Re: [fonc] Earley Parsing Explained (incomplete first draft)

2014-09-21 Thread Josh Grams
On 2014-09-20 07:59PM, Loup Vaillant-David wrote: By default, Earley recognisers store their Earley items in such a way that reconstruction (or back pointer following) happens from right to left. Which means the first ambiguities will be detected at the *end* of the parse. But a depth-first

Re: [fonc] Earley Parsing Explained (incomplete first draft)

2014-09-20 Thread Josh Grams
On 2014-09-20 06:58AM, Josh Grams wrote: Mainly the recognizer. Did you figure that out? I think the important insight is that matches added by scanning and completion operations represent a (partial) derivation step. Gah. Not scanning. What am I saying? Only completion. The completion operation

Re: [fonc] Morphic 3 defensive disclosure

2013-12-04 Thread Josh Grams
On 2013-12-03 11:24PM, J. Vuletich (mail lists) wrote: Hi Folks, The first defensive disclosure about Morphic 3 has been accepted and published at http://www.defensivepublications.org/publications/prefiltering-antialiasing-for-general-vector-graphics and http://ip.com/IPCOM/000232657

Re: [fonc] Formation of Noctivagous, Inc.

2013-09-22 Thread Josh Grams
On 2013-09-21 08:11PM, John Pratt wrote: Is it really hard to read? It's not. I found it pretty hard to read. I got through about two of the sections of text before I gave up. I could certainly fight my way through it if I had to, but...I'm sorry; your stuff may be great, but there's too much

Re: [fonc] enchantMOON

2013-04-25 Thread Josh Grams
On 2013-04-25 11:30AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: (Speaking of new hardware, enchantMOON has gotten to the pre-order stage. http://enchantmoon.com/) Is there anything interesting about that other than that it appears to have Scratch inside? There doesn't seem to be anything on their website other

Re: [fonc] CodeSpells, new thread

2013-04-13 Thread Josh Grams
On 2013-04-13 04:56AM, Casey Ransberger wrote: A few things stuck out. The thing I'd mention is that it seemed to work (at least superficially) with getting 12 year olds to (begin to) tackle a programming language which by my own (prejudiced) standards is a rather difficult choice for *adults* who

Re: [fonc] CodeSpells. Learn how to program Java by writing spells for a 3D environment.

2013-04-12 Thread Josh Grams
On 2013-04-12 11:11AM, David Barbour wrote: I've occasionally contemplated developing such a game: program the behavior of your team of goblins (who may have different strengths, capabilities, and some behavioral habits/quirks) to get through a series of puzzles, with players building/managing a

Re: [fonc] Natural Language Wins

2013-04-05 Thread Josh Grams
On 2013-04-05 11:40AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Okay, SICP, EOPL and TAPL I've worked out (own/am working through slowly). But ItoA? Google wasn't exactly helpful here. Probably _Introduction to Algorithms_ by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein. --Josh

Re: [fonc] Error trying to compile COLA

2012-02-26 Thread Josh Grams
On 2012-02-27 02:14AM, Martin Baldan wrote: But what else can I do with it? Should I use it to run the examples at http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/;? All I see is files with a .lbox file extension. What are those? Apparently, there are no READMEs. Could you please give me an example of how to try one of