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by infinite8s 3y ago
> In sheer volume, there are probably more people doing XeroxPARC level crazy stuff now than then. I'm not sure about that. From the Computer History Museum's 50th anniversary event of the Alto two days ago, each Alto cost abou
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by infinite8s 3y ago
This exactly. Sadly the idea went through a low pass filter and just became a way to pass around dumb data objects.
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Somehow this model works to build complex organisms in embryology...
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by infinite8s 3y ago
DynamicLand (Bret Victor's 50yr research project) uses a tuplespace model, except instead of basic pattern matching on content and type it uses a datalog-like query language (the wishes and claims of RealTalk).
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Numpy is mostly just a thin metadata wrapper around memory buffers. If pola.rs stores data in that format it should be able to give you zero-copy numpy objects pointing to the underlying pola.rs data.
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by infinite8s 4y ago
We don't need to eliminate it, just go back to the original 14 yr term, with a renewal only allowed to the original creator (as an inalienable right so it can't be sold away).
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Nice texodus! What's new since you spun it out into prospective? I worked on perspective a long time ago when it was still proprietary ;)
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by infinite8s 4y ago
If the label doesn't say "USDA Organic", then the labeling is unregulated and can say whatever it wants.
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by infinite8s 4y ago
It's too bad Apple never bought Gerry Popek's LOCUS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS ), which could do process migration between heterogeneous hardware!
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by infinite8s 4y ago
And Baltimore still has a low cost of living for an East Coast city but isn't so isolated, as say national labs like LANL and Sandia.
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Does managarm run on raspberry pis?
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by infinite8s 4y ago
> Beware, though it's fully functional, crosstalk is still limited by constraints of the original Smalltalk 80 system - e.g. in terms of color (black and white only), possible screen resolution (2^20 pixels, the system crashes if yo
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by infinite8s 4y ago
It uses the circle library ( https://github.com/rsta2/circle ) to provide a minimal runtime (mainly to interface with the hardware).
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by infinite8s 4y ago
One slight difference from current microcoded CPUs is that the end user could implement their own microcode. So each of the systems you mention above implemented their VMs directly in microcode, and as a result tye bytecode became the instr
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Are there any that use TensorflowLite?
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by infinite8s 4y ago
> On a computer the size and weight of a paper notebook, with all day battery life, a display whose color quality/resolution/refresh rate were utterly unimaginable 33 years ago Those were completely imaginable 30 years ago to a
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by infinite8s 4y ago
This looks really great! Do you have any blog posts talking about the hardware design of the cards?
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Inkbase: Programmable Ink(inkandswitch.com)
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by infinite8s 4y ago
I once made a rules engine for Magic the Gathering in python. As a design problem it is quite interesting since the key thing about MtG is that the pieces of the game can override the game rules. After reading about CLOS a few years later i
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by infinite8s 4y ago
The nature of most of human existence was manual labor, which obviates the need for separate exercise.
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Alan Kay has often said that he gets his best ideas in the shower (I think the idea for efficiently implementing overlapping windows was one of them). I can't remember where I read it but he asked for a shower in his office at PARC but
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by infinite8s 4y ago
When will society stop wasting time with chemical rocketry and start work on the only scalable approach to space travel with nuclear propulsion. We've wasted over 60 years of development pursuing a path that is physically impossible to
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Can you say more on that error?
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Does authorized to work in the US mean US based? Ie US remote only?
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by infinite8s 4y ago
My dream is combining a simple self-hosted programming system like smalltalk-78 with the kind of experimental notetaking systems demoed here and in other inkandswitch work (crosscut and untangle) on an e-paper based tablet (like the PineNot
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by infinite8s 4y ago
You are correct that that is not the scientific definition of sugar, which is generally any 5 or 6 carbon ring molecule. However when most people talk about sugar they are referring to table sugar, which is a molecule of glucose (a six carb
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by infinite8s 4y ago
> Such trans fats cannot be consumed by our bodies: their chains are too short to be correctly processed and are too big to pass the mitochondrial membranes. Oxidizing lipids doesn't introduce chain rotation about their double bonds
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Another interesting aspect of Canadian mortgages (as opposed to US ones) is that you can't just walk away if the mortgage is underwater (which is what a pot of people in the US did after the GFC). The bank can come after you for the di
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by infinite8s 4y ago
Canada is similar - usually you can prepay up to 15%/year, but any more than that and you need to pay a penalty (which seems to be calculated based on the interest they would lose). Also the yearly prepay amount is use it or lose it.
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by infinite8s 4y ago
On a meta note, the ability to model/create these types of system dynamics on a computer is what I believe Alan Kay meant when talking about computational literacy. These types of systems don't lend themselves well to closed form

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