Josh, if you did take the time to put together a collection of links, it
might be helpful to my imaginary historian. Hosting an independent archive
to supplement the newsgroup backlog would be more helpful -- what will
become of ultratechnology.com, for example, now that Jeff Fox is gone? Most
I don't know Hugh, but he appears to be a machinist who never outgrew his
typically American blue-collar knee-jerk homophobia, which in turn
alienated him further from the small handful of his Forth-using peers.
His casually hateful comment on comp.lang.forth, to which Josh links, is
much more
In another domain entirely, some more expressiveness gains:
http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~liu/papers/DistPL-OOPSLA12.pdf
Performance numbers not quite as awesome as Halide, but impressive
nonetheless.
-- Max
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.comwrote:
But, that's exactly the cause for concern! Aside from the fact of
Smalltalk's obsolescence (which isn't really the point), the Squeak plugin
could never be approved by a 'responsible' sysadmin, *because it can run
arbitrary user code*! Squeak's not in the app store for exactly that
reason. You'll
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Martin Baldan martino...@gmail.com wrote:
- Print technology is orders of magnitude more environmentally benign
and affordable.
That seems a pretty strong claim. How do you back it up? Low cost and
environmental impact are supposed to be some of the
-- Max
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Max Orhai max.or...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Martin Baldan martino...@gmail.comwrote:
- Print technology is orders of magnitude more environmentally benign
and affordable.
That seems a pretty strong claim. How do you
sources.
So there are definitely arguments on both sides of the ledger wrt eBooks.
-- Mack
On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:54 PM, BGB wrote:
On 3/8/2012 12:34 PM, Max Orhai wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Martin Baldan martino...@gmail.com
wrote:
- Print technology
Nelson's still kicking, you know: see http://gzigzag.sourceforge.net/ for
some recent spin-offs.
-- Max
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Casey Ransberger
casey.obrie...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Loup
snip
However, Ted Nelson
It's entirely beside the point, but there is another workaround route to
fast parallel code in the (Firefox) browser, called River Trail:
https://github.com/RiverTrail/RiverTrail
Quoting the project wiki:
In a world where the web browser is the user’s window into computing,
browser applications
Some on this list with interests in security may enjoy these, too...
Related:
- The AGERE! (Actors and Agents Reloaded) workshop webpage:
http://www.alice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/AGERE/
- AmbientTalk (actor language for mobile devices):
http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/
-- Max
-- Forwarded
with the use of Category
Theory (it's all about the arrows/morphisms).
Peter
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Max OrHai max.or...@gmail.com wrote:
I've encountered this wet a-life research program before. There's a
biologist at my school who's doing similar stuff... see
http://web.pdx.edu
I've encountered this wet a-life research program before. There's a
biologist at my school who's doing similar stuff... see
http://web.pdx.edu/~niles/Lehman_Lab_at_PSU/Research.html
I think your analogy is quite understated, Subbu. There are an awful lot
more than 2^(2^10) permutations of
random expression trees mutating.
OK, so less Ray's Tierra then Koza's Genetic Programming? Still too much
structure baked in, I'd say. All the GP stuff I've ever seen has been more
about selection than natural evolution; the modularity, replication and
selection is provided for free by the
My thinking out loud response would be that classical control theory may
not be very well suited to CS-type problems, which often can't even be
approximated by linear systems. Cybernetic feedback control, a la Weiner, is
IIRC mostly about systems with a few continuous variables, while our
problems
Thanks for the link! RDP looks quite interesting, and I'm looking forward to
further developments. Some of the space-time leakage problems of the early
FRP models have been addressed with Nillson and Hudak's Arrows-based Yampa
system; could you use any of this in your Haskell RDP implementation?
A couple more references in this vein:
Robert Rosen's work in theoretical biology predates the autopoiesis theory
of Maturana and Varela by a couple decades, and is somewhat more general and
mathematically rigorous. He's not as well-known, but his book *Life
Itself* is well
worth reading,
of the GemStone system implementation
Cheers,
Steve
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Max OrHai max.or...@gmail.com
wrote:
There are certainly practical differences between conventional
relational
databases and hierarchical filesystems, without having to get into
implementation details. I'm
power. I don't mind
giving up the comfort of familiar habits, and I don't give a whit about
delivering a product to anyone. That's why I read this list.
-- Max
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.netwrote:
On 23/06/2011, at 12:35 PM, Max OrHai wrote:
People who
There are certainly practical differences between conventional relational
databases and hierarchical filesystems, without having to get into
implementation details. I'm sure at least a few people on this list are
familiar with the BeOS filesystem, which acted much more like a relational
DBMS than
Prograph, much like Self, looks to be another tragic visual programming
language story (and the moving obituary for the lead developer on the
Andescotia Marten website doesn't help!)
As far as I'm aware, the visual dataflow language that gets the most actual
use nowadays (albeit in a narrow niche
Thank Ward Cunningham, nearly fifteen years ago, long before the appearance
of Jimmy Wales and his ilk. Of course, the idea of a Pattern Language is
due to Christopher Alexander, in the seventies. And as for where he got
it...
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
snip ...
there is not a whole lot that seems in common between a browser and an OS.
yes, there is Chrome OS, but I sort of suspect this will (probably) fall on
its face (vs... say... installing real Linux on the netbooks...).
You might get a kick out of this toy model I made to demonstrate how a mesh
(or cloud) of minimal hardware actors can work together to compute. It's
the latest in a series of explorations of the particle / field concept...
http://cs.pdx.edu/~orhai/mesh-sort
I think there's a lot that can be done
This sounds like a really cool project, and I hope you report to the list as
you make progress. Have you looked at Jecel Assumpcao's SiliconSqueak? An
awful lot can be done on the cheap with modern FPGAs, so long as you don't
stray *too* far from the conventional CPU design space... (For an
Ok, Ok, me too. Thanks for the prompt, Z-Bo.
How about these classics:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html
...and of course http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_fab_labs.html
(My
Would he be kind enough to post it somewhere the rest of us can use it?
-- Max
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Sachin Desai smde...@pacbell.net wrote:
Thanks Dan,
Ted Kaehler was kind enough to send me a plugin which works with the image.
-- Sachin
On Nov 19, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Dan
Also, some interesting research along these lines by Stephanie Forrest of
the University of New Mexico:
http://genprog.adaptive.cs.unm.edu/
-- Max
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Murat Girgin gir...@gmail.com wrote:
Cunningham's Extreme Genetic Programming might be of interest:
I think Ryan has best articulated what it's all about for me anyway:
regaining control of our technology. Simplicity and clarity are, to some
extent, their own imperative. That's nothing new: Occam's Razor has long
been the dominant aesthetic in mathematics and the natural sciences at
least. In a
of Pestov introducing Factor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g
- Max OrHai
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be, though: I'll defer to the more experienced.
- Max
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Max,
Well, what properties do you think might be enormously problematic with
stack languages ?
Cheers,
Alan
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