MycroftJones

Thank you. Was just wondering because the items in the Changelog look.... LLMish. Not something I'd have expected from OpenBSD. On the other hand, it looks like they've done a bunch of improvements I'd have assumed they'd done years ago. I wouldn't blame them.

When I read the Changelog I had to check if it was April Fools day. Is this a real OpenBSD release? Feels early. Also, many of those changes don't sound like real OpenBSD changes.

Check out this port of microgpt to C, posted 5 months ago. It got a 2500x speedup over the python version. https://github.com/moebiusV/cugpt

It trades thermal batteries for electrical batteries. Good choice. Bury it in the ground and have a few hundred pounds of pig iron ingots to be the thermal battery, you're gold. I'd even use lead weights, covered with polyethylene sheeting, as the thermal battery, the density is really nice.

Last year I designed a solar powered freezer for use in Zimbabwe that doesn't need any solar panels at all. Completely passive. It's a cousin to the refrigerator design that Einstein came up with.

What the Viking Poets Knew (and AI Researchers Need To) has some discussion of J-space in Chapter 3. The things the book mentions are being discovered and implemented in real time. Just 6 more layers to go. https://moebiusv.github.io/papers/papers/viking-poets/

Fantastic! Is there something like this also for the scratch and hiss of old LP vinyl records? And the various types of squeals, crackles and fuzz of old ham radio setups? Never found anything that can really simulate those well.

And claude is back up.

Claude has been doing a pretty good job at writing newlisp code, reasonably idiomatic too. newlisp is a niche language.

I like how the McCarthy's paper maps the fundamental operations to machine instructions and memory model. It's like something you can actually implement.

That page didn't have a formula, in either cartesian or polar coordinates, for the shape of the object. Lots of formulas, but I didn't see anything I could use to create a 3d mesh and print one of these things out on my printer.

Gematria number system is a comparatively modern invention. Researching the old weights, measures, and coins of Israel show good evidence that the Egyptian number system was used, which is a somewhat decimal numbering system. Would be very cool if this language used the ancient Egyptian number system instead of this new-fangled gematria stuff. Then the numbers would be visually very distinct as well.

Have you looked at newlisp? It has pretty seamless interop with C pointers.

Short answer, to save you reading the article: VxWorks. But there may be more interesting info on pages 2 or 3 of the article. I am curious how VxWorks manages the update procedure. How does it do what it does. How is remote debugging in space using VxWorks; is it anything like the Lisp stuff that JPL used to do?

Glad to hear he said that. He is right.

Amazon generally has a "pre-order" option. If there was a pre-order option, I also would order your book. By the time your book is in print, I will have forgotten about it. Fascinating topic; nice to see good coverage. I always felt that callbacks and exception handling left a little something to be desired. It looks like you've addressed that.

When your book is in print and available for sale I hope you post again here as a reminder.

A fexpr (funny expression) is a runtime macro. It is a funcall where the arguments are evaluated at runtime not compile time. picolisp, newlisp, and I think lisp 1.5 had fexprs.

Where is this 1k/acre land in Canada? Is it in a place where you can do these following things? a) build a house b) buy it an acre at a time c) grow a reasonable crop d) be within reasonable distance to a city and the markets thereof

In Canada particularly, climate is an issue for growing crops. Wheat takes 100 days to mature. The growing season in the prairies is 110 days. If the climate drops 1 degree Celcius you lose 10 days off your growing season. If your growing season is delayed by cold or flooding, you don't get a crop that year. In the prairies it takes about 10 acres to sustain 1 cow year round. Throughout Canada there are all kinds of restrictions about how many houses and people you can have on your land. The concept of "starter house" and "starter farm" doesn't exist anymore. There is the nobility, and there are the serfs. We just don't call them that.

I define "winter" as the time honeybees don't fly. Summer bees don't fly below 13 Celsius, and winter bees don't fly below 8 Celcius. Winter bees are the first ones out of the hive in spring, raising up the summer bees for the big harvest.

Thank you Stanley. Been wanting this for a long time.

I notice recently that the hipsters over on Metafilter are trying to smear bread bakers as "brogrammers" and "neckbeards". What is wrong with them.

And you are right about the rising time. I do an 8 hour rise. Doctor Carrie Reams said that the rising time breaks down the phytates which in turn releases the calcium into a form that the body can digest. 2 hour rise doesn't do that.

page 6 of the PDF, a continuation is essentially the return address of a subroutine call. But then there are scoping rules that interact with that simplicity.

I've read the first few pages. Looks like an interesting paper and I'll read it further. Only flaw is that it doesn't cover Steve Russell being the first to discover/invent continuations. Steve Russell was the first implementor of LISP, and gave it its final syntax after McCarthy did his design work on it.

Yep. And back in the 1970's Chuck Moore wrote a book describing the implementation and design of FORTH, and it is pretty close to LISP. And I asked Chuck Moore directly, in person, if there was a connection to LISP, and he said "yes".

Thank you, I'll take a look. I thought they were cooked in oil, how would I find out if they were air or oil fried?

This DanBC has poor comprehension, I specified that IN CANADA, whole wheat flour is free of enrichments. By law. Any grain product that isn't whole grain, is enriched. By law. I reached out to CFIA (Canada Food Inspection Agency) which is in charge of such things, and they told me what the regulations are.

In Canada, whole wheat flour doesn't contain these additives. I spoke to the CFIA (Canada Food Inspection Agency) and they told me their rules and regulations. Whole wheat doesn't have additives, anything else does. America may be a different story, but I don't live there.

If there are any brands of whole wheat (unenriched), air fried ramen noodles available in Canada or North America, please post here. Been wanting them for 3 years now. Enriched flour has been linked to diabetes and obesity by some pretty dramatic studies. These links below are not the studies themselves, but summaries of current knowledge and research, put in context.

HOW FOOD ENRICHMENT MADE US FAT, DIABETIC, AND CHRONICALLY DISEASED http://freetheanimal.com/2015/05/enrichment-diabetic-chronic...

IRON, FOOD ENRICHMENT AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING http://freetheanimal.com/2015/06/enrichment-theory-everythin...

HOW FOOD ENRICHMENT PROMOTES OBESITY (“THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING” WIDER AND DEEPER) http://freetheanimal.com/2016/05/enrichment-promotes-everyth...

Where can you buy these atta ramen? In Canada, any wheat flour that isn't atta, has various "enrichments" added in, such as ferrous sulfate and B vitamin complexes which mess with your appetite and inflame your intestines.

Looks interesting. Can it be used to implement live wallpaper?

This video shows an even better way to remove ticks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82n9-eAoLjE

You take a q-tip. Soak in alcohol. Use it to gently rotate/spin the tick around its axis. After a few 360 degree turns, it will release its jaws and pop out all by itself, leaving nothing behind.