help while visiting him in Berlin over Spring Break circa > 2004. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence, and is a skilled programmer, > with a primary background in C and C++. > > He uses Adium daily and is interested in helping maintain and improve it. > I’ve added him directly to the GitHub team and to the committers list. > There’s nobody active enough right now to provide useful and timely code > review if we were to follow the “traditional” patch process. I’ve been > working with him to get him acclimated to the code, though that often takes > the form of “Hm, I do remember when we wrote that hack 14 years ago…” or > “Yeah, that was a workaround for a bug in Mac OS X 10.2.” Good times. > > Best, > Evan > > > -- > > Matthew
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