Preprint Abstract Palimpsest or forgetful learning rules for attractor neural networks do not suuer from catastrophic forgetting. Instead they selectively forget older memories in order to store new patterns. Standard palimpsest learning algorithms have a capacity of up to 0:05n, where n is the size of the network. Here a new learning rule is introduced. This rule is local and incremental. It i...

This paper describes the Palimpsest data model, which describes flexible merging and tracking of individual changes to shared hypertext or multimedia documents. Palimpsest is designed to represent and manage the sorts of versioning problems that will inevitably occur in distributed collaborative manipulation of shared data. In fact, in a cooperative editing environment the problems that Palimps...

In this paper, I employ the concept of palimpsest meaning (Bailey, 2007) to illustrate how Pokémon Go shapes and produces relations place. Using ethnographic data from student players at University Guelph, demonstrate augmented reality (AR) gaming constructs a curated layer place that influences players’ knowledge of, relationships to, movement through space. so doing, argue we should not ignor...

Since the 1500s, Mayan language and glyphic systems have been romanticized by Eurocentric interpretations. In recent years, many anthropological works have perpetuated these myths by presenting inaccurate analyses of Maya linguistics. Rather than showing the Maya as an advance and civilized people, these texts promoted a weak, barbarous Maya who could be easily manipulated by European culture, ...

Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilities are unnecessary and impose an unwanted overhead in complexity and ease of management. Furthermore, wide-area services have requirements not met by existing solutions, in particular capacity management and a realisti...