MycroftJones

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by MycroftJones 28d ago
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
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by MycroftJones 2mo ago
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 polyethyle
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by MycroftJones 2mo ago
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.githu
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by MycroftJones 3mo ago
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.
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by MycroftJones 5mo ago
And claude is back up.
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by MycroftJones 6mo ago
Claude has been doing a pretty good job at writing newlisp code, reasonably idiomatic too. newlisp is a niche language.
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by MycroftJones 10mo ago
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.
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by MycroftJones 1y ago
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.
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by MycroftJones 4y ago
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 ver
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by MycroftJones 6y ago
Have you looked at newlisp? It has pretty seamless interop with C pointers.
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by MycroftJones 6y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 6y ago
Glad to hear he said that. He is right.
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by MycroftJones 6y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 7y ago
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.
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by MycroftJones 7y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 7y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 7y ago
Thank you Stanley. Been wanting this for a long time.
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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.
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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 i
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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 &quot
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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?
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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) wh
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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.
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
Looks interesting. Can it be used to implement live wallpaper?
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
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
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
You can get Japanese Knotweed powder from Montana Farmacy. It helped a friend of mine he is now functional. One or two tablespoons a day.
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by MycroftJones 8y ago
Me too, thanks for that set of links. Any links on connecting it up to Google's Cloud AI stuff to train it to recognize the crack-heads when they are peeking in the windows of peoples cars and rattling the doors of their tool sheds?

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