I'm a little younger than you, so I want to ask this:
If it were up to you, alone or with a team you're in charge of, do you think you could come up with a piece of software which would be less ephemeral and more lasting, perhaps being able to work unadministered or requiring minimum administration for a while, and be usable AND useful for years without any major changes?
What would it look like, and what would its pieces be made of?
do you think you could come up with a piece of software which would be less ephemeral and more lasting
Take a look at the sort of old software people write emulators for.
There's an active scene that resurrects 70/80s video games - Space Invaders/Galaga/Defender et al have way way longer useful life than most of the software written in the subsequent ~40 years.
IBM maintain a VAX/VMS emulator, and there are various ports if it (including OpenVMS and an x86 version). This is mostly (I think?) used for "legacy apps" particularly finacuial/governemnt/adacemic/military software written in Cobol, Fortran, or Ada.
Looking at those sorts of software would be interesting in terms of knowing what sort of 40+ year old software people still care about...
I LOVE this challenging thought experiment. (I was on "commenting too fast" restrictions (Shakes fist @Dang)...
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With that said - I love this question!
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The premise, as interpreted:
**"A self-teaching application which can adjust behavior and performance with minimal input"**
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Proposal A: [NMAP/PRISM/ETC for AI/ML systems] ((I'd be sure Palantir has this covered...))
This one will be long winded and off-the-cuff based on some work we did with tracking software in the past (people places, things, things-that-kill-people-places-and-things, etc)
I would like an AI awareness layer whereby an AI/ML system can locate adjacent 'other' systems and either silently learn - or actively map/learn etc...
We have had netmon tools for decades. I'd prefer a single firewall device;
I plug it in at home - and its my VPN/PROXY that ALL my familial devices run through. ALL.
So its just a simple VPN etc - all my mobile devices in the family of devices only route through my home device - which in-turn also keeps a small constellation of other nodes several hops out - such that BGP is sorta accomplished - cant get to primary node, go here instead.
I've designed SDNs on mass-fiber btwn HK, JP, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc...
Its doable (this is when Palo Alto Networks was just coming online with their product line...)
Doing this in a manner which utilized AI/ML/etc to more intelligently setup these systems...
Yes I could lead a team that does that....
Lets think this thing out into the zeitgeist and if its lame, then let it die - if it is not lame - then I will work with anyone who may want to explore it?
Network, storage, memory and compute (GPU is included in compute). Aside from any other mortar you may need which can be available as a service, that is the premise of all that we do with machines.
Honestly, its a straightforward concept - and products exist in the enterprise for just this: MDM (Mobile Device Management) -- you can deploy and manage (and monitor and spy on) any provisioned device through your ITMS...
There should be a product for homes that provides all that you said - with archive, backup, MDM, blogs, calendar, todo, etc...
I pitched this years ago "Facebook in a box for the home"
You were told "nobody will want that" by people who wouldn't want it to exist as it flies in the face of those walled gardens. I know plenty of people that want that now for sure, myself included. People are tired of their data being "owned" by these companies and subsequently having it lost or stolen. Something like this would be like mixing bitdefender box and a NAS with HumHub or some other open source social network software maybe?
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I'm a little younger than you, so I want to ask this:
If it were up to you, alone or with a team you're in charge of, do you think you could come up with a piece of software which would be less ephemeral and more lasting, perhaps being able to work unadministered or requiring minimum administration for a while, and be usable AND useful for years without any major changes?
What would it look like, and what would its pieces be made of?
Take a look at the sort of old software people write emulators for.
There's an active scene that resurrects 70/80s video games - Space Invaders/Galaga/Defender et al have way way longer useful life than most of the software written in the subsequent ~40 years.
IBM maintain a VAX/VMS emulator, and there are various ports if it (including OpenVMS and an x86 version). This is mostly (I think?) used for "legacy apps" particularly finacuial/governemnt/adacemic/military software written in Cobol, Fortran, or Ada.
Looking at those sorts of software would be interesting in terms of knowing what sort of 40+ year old software people still care about...
I LOVE this challenging thought experiment. (I was on "commenting too fast" restrictions (Shakes fist @Dang)...
---
With that said - I love this question!
---
The premise, as interpreted:
**"A self-teaching application which can adjust behavior and performance with minimal input"**
---
Proposal A: [NMAP/PRISM/ETC for AI/ML systems] ((I'd be sure Palantir has this covered...))
This one will be long winded and off-the-cuff based on some work we did with tracking software in the past (people places, things, things-that-kill-people-places-and-things, etc)
I would like an AI awareness layer whereby an AI/ML system can locate adjacent 'other' systems and either silently learn - or actively map/learn etc...
We have had netmon tools for decades. I'd prefer a single firewall device;
I plug it in at home - and its my VPN/PROXY that ALL my familial devices run through. ALL.
So its just a simple VPN etc - all my mobile devices in the family of devices only route through my home device - which in-turn also keeps a small constellation of other nodes several hops out - such that BGP is sorta accomplished - cant get to primary node, go here instead.
I've designed SDNs on mass-fiber btwn HK, JP, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc...
Its doable (this is when Palo Alto Networks was just coming online with their product line...)
Doing this in a manner which utilized AI/ML/etc to more intelligently setup these systems...
Yes I could lead a team that does that....
Lets think this thing out into the zeitgeist and if its lame, then let it die - if it is not lame - then I will work with anyone who may want to explore it?
What would the hardware for this look like. Is there anything more to it than two Ethernet ports, storage, RAM, and CPU?
Anything beyond putting together existing components?
Thank you for responding, I am intrigued by your ideas.
Heh, its funny that you boiled it down as such:
Network, storage, memory and compute (GPU is included in compute). Aside from any other mortar you may need which can be available as a service, that is the premise of all that we do with machines.
Honestly, its a straightforward concept - and products exist in the enterprise for just this: MDM (Mobile Device Management) -- you can deploy and manage (and monitor and spy on) any provisioned device through your ITMS...
There should be a product for homes that provides all that you said - with archive, backup, MDM, blogs, calendar, todo, etc...
I pitched this years ago "Facebook in a box for the home"
I pitched it to YC, to others from Goog and FB...
I was told "nobody will want that"
You were told "nobody will want that" by people who wouldn't want it to exist as it flies in the face of those walled gardens. I know plenty of people that want that now for sure, myself included. People are tired of their data being "owned" by these companies and subsequently having it lost or stolen. Something like this would be like mixing bitdefender box and a NAS with HumHub or some other open source social network software maybe?
I've tried to find some kind of contact for you, but came up empty...