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nil, 13 hours ago to random

How about we tackle the Human Intelligence alignment problem first.

nil, 1 day ago to Lisp

Very excited about this book! Conway’s Game of Life is what got me out of blubberism almost three decades ago as I implemented it in php and started looking into more succinct implementations which brought me to #apl, #lisp and so #forth.

crmsnbleyd, 4 days ago to Lisp

lisp.wtf is available to rent. What would be a useful thing to host on it?

#lisp

nil, 5 days ago to random

I believe this makes me owner #2 of the #t3x programming language formal definition. My first inclination is to write a lisp for the tcode machine but given the author I feel this has already happened? Chapter 6 is very cool to see the variants of asm for each instruction for z80 8086 and ARMv6.

nil, 10 days ago to random

kate bush makes everything better.

AverageDog, 18 days ago to programming

This may very well be the most useless book I have ever written, and I don't even know why I did. I guess it is still better than getting drunk in a bar.
Anyway, it defines the #T3X programming language formally in terms of basic functions (zero, successor, identity, mu) and naive set theory. I have no idea why anybody would read such a book. Maybe you can give me some hints? :)
Or, in case you want to prove me wrong: http://t3x.org/t3x/0/formal.html
#programming, #semantics, #math, #futility

nil, 21 days ago to random

Real alphaville “are you gonna drop the bomb or not” vibes tonight. Fitting that I am deep diving into 68000 assembly so I can finally write the sega genesis game of my dreams on actual hardware. Of course via some sort of GOAL type approach mind you.

nil, 23 days ago to Lisp

I used to own a stack of boxes of vintage Byte magazine issues from 78-82 as I wanted physical copies of the #smalltalk and #lisp articles (which at the time were not scanned/available). Anyway I couldn’t help but read almost all of them, mainly for the ads! Also some great #forth articles. Ultimately it was incredibly informative to learn about the hype cycle of tech. So every time I hear about crypto or LLM shit I imagine it (well what ever the aphantasia version of imagining is) in terms of half page glossy over produced vintage byte magazine ads.

nil, 1 month ago to forth

More (moore) forth! #forth #eforth #subleq

nil, 1 month ago to random

Rip General Intellect Unit. #cybernetics #GeneralIntellectUnit

nil, 1 month ago to random

@zep why is the #picotron monospace font not monospace? Maybe it is not meant to be monospaced and I just made that up? If so can we edit/create fonts directly in picotron?

nil, 1 month ago to random

Why did no one tell me that Westone had released Clockwork Aquario?? In the set of my favorite games of all time Wonderboy in MonsterWorld firmly established. This feels like as close we will ever get to a new game from that era.
#westone #sega #wonderboy

nil, 1 month ago to Lisp

Next time someone contends that clojure is not a lisp gently remind them that allowing the comma as white space actually proves direct descent from lisp 1.5. #clojure #lisp #drama #controversy #heresy #synthesis

nil, 1 month ago to random

Straight edge? Turns out it was autism all along.

nil, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Lisp

Ok so I really do think Tesler may have invented the keyword for lisp. Lisp70 was based on exploration from MLisp and MLisp2 - neither of which had colon prefixed symbols. I wonder if it was inspired by the smalltalk selector syntax but in reverse? He was definitely involved with that and even further Alan Kay is thanked in the Lisp70 paper. Anyway I would be glad to be wrong if someone can point to prior art!

#lisp #SyntaxArcheology #AlanKay #LarryTesler

nil, 2 months ago to boardgames

Just found out you can play kriegspiel on macOS/iOS for free! https://r-s-g.org/kriegspiel/index.php

#situationism #BoardGames #debord

nil, 2 months ago to Lisp

Does anyone have a definitive answer as to which lisp was the first to have the colon prefixed symbol notion of a keyword? I can see Tessler doing it here in 1970ish: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/sail/lisp70patmatch_Feb73.pdf

#lisp #SyntaxArcheology

nil, 2 months ago to random

Title: Actors
Author: Gul Agha
Year: 1986

#ActorModel #VeganComputerScience

nil, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Lisp

I need this as a shirt for sure! Maybe even a framed poster. #lisp @AverageDog

nil, 2 months ago to Lisp

Hell yeah! Another Nils M Holm banger - in hardcover! #lisp #grass

nil, 2 months ago to random

How many neighborhoods are there in the world? Real answers or heuristics only please.

nil, 2 months ago to random

I know people think networking was the reason HyperCard lost but I think “right click to view source” is the real reason the web won. Being able to edit source in any text editor is hugely important. And I say this as a lover of HyperCard when I had access to it at school but at home I had a 486 my parents went into debt to get us so html it was. Turned out ok in the end obviously but I still wish HyperCard had won. I guess I am spending a lot of time living in imaginary timelines this weekend.

nil, 2 months ago to random

تحرير 🍉

nil, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

For real. Inherited one of these from my grandfather and the other from eBay (when it was good for books)

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nil, 2 months ago to Lisp

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