Re: [fonc] New Bret Victor demos

2013-06-02 Thread shawnmorel
It's pretty difficult to visually express a class of objects (or any concept that is meta to the concrete, really) unless you perhaps used the greek concept of icon, however we've overused that in computing such that an icon is now taken to mean the thing it's an icon for… Category theory

Re: [fonc] To fork or not to fork? (was: Hacking Maru)

2013-10-23 Thread shawnmorel
Since we're on the topic of forking... About a year and a half ago, I basically took maru-2.1 apart and rebuilt it from scratch as a learning experiment. Also, in the spirit of fonc and the sciences of the artificial, I wanted to write experiments against the maru system - these of course boil

[fonc] Mill CPU architecture specification

2014-05-25 Thread shawnmorel
I don’t think anything about the mill has been posted here before. Here Ivan covers the way entire architecture families are generated from specifications. Including programmatically defining ASM code in a high level language (C++ in this case) but there’s conceptual overlap in how Maru allows

Re: [fonc] Morphic 3 defensive disclosure

2014-09-19 Thread shawnmorel
- I use something better than pixel coverage: pre filtering. I’m actually really curious about this. Is there a version of this paper that you own copyrights to that you could point us to? http://ip.com/IPCOM/000232657 Would you be interested in creating a clean, totally not optimized (and

Re: [fonc] Morphic 3 defensive disclosure

2014-09-24 Thread shawnmorel
Agreed. these are impressive! I was curious about the defensive disclosure. Are you intending to patent this work or simply preventing a non-open source implementation from claiming patent infringements? I’d be curious to try and recreate some of these results :) shawn On Sep 24, 2014, at