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Compiling law into generative property based tests for gov service(digitalpolicy.substack.com)
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by gordonguthrie 3y ago
Rules as Code is an emerging field with law is annotated with a structured and compliable representation. The target has hithertoo been calculation libraries for social security/tax. This paper looks at compiling to generative property
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
I should also point out that there are half a dozen different Esperanto speakers commenting in Espera to on this thread
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
Esperantujo is Esperanto events
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
From a practical perspective - the nearest Uni was St Petersburg - if you had to guess how many comparative grammers of say Russian/Ndebele Russian/Cherokee Russian/Urdu were available in late 19th C Biyalostok? I would go fo
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
Except a couple of million speak it - to a degree - and it has been going organically for over a century and shows no sign of dying
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
For an amateur, living at the fringes of both Europe and the Russian empire, I think the boy Zamenhof done good for the 19th century
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
'designed without a global audience in mind' - it was exactly designed with a global audience in mind - but I think Zemnhof didn't have the exposure to the width of linguistic research he would have now
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
My mum used to say to me and my brothers "what's your name Pa'erson with 2 tees" whenever we said bu'er or wa'er - I can assure you that the glottal stop is widely used in dialects on the English continuum in S
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
And the case system differentiates between indirect objects of motion and position (like Polish) and doesn't have a genitive (which German does) And also English has like 12-16 vowel sounds and Esperanto (like the Slavics) has half tha
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
Except that Zamenhof spoke Slavic languages as a native - and not German nor English - and specifically chose Romance languages to relexify - there is no discernable German or English influence on the language
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
I just turned on the sofa and asked my Orla if she thought Alexa in Esperanto would be a good idea and to my surprise she said yes ;-)
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
Except that there is a Slavic continuum. The spoken language of the border is Polish if written in the (catholic) Latin-derived script and (orthodox) Belorussian if written in Cyrillic or a (muslim) Polish Tartar if written in the Arabic sc
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
Not often Esperantists get accused of living in the future tho ;-)
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by gordonguthrie 7y ago
It clearly is a Western Slavonic language relexified into Romance - the orthography has the characteristic Slavic 1 symbol/1 sound and is distinctly Hussite (ie accents on a short Latin). The core case system has 4 cases (down from the
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
A 10 word sentence has 10! possible word orders of which only 1 is correct - that is grammer
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
Historically we were taught Latin grammer disguised as English grammer - so 'tenses' when English only has two tenses (past and present) and 6 or more moods (shall, could, will, might etc, etc) Most English 'grammer' dis
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
Compared to working from a book it is ace - you get listening, speaking, reading and writing and it gets you where you want to be I did the first three levels of Ukranian and when I went to Lvyv I picked out a couple of hundred words in sho
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
Well I'm an Erlang enthusiast not an APL one, my APL experience is reading a manual for 4 hours on a plane and 4 hours writing APL There are a squad of specific set related problems in Riak that the Basho engineers skirted round or wer
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
Riak the database so indestructable that is survives its parent companies demise is going into code freeze for its first post-bankruptcy release even as we speak
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
I am writing another post which will describe better the niche I think it should fill - an auxiliary language used to write library modules which would be called from applications written in Elixir or Erlang. The functionality that would be
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
I only tweeted it at my Erlang chums is why, didn't expect anyone else to care
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by gordonguthrie 8y ago
But none of the examples I cite need 'high performance' (well CRDTs do) an expressive language for sets would remove accidental complexity and make more complex things simpler and less buggy
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by gordonguthrie 9y ago
https://vimeo.com/42266454
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by gordonguthrie 9y ago
Minor politician, ya cheeky git ;-)
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by gordonguthrie 9y ago
https://www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/
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by gordonguthrie 10y ago
All language has rules - there is no language 'without formal rules'
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by gordonguthrie 10y ago
[takes a bow]
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by gordonguthrie 12y ago
The Christmas Tree worm - only affected IBM 360 mainframes. We got hit by that - must have been '86? It was an accident as well - it picked up your mailbox contacts and forwarded it itself, but it still had a debug flag set so you got
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by gordonguthrie 12y ago
Techmeetup http://techmeetup.co.uk/ already covers all of Scotland and has goodish contacts with UCL and Seedcamp and stuff...

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