whitten

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   by whitten 7y ago

   I assume you are referring to "technical debt", unless you were being ironic and I didn't catch your irony emoji. (Is there an ironic emoji?)
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   by whitten 7y ago

   After reading the article, I wonder if Doqume has plans to share back the information to Wikidata that was derived from Wikipedia that was not present in Wikidata. I know this lessens the power of claiming they know stuff that is not availa
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   by whitten 7y ago

   Could you tell us more about Detroit Beyond Human ?
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   by whitten 7y ago

   Hard to decide. Should the white hatters get enough information to deal with a problem at the risk of informing the black hatters something they did not know? Or do you assume the black hatters already have access to all the information the
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   by whitten 7y ago

   This is great news. I thought Inform 7 had a built-in expert system. Does anyone know for sure ?
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   by whitten 7y ago

   Since Rascal has integrated Context Free Grammars, does this mean it incorporates the Earley Algorithm for parsing ?
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   by whitten 7y ago

   Beta looks like a tool that does term rewriting, extended with a state machine to choose which grammar. From the document: The Beta program first reads in the rules and then performs the transformations to the input data as defined by the
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   by whitten 7y ago

   This is cool. Is the approach used to support generic disassembly like this strong enough to use for generic language definition and thus support a generic decompilation process ?
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   by whitten 7y ago

   What Is it about being a logic programming language that means that backtracking is not a part of it? I see backtracking as an implementation of search, where Prolog takes expressions and finds bindings for those expressions where the expre
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    by whitten 7y ago

    Story of development of Erlang from 1992. I don't know why Erlang does not include backtracking. It seems a required part of Prolog. Can anyone explain the advantage? I read this PDF to see if they answer the question but found no ment
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    by whitten 7y ago

    I agree with others that this comment has increased my understanding greatly. Perhaps since this is a linguistic example, it resonates. Thank you for replying. To add a bit of info, there is a system named Attempto Controlled English which
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    by whitten 7y ago

    I agree. The non intuitive reason stated is that there is a standard that specifies a sign for zero, and numeric IF doesn't distinguish between them, and it depends upon labels which are hard to optimize. Another notable capability is
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    by whitten 8y ago

    It certainly leads to code for a different purpose. In an interpreter you need to store enough information so you can choose the right subroutine to call at runtime. This must also include enough information as inputs to let the subroutine
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    by whitten 8y ago

    My only guess is that they are implicitly ignoring information we use all the time when talking about information in a computer. The number 5 stored in one place in a computer is the same as the number 5 stored elsewhere. In the human brai
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    by whitten 8y ago

    When you have been working with a language for a long time, it is easy to forget what other languages don't have which the language does have. This is especially true for MUMPS. Most languages don't have a built-in data handler
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    by whitten 8y ago

    It is an interesting view, but the accuracy of the model is important to me as well, as I'm interested in NaNoCoMo ie: computer generating novels as discussed at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/nanocomo/
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    by whitten 8y ago

    For those who can explain the difference is this a LISP 1 or a LISP 2 ?
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    by whitten 8y ago

    I am intrigued by the mention of writing AST walkers and a data flow tool for call graphs. Is it possible that you can talk about them on a blog post ? I would like to know why they are useful and how you write them.
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    by whitten 8y ago

    So Markdeck lets you use ascii art via pandoc, as well as generating slides from text with titles, background images and background colors. It can also generate slides with "hand-written sketches" as in the complete slideshow: ht
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    by whitten 8y ago

    Does this "lish" data model map into a spreadsheet with simple values or other spreadsheets as the cell values? I have been looking for a good tool to handle manipulation/editing/presentation for this kind of recursive d
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    by whitten 8y ago

    Weren't XAML and XUL supposed to be user interface markup languages ? Wikipedia thinks so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_...
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    by whitten 8y ago

    I'm sad. Sears brought the Atari micro computers into the Heartland of America and spurred my imagination. They were a bit pricey, but all computers were. I remember almost $300 for 32K of extra memory.
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    by whitten 8y ago

    I read through the issue #111 you referenced. Both comments are from 2016, rather than any from this year. Perhaps you could reply and tell us the significance you see in this issue, and why it hasn't been addressed in at least two ye
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    by whitten 8y ago

    If anyone else has a problem reading this article, it significantly is easier to read with Chrome.
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    by whitten 8y ago

    Apparently, the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) runtime is an API so you can run models locally instead of on another machine. I didn't see any details about the inference engine, so I assume this is a neural net AI application pro
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    by whitten 8y ago

    For those, like me, who might not be familiar with those terms, this StackOverflow question strives to answer it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36851766/histomorphisms-... Oh, and what is a zipper as a data
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    by whitten 8y ago

    from the top of the page: Read-Eval-Print-λove (Read-Eval-Print-Love) is an N-monthly zine of original content and curation about the Lisp family of programming languages and little-languages in general. v004 - Production Rules -- Michael F
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    by whitten 8y ago

    Is there any difference in editing a structured document which is intended to ultimately be text for presentation and reading, versus a structured document which is describing requirements for code or a storyboard for a design? Do these dif
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    by whitten 8y ago

    While I think dyld is probably short for "dynamic load", I initially read it as 'Dylan Language Deamon" when I read the phrase 'shared dyld cache'. I know Apple was heavily involved in the Dylan language severa
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    by whitten 8y ago

    So, since many mediawiki systems use lua, does this mean that you can code in Lisp (or Fennel), transpile to Lua, and then run the code as a module in a media wiki system? What about Common Lisp libraries? would they be transpiled too? Is t