I dropped out of college the first time through — around 1981 or so — because I became fascinated with something I was studying in library stacks, and I stopped going to classes because they were drivel. I'd have made it to graduate school by that time if I'd been funded through my undergraduate program. But I had to skip quarters to work and pay my bills. I reached a takeoff point before my undergrad classes were done.
    Anyway, from an external point of view, it looked like I had crashed and burned because I blew off my classes. I was studying how knowledge was structured, and I was trying to imagine a new way to encode knowledge in language and reasoning. In other words, I sounded really crazy to folks who didn't spend enough time asking me questions to realize how brilliant I was. (And then they wondered why the system had not managed to keep me on track fitting into the way things are done.)
    However, my goal was impossible, so I was chasing a chimera. My object was just as dumb as the strong artificial intelligence goal of folks in the 80's, except I was going to revolutionize the way people thought, insteading of teaching machines to think. I was trying to create a new operating system for the mind, based on different (more effective and fluid) ways of expressing ideas. In a sense, you can say I was trying to make an artificial natural language (except that would be concrete syntax and grammar to the denotational semantics actually of interest to me).

That's actually very cool.  I'd like to know more.

click to summon

http://www.briarpig.com/about.html

Aaron, I hope you are kidding...

there seem to be a lot of brilliant people on this forum, these days.

LOL

So is that your site?

fday, why would I be kidding?  I find the encoding of knowledge an interesting subject.

Remember the last dude this crazy who was summoned?

http://www.briarpig.com/log.html

Well, he has all the right blogs.  Lambda the Ultimate (programming language design site), Paul Graham, Aaron Schwartz.

Seems to be a legitimate programmer.  Couldn't find any code or project  though.

Who is the crazy that came to crazyontap.  I am interested, now.

And schemers. hmm

http://www.schemers.org/

ok, sorry Aaron, lets get interested

Colm, I don't think this one is actually crazy.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/

http://www.briarpig.com/wyv.html

To Wild Ideas.  If your goal is to build an operating system with new concepts.  I don't if I would go about changing Plan 9 as it seems to be into a pretty large system (300MB download?)

Here seem to be some popular projects for good starting points; I love the blurb at the top.

"This list was off-line from 09-04-2004 until 06-17-2006 and during that time 112 of 213 operating system projects disappeared from the internet leaving only 101(submitted"

http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Projects

Apparently operating system development is still hard.

Huh.  I didn't realize the OP was a copy/paste from a page there.  Makes me doubt that the poster is the author.

ok, is there anything credible bot? I'm really upset when these kind of guys kill themselves next day....