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Re:Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor by will_byrd on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:11PM (#12195041)
One more high-level comment. I'm thinking of starting a series of Google Hangouts to explain how Barliman works, and more importantly, to collaborate on making the underlying technology better and explore alternative interfaces.

This would build upon 40 hours of hangouts I did on miniKanren and relational interpreters in 2014 and 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4TbomOdn2cks2n5Pvif...

The new hangouts would be more focused on research and development, trying to make Barliman more practical, and would hopefully lead to academic publications. In addition to my interest in logic programming, I'm very interested in how to work with people online to do research and writing.

If this sounds interesting to you, please sign up to the miniKanren uncourse mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/minikanren-uncourse

or contact me directly:

[email protected]

https://twitter.com/webyrd

Thanks!

--Will

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Re:Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor by monorailz on Saturday July 30, 2016 @10:08PM (#12195416)
What will the expected level of prerequisite knowledge be for participating in the hangout?
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Re:Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor by will_byrd on Saturday July 30, 2016 @10:33PM (#12195465)
Good question!

Since I imagine hangouts based on improving/exploring/experimenting with Barliman, or other similar tools, knowledge of interface design, GUI programming, parallel programming, EC2, etc., should be just as useful as knowledge of logic programming, interpreters, type systems, etc.

I think interest, creativity, and a willingness to learn is the only real prerequisite. For more technical aspects of synthesis using relational interpreters, or whatever, I'll probably do a recap of the core areas of the previous hangout series. I'm sure those 40 hours could be boiled down to something much, much shorter.

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Re:Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor by monorailz on Sunday July 31, 2016 @08:38AM (#12196708)
Thanks for the reply. Hope I will have time to join the hangout.
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