Arto Bendiken

My 1-minute demo at #SEMANTiCS2025 of the ASIMOV personal intelligence layer unlocking and linking the data silos in your life, here showcasing some initial utility for frequent conference attendance

Presenting ASIMOV at #SEMANTiCS2025: a personal intelligence layer linking all the data in your life, built on an open-source platform for trustworthy neurosymbolic AI

Introducing ASIMOV: A Platform for Trustworthy Neurosymbolic AI Today we are beginning the rollout of the first phase of the ASIMOV platform, a state-of-the-art polyglot development platform for trustworthy, neurosymbolic AI. The platform in this first public…

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What's our term for that satisfying feeling of arguing the AI to submission, prevailing on points of nuance that it lacks?

It seems like German should have one. Less Besserwisser and more machine whisperer. Would that be Maschinenflüsterer?

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Divine Provenance To our good fortune, Aristotle did not write, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it," because this quotation, by sociologist Lowell L. Bennion…

The inaugural post on our brand new ASIMOV Protocol blog:

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I hope you all know I don't actually think that's actually think that's Bruce Lee. But hey we can all dream right? Either way I'm sure we can all appreciate ... Bruce Lee Ping Pong (Full Version)

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Through osmosis, my kids seem to have gained the (not unreasonable) prior that grayscale, low-res video entails pre-CGI and pre-GAI authenticity

But no, my darlings, history will falsified and fought over more than anything else. Never forget it.

Watching Bruce Lee stunts with my preschoolers as part of their morning homeschool today, we did a double take on that clip of Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks

I can here only echo that mixture of affection and exasperation for the English language so well captured in Bill Bryson's eminently readable The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way--a book that I look forward to handing to my kids in a few more years:

My penance is teaching them Finnish and Esperanto, both of them gloriously phonetic and regular despite gazing at each other across the chasm of the grammatical complexity continuum.

I feel some chagrin correcting my preschoolers daily now on their beautiful, logical proto-English.

Just this week: broked (broke), catched (caught), eated (ate), seed (saw), sitted (sat), sneaked (snuck), taked (took), teached (taught), winned (won); and many more, already forgotten.

After several rounds around the house, farmer's carry with two heavy kettlebells feels like good prep for that important Finnish summer tradition: akankanto (wife-carrying)

Though my wife does weigh less than the program minimum, so I might need to add a rucksack still.

Really getting that AltaVista feel with Google these days what with even half the search results being ads.

The strangest aspect of being a fast sleeper is daily being the last to bed and the first up, both by margins of several hours. For the kids it creates the illusion and family joke that daddy never sleeps at all.

The Emirates long haul (15h45m) from SF to Dubai is quite the scenic route, what with overpasses of Greenland, Iceland, and Denmark along the way.

Not quite the shortest great-circle distance, though, given current geopolitical circumstances.

Arto Bendiken and Joshua J. Bouw visiting Robert Scoble

We got the friendliest welcome to Silicon Valley from the inimitable, one and only Robert Scoble!

His X Pro dashboard on his living room TV is a sight to behold: the den of a Mr. Universe, a reclusive techno-wizard sifting through the noise to find pure signal.

A 35 lb (~16 kg) Amazon Basics cast iron kettlebell

✈️ My travel hack: get an Amazon Basics cast iron kettlebell delivered upon arrival in a new city. (Greets from San Francisco, btw 👋)

That's a one-time cost of about $1.1/lb ($2.4/kg) for a full-body workout on your own schedule. That's less than a one-time entry to a swank San Francisco gym. 💪

ASIMOV Protocol at the NEAR Town Hall (February 2025) An ASIMOV Protocol sneak peek on the NEAR Town Hall in February 2025: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowled…

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An ASIMOV Protocol sneak peek on the NEAR Town Hall in February 2025: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowledge in... ASIMOV Protocol on the NEAR Town Hall (February 2025)

My ASIMOV Protocol sneak peek on the NEAR Town Hall: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowledge in order to realize the promise of the neurosymbolic synthesis.

(Alternative tagline: Building positronic brains since 2024!)

youtu.be/oJmAkEctnOk

ASIMOV Protocol at the NEAR Town Hall (February 2025) An ASIMOV Protocol sneak peek on the NEAR Town Hall in February 2025: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowled…

https://speakerdeck.com/asimov/near-town-hall-february-2025

An ASIMOV Protocol sneak peek on the NEAR Town Hall in February 2025: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowledge in... ASIMOV Protocol on the NEAR Town Hall (February 2025)

My ASIMOV Protocol sneak peek on the NEAR Town Hall: enriching user-owned AI with high-quality structured, linked, and verified knowledge in order to realize the promise of the neurosymbolic synthesis.

(Alternative tagline: Building positronic brains since 2024!)

https://youtu.be/oJmAkEctnOk

👏 This is now far easier than it has ever been thanks to FastNear's high-performance https://neardata.xyz API.

⭐ https://github.com/dryruby/near.rb

👉 https://github.com/dryruby/near.rb/blob/master/examples/monitor_new_accounts.rb

Monitoring account creation on the NEAR Protocol testnet in real time with a simple 15-line NEAR.rb script:

👏 This is now far easier than it has ever been thanks to FastNear's high-performance https://neardata.xyz API.

👉 https://github.com/dryruby/near.rb/blob/master/examples/monitor_near_transfers.rb

Monitoring $NEAR payments on the NEAR Protocol in real time with a simple 15-line NEAR.rb script:

👉 With NEAR.rb, it is now possible to write a custom indexer in less than 10 lines of elegant Ruby code—the example shown here is tracking all EVM transactions on NEAR Protocol by filtering specifically for actions that interact with the EVM contract:

👉 With NEAR.rb, enumerating transactions or even actions directly in any given block is now trivial—abstracting over the underlying reality of shards and chunks that are complications not needed for most uses of this data:

👉 Block data is fetched from the high-performance neardata.xyz API that caches blocks using Cloudflare's network with more than 330 global edge locations, making it trivial to track the current tip of the chain in a robust and efficient manner:

🏗️ https://github.com/dryruby/near.rb
💎 https://rubygems.org/gems/near
📕 https://rubydoc.info/gems/near