Useful links to understand Tau

The following (and growing) list of URLs were created by Martijn Bolt. These resources are suggested in order to have a better understanding of Tau.


Official blog


http://www.idni.org/blog/consensus-and-options 

http://www.idni.org/blog/the-new-tau

http://www.idni.org/blog/agoras-to-tml

http://www.idni.org/blog/art-of-self-ref

http://www.idni.org/blog/tau-and-the-crisis-of-truth


General


https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04120.pdf (2015 Tau Chain paper by Ohad Asor)

https://steemit.com/blockchain/@kevinwong/what-is-tauchain-and-why-it-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-inventions-of-all-time-part-1

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@rok-sivante/tauchain-101-essential-reading-on-one-of-the-most-revolutionary-blockchain-project-under-the-radar

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-is-not-easy-to-understand-but-here-are-some-concepts-to-know-to-track-ohad-s-progress

https://steemit.com/tau-chain/@flis/the-vision-of-tau-chain-a-blockchain-based-self-amending-program-designed-to-scale-human-collaboration-and-knowledge-building

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/can-we-use-tauchain-eos-tezos-ethereum-to-bring-about-a-new-age-of-enlightenment

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@rok-sivante/tauchain-strap-in

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@rok-sivante/simplifying-tauchain-what-you-need-to-know-about-one-of-the-most-fascinating-significant-projects-on-the-block-chain

https://medium.com/@RokSivante/simplifying-tauchain-what-you-need-to-know-about-one-of-the-most-fascinating-significant-projects-60b1d99bc88

https://github.com/naturalog/Bitagoras

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@flis/tau-is-a-discussion-about-tau

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@trafalgar/what-is-tau-my-only-other-crypto-investment

https://steemit.com/eos/@rok-sivante/eos-vs-tezos-vs-tauchain-the-dummies-simplification-of-possibly-the-biggest-blockchain-launches-of-2017


Governance


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistakeholder_governance_model

https://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/sumview.cfm


Information management


http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/8696/galloway-ch4.pdf

https://necsi.edu/complexity-rising-from-human-beings-to-human-civilization-a-complexity-profile


Zennet


http://zennet.sc/about (this and docs from bitcointalk explains knowledge market in new tauchain)

http://zennet.sc/zennetpricing.pdf


TML


https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dana-edwards/the-first-instance-of-tau-metalanguage-tml-has-appeared-on-github

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tau-the-programming-language-and-context-free-grammar

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/using-controlled-english-as-a-knowledge-representation-language


Agoras


https://steemit.com/agoras/@flis/the-future-split-of-agoras-tokens


Internet of languages


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-the-internet-of-languages-and-precise-communication-ambiguity-minimized


Why the logic was chosen


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-advanced-concepts


Partial fixed point


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tau-meta-language-and-the-notion-of-fixed-point

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-tml-partial-fixed-point-logic-and-it-s-unique-benefits


Linear independent hashing algorithm


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tml-development-introduction-of-a-linear-independent-hashing-algorithm


Turing


https://steemit.com/computation/@dana-edwards/real-computers-vs-turing-machines


Binary decision diagrams


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/programming-useful-data-structures-binary-decision-diagrams

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-update-significant-code-changes-in-github-and-discussion-of-progress


Subsumption optimization vs magic sets


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-r-and-d-analysis-and-discussion-subsumptive-tabling-beats-magic-sets


Context free grammar / parsing


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/a-great-video-on-parsing-for-all-studying-tauchain

https://steemit.com/programming/@dana-edwards/what-are-context-free-grammars-cgfs


Compilers/partial evaluation


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/for-all-who-are-researching-tauchain-tml-to-understand-how-it-works-a-nice-video


Futamura projection


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-and-the-mysterious-futamura-projections


TML with negation and optimization


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/understanding-tml-prolog-datalog-tau

https://www.reddit.com/r/tauchain/comments/ayydl1/initial_benchmarks_tml_beats_xsb_and_souffle/


Forward chaining


https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dana-edwards/should-agoras-token-become-an-erc20-token-until-the-release-of-the-alpha


Self defining/self amending blockchain


https://steemit.com/life/@dana-edwards/self-replication-dna-and-tauchain

https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dana-edwards/tauchain-and-tezos-why-adaptability-is-the-key-to-surving-in-a-fast-changing-environment


Social/metrics/consensus/morality/voting/regret/collaboration


https://thecreativecrypto.com/the-first-million-person-conversation-interview-ohad-asor-of-tau-chain/ (interview Ohad, basics and large scale conversations usecase) (first half done, )@martijnbolt)

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@rok-sivante/the-first-million-person-conversation-an-essential-interview-with-tauchain-developer-ohad-asor

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@ponpase/tau-chain-and-agoras-the-only-dynamic-decentralized-social-network

https://steemit.com/technology/@dana-edwards/thinking-outside-the-brain-why-we-need-to-build-a-decentralized-exocortex-part-2

