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10일 전discuss

What the Viking Poets Knew (and AI Researchers Need To) has some discussion of J-space in Chapter 3. The things the book mentions are being discovered and implemented in real time. Just 6 more layers to go. https://moebiusv.github.io/papers/papers/viking-poets/

2개월 전discuss

Fantastic! Is there something like this also for the scratch and hiss of old LP vinyl records? And the various types of squeals, crackles and fuzz of old ham radio setups? Never found anything that can really simulate those well.

3개월 전discuss

And claude is back up.

5개월 전discuss

Claude has been doing a pretty good job at writing newlisp code, reasonably idiomatic too. newlisp is a niche language.

9개월 전discuss

I like how the McCarthy's paper maps the fundamental operations to machine instructions and memory model. It's like something you can actually implement.

That page didn't have a formula, in either cartesian or polar coordinates, for the shape of the object. Lots of formulas, but I didn't see anything I could use to create a 3d mesh and print one of these things out on my printer.

4년 전discuss

Gematria number system is a comparatively modern invention. Researching the old weights, measures, and coins of Israel show good evidence that the Egyptian number system was used, which is a somewhat decimal numbering system. Would be very cool if this language used the ancient Egyptian number system instead of this new-fangled gematria stuff. Then the numbers would be visually very distinct as well.

6년 전discuss

Have you looked at newlisp? It has pretty seamless interop with C pointers.

6년 전discuss

Short answer, to save you reading the article: VxWorks. But there may be more interesting info on pages 2 or 3 of the article. I am curious how VxWorks manages the update procedure. How does it do what it does. How is remote debugging in space using VxWorks; is it anything like the Lisp stuff that JPL used to do?

6년 전discuss

Glad to hear he said that. He is right.

6년 전discuss

Amazon generally has a "pre-order" option. If there was a pre-order option, I also would order your book. By the time your book is in print, I will have forgotten about it. Fascinating topic; nice to see good coverage. I always felt that callbacks and exception handling left a little something to be desired. It looks like you've addressed that.

When your book is in print and available for sale I hope you post again here as a reminder.

7년 전discuss

A fexpr (funny expression) is a runtime macro. It is a funcall where the arguments are evaluated at runtime not compile time. picolisp, newlisp, and I think lisp 1.5 had fexprs.

7년 전discuss

Where is this 1k/acre land in Canada? Is it in a place where you can do these following things? a) build a house b) buy it an acre at a time c) grow a reasonable crop d) be within reasonable distance to a city and the markets thereof

In Canada particularly, climate is an issue for growing crops. Wheat takes 100 days to mature. The growing season in the prairies is 110 days. If the climate drops 1 degree Celcius you lose 10 days off your growing season. If your growing season is delayed by cold or flooding, you don't get a crop that year. In the prairies it takes about 10 acres to sustain 1 cow year round. Throughout Canada there are all kinds of restrictions about how many houses and people you can have on your land. The concept of "starter house" and "starter farm" doesn't exist anymore. There is the nobility, and there are the serfs. We just don't call them that.

7년 전discuss

I define "winter" as the time honeybees don't fly. Summer bees don't fly below 13 Celsius, and winter bees don't fly below 8 Celcius. Winter bees are the first ones out of the hive in spring, raising up the summer bees for the big harvest.

7년 전discuss

Thank you Stanley. Been wanting this for a long time.

7년 전discuss

I notice recently that the hipsters over on Metafilter are trying to smear bread bakers as "brogrammers" and "neckbeards". What is wrong with them.

And you are right about the rising time. I do an 8 hour rise. Doctor Carrie Reams said that the rising time breaks down the phytates which in turn releases the calcium into a form that the body can digest. 2 hour rise doesn't do that.

8년 전discuss

page 6 of the PDF, a continuation is essentially the return address of a subroutine call. But then there are scoping rules that interact with that simplicity.

8년 전discuss

I've read the first few pages. Looks like an interesting paper and I'll read it further. Only flaw is that it doesn't cover Steve Russell being the first to discover/invent continuations. Steve Russell was the first implementor of LISP, and gave it its final syntax after McCarthy did his design work on it.

8년 전discuss

Yep. And back in the 1970's Chuck Moore wrote a book describing the implementation and design of FORTH, and it is pretty close to LISP. And I asked Chuck Moore directly, in person, if there was a connection to LISP, and he said "yes".

8년 전discuss

Thank you, I'll take a look. I thought they were cooked in oil, how would I find out if they were air or oil fried?