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 5:24

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 (a

[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] 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

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 t