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/the-wide-world-of-scores-and-tau

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-the-social-dispersed-computer-introduced-as-a-social-network

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/truth-vs-consensus-which-is-more-important

https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dana-edwards/consensus-morality-and-tauchain-or-consensus-gentium

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/how-tauchain-can-empower-africa-from-the-start

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@trafalgar/the-power-of-tau-scaling-the-creation-of-knowledge

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/how-can-we-minimize-regret-can-tauchain-help-us

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/ohad-asor-the-lead-developer-and-founder-of-tauchain-releases-first-new-blog-post-in-over-a-year

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/artificial-morality-moral-agents-and-tauchain

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@rok-sivante/why-tauchain-connecting-the-dots-from-personal-vision-to-collective-innovation-part-one

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@rok-sivante/why-tauchain-connecting-the-dots-from-personal-vision-to-collective-innovation-part-two

https://medium.com/@guybeauchesne/today-is-election-day-32a98cc9dfc6


Benchmarks


https://www.reddit.com/r/tauchain/comments/ayydl1/initial_benchmarks_tml_beats_xsb_and_souffle/


Business/use-cases


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/how-to-make-tau-agoras-good-for-business

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/let-s-use-tauchain-to-save-our-own-lives-and-the-lives-of-others-the-life-saving-potential-of-tauchain

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYNNbSLTT4uCq3tNTzhc4a_mICoEI2aT8eYVrFwP8oA/edit

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/why-tauchain-needs-to-exist-collaborative-healthcare-and-decentralized-gene-therapy-research

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/what-tauchain-can-do-for-us-collaborative-serious-alternate-reality-games

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/what-tauchain-can-do-for-us-finding-the-world-s-biggest-problems

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/what-tauchain-can-do-for-us-effective-altruism-tauchain

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/monitoring-and-adapting-to-the-winds-of-change

https://steemit.com/tau-chain/@flis/how-tau-chain-can-be-implemented-in-practice

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@karov/tutor-ex-machina

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tau-chain-a-decentralized-app-store-with-greater-flexibility-than-ethereum


Privacy


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-and-the-privacy-question-benefits-of-secret-contracts-and-private-knowledge

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/how-to-prevent-tauchain-from-becoming-skynet


Smart constitution


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-may-allow-for-the-development-of-the-first-smart-constitution


Self religion


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/will-tauchain-allow-for-augmented-self-religions


Marketing


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-passion-addressing-the-need-for-a-marketing-strategy

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@capitanart/improving-tauchain-and-agoras-branding


People/team


https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@kevinwong/is-tauchain-agoras-in-good-hands


Tauchain videos


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGLWW_OU8x4(Tau Chain Monthly Update Video - November)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEAIQtoxxc (Tau Chain Monthly Update Video - October)

https://youtu.be/jpLhuKLjkS4 (Tau Chain Monthly Update Video - September)

https://youtu.be/W86dPdQ5jOk (Tau Chain Monthly Update Video - August)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3_rDdy-iLo (Tau Chain Monthly Update Video - July)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ATiqj9D8Q (Tau Chain Monthly Update Video - June)

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/interview-about-tauchain-and-agoras-with-ohad-asor-2016

https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/new-coininterview-with-ohad-asor-on-tauchain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFmaX-oumNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utggm7cuGbo

https://youtu.be/1SXfYgQxsOA

https://youtu.be/3ORpi2MMJrA

https://youtu.be/TKhzo_60f6Y

https://youtu.be/Zfx8xqP0XGI

https://youtu.be/lxrofNHiq9Y

https://youtu.be/6G8mTCtv8d8

https://youtu.be/MTARBWPRmxk


Unsorted


https://steemit.com/tauchain/@dana-edwards/tauchain-the-automated-webslueth-the-sherlock-holmes-bot-concept-for-discussion

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYNNbSLTT4uCq3tNTzhc4a_mICoEI2aT8eYVrFwP8oA/edit (previous whitepaper attempt by Dana, still partially relevant)

http://zennet.sc/about/index.html (original decentralised supercomputer idea)

http://www.idni.org/blog/generalized-blockchain


Meta/other


https://steemit.com/writing/@dana-edwards/how-to-write-a-good-thesis-paper

https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/


Related projects


https://www.legalrobot.com/ Centralised platform that helps to transform legal documents into human readable form

http://www.estrellaproject.org/ Open projec focused on data formalisation in area of legal afairs

https://www.focafet.org/ 1language initiative focused on transaction standardisation

https://www.northchain.tech/en/how-ole-works/ OLE, project of prof. Herman Balsters, executable and 100% error-free blockchain code

https://www.cyc.com/ Enterprise company that develops solutions in area of artificial inteligence using ontology language

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Re:Useful links to understand Tau @pamplemousse 2020-01-14

Thanks for the links, they're useful.


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