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by lebuffon 3y ago
Off topic but interesting: Over in the TI-99 section of atariage.com the boys have ported GCC to a machine first designed in 1978. :-) It's taken a while to get all the kinks out. First attempts were made in 2010. Great progress has be
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Complete AI layman here but it seems to me that the human mind's architecture has an overarching "executive" module that is involved in managing the numerous "expert" systems that do other stuff for us. (split brain
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Had this discussion on Discord as well. Like most things Forth it depends how you use it. If we consider the classic indirect threaded systems, then every field in a definition is an address called an execution token (XT). In most systems
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Obligatory "FORTH has had this for ages". :-)
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Point of order that I know a Kiwi will understand. Yukon Territory is not in Alaska. It's next door... in Canada. ;-)
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by lebuffon 3y ago
You are correct, but in Forth for example, the colon is a word in the dictionary of words and so is semi-colon. They just happen to parse the input stream rather than taking arguments off the stack. Everything in Forth is called a "wor
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Very neat. You have tried to make a very orthogonal language from what I can see. One of the critiques of Forth is that it is postfix at runtime but typically prefix for compiling stuff. Your use of an unassigned text label being the defaul
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by lebuffon 3y ago
"Foyer" is the classic example.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
But some American dialects (midwest?) have dropped the use of "the" with a long 'e' before words beginning with a vowel.(ie: thee apple) It sounds bizarre to me to use the short 'e'.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
But the butter chicken is to die for!
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by lebuffon 3y ago
I have no formal knowledge in the domain to go much deeper but I can understand the problem you stated about defining the terms properly. I suppose this spinning around on word definitions is similar to my "awareness of awareness&quot
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by lebuffon 3y ago
In my layman's mind consciousness, at it's lowest level, is awareness, as mentioned in the article. I think what humans have achieved is the next level which is "awareness" of our awareness. The ability to self-reflect.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Think of gas automobiles in 1924. (Ford Model A) That's about where we are again in this century with EVs. Patience...
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Amazing that this is one person's work.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
API might go down the road travelled by music in the last 25 years or so. Music used to be a copyright on a melody. Arrangers/producers had nothing. Recorded music now has expanded to have "production rights". This a copyrig
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Interesting. Is this a trend away from holding knowledge in the local wetware? Things that are much less common over my (long) lifetime: -memorization of classic poetry and lines from literature -memorization of tables for simple math oper
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by lebuffon 3y ago
This is related to something I have often wondered about modern user interface that try so hard to simplify things for the end user. Contrast that to musical instruments where the "user interfaces" can be complicated, requiring ye
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by lebuffon 3y ago
In the 60s and 70s it was impossible to generate really large amounts of power with the bipolar transistors that were available. Large transmitters for example were still using Vacuum tubes into the 1990s.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
We should take a moment to acknowledge the Power MOSFet in this story. For a guy who paid money for his first germanium transistor generating grid scale power with transistors is TOTALLY amazing.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
No but I forgot about that one. It's a good one too. Thank you. The one I remember was about a "technician" in this world where nobody remembers the underpinnings of technology. There is a big competition to solve a known pr
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by lebuffon 3y ago
It means you can transmit Morse code by blinking a light on and off in the correct manner.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
" ...and tits doesn't even sound like a swear word. It sounds like something you should eat. Try new cheese-tits! Bet you can't eat just one" R.I.P. George
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by lebuffon 3y ago
This situation was predicted in a sci-fi short-story that I read a very long time ago. Unfortunately I cannot remember the title nor the author. It makes me wonder if we are a hitting a pyramid depth in tech that exceeds a practical limit f
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by lebuffon 3y ago
At least one economist believes we have already left the realm of capitalism and are in the age of techno-feudalism. ie: We all work for Zuckerberg and the gang, giving them free labour/info which they resell. Interesting take on the s
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Everyone knows that CPU stands for "C" processing Unit... :-)
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by lebuffon 3y ago
I would say Forth is lower level than C. The mental model is a two stack machine plus memory, rather than a PDP-11. And it is very reasonable if you are under 50 years of age, that you haven't heard of it.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
There have been recent discussions that we were doing that kind of geo-engineering accidently, in the Atlantic shipping lanes, for many years, when ships burned high sulphur fuel oil. The sulphur dioxide in the exhaust was shielding the oc
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Ditto for Forth.
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by lebuffon 3y ago
I just heard about a jump in atmospheric methane that is not understood. The oil/gas industry has made some progress to curtail methane emissions so we don't think it is that gang. I wonder about millions of tons of frozen ancient
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by lebuffon 3y ago
Alternative explanation (call me crazy) :-) A US comedian once commented that when he went to Europe 20 years ago, he noticed that people only ate three meals a day. What a concept!

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