Re: Tau-Chain and Agoras Official Thread: Generalized P2P Network
Great to see everything is quiet again around here 
If Tau is ready - someday, when it is ready - I presume the work only begins. As a community. What is a smart roadmap to:
1) Get educated in the right fields to be able to use/program Tau? What should neccesarily be learned already?
2) How to get some experience, before Tau's ready, that is useful? What language? Or knowledge? Or skills?
Basically: What's is relevant to have done to be prepared once this network is up and running and Tau needs some serious usecases and testing?
As I mentioned here. I am still wondering what needs to be done once Tau is up and running. To have tau make use of semantics we probably need a lot of useable contextual data that allows tau to interpret transactions and (business)logic in a meaningful, automated manner. Is there a structure, ontology, nomenclature or some sort of thesaurus we could build already, as a community, to come prepared?If Tau is ready - someday, when it is ready - I presume the work only begins. As a community. What is a smart roadmap to:
1) Get educated in the right fields to be able to use/program Tau? What should neccesarily be learned already?
2) How to get some experience, before Tau's ready, that is useful? What language? Or knowledge? Or skills?
Basically: What's is relevant to have done to be prepared once this network is up and running and Tau needs some serious usecases and testing?
good and important question, and could be very relevant for the old tau, but irrelevant for the new tau.
the new tau features what i refer to as "the internet of languages", a platform to define formal languages (by formally defining their syntax and semantics) with tools allowing semantics-preserving translation between defined languages, and more.
the infrastructure of the new tau, is a mechanism to define and connect languages.
so (almost?) any ontology or framework will be programmable on tau, with or without connecting it to more languages.
First of all: Keep up the good work. I admire what you are doing and look forward to a future with tau.
Great that you were able to take the time to answer my question. I did not know about "the internet of languages". Question remains: what can I do, as an engineer that is full time dedicated to the blockchain industry, to be well prepared before Tau launches? What do I need once tau is real? What standardization is required or what language can i learn to be able to use tau? Please point me (us) to useful resources we need to know about once we're there.
on tau, advanced users define languages, and normal users use (speak) those languages.
to define languages one needs to know to define a context free grammar (the syntax part) and then to write logical formulas that express which relations are implied from derivation trees (the semantics part).
any knowledge about how compilers are built can be useful.
it is all about formal languages. the platform is not intended to support natural languages