#khipus — Public Fediverse posts

Un recurso para aprender más de los #Khipus

https://www.khipufieldguide.com/guidebook/Introduction.html

Of course anthropologists wouldn't know, and they don't have to know, it's not their métier... but twist that 90 degrees and it's a directed acyclic graph.

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #khipus

By the way, Khipus are fascinating. If you're so inclined, these New Scientist articles are excellent. Not sure much progress has been done since then, but I will dig deeper.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931972-600-we-thought-the-incas-couldnt-write-these-knots-change-everything/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725135-000-inca-bean-counters-used-string-theory/

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #khipus

Big idea: a Harlequin or RC2014-based Khipu-weaving symbolic persistence device.

Wouldn't it be nice if such theoretical device were possible? And it would reunite electronic and electro-mechanical computers with some of their tangential ancestry of the Jacquard loom in some ways.

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #khipu #khipus

In her FirstView piece, Karen Thompson introduces an object-literature framework that connects #objects to the #literature that references them. Applying her framework to #khipus, she demonstrates how it can aid researchers & facilitate the production of new knowledge.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/article/connecting-objects-and-literature-a-case-study-with-khipus-the-khipubiblio-crossreference/2736F37CFEC0FD9A041B6B92B8D5BEA5