that they'd care to comment on?
Here's a Google Tech Talks video of Pestov introducing Factor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g
- Max OrHai
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narrower than it could be, though: I'll defer to the more experienced.
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On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> Well, what properties do you think might be "enormously problematic" with
> stack languages ?
>
> Cheers,
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
Just to clarify, I'm a bit uncomfortable with "productivity" talk here
because it seems too narrow and ill-defined. Productivity of what
exactly? By whom? For whom? To what end? To a specific manager of a specific
project in a specific development phase, these questions may have specific,
meaningfu
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Steve Dekorte wrote:
> It seems as if each computing culture fails to establish a measure for it's
> own goals which leaves it with no means of critically analyzing it's
> assumptions resulting in the technical equivalent of religious dogma. From
> this perspectiv
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 wrote:
> Cunningham's "Extreme Genetic Programming" might be of interest:
> http://www.neocoretechs.
y little computers is a good
match for Alan Kay's vision of a dynamic network of metaphorical 'little
computers', but in any case I think that they deserve a shout-out.
Regards,
-- Max OrHai
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
> John Zabroski wrote:
>
> &
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 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 Amelang wrote:
>
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 fav
The best active essays I've seen lately are NetLogo 'models'. While NetLogo
was never intended to be a general-purpose programming language, and there
are quite a few things it just gets wrong, I'm quite impressed by the
diversity of the simulations made with it, as well as the clarity and
'natural
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 example
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
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, BGB 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...).
>
BGB, you're
"just work" for the fairly simple tasks I expect of them.
-- Max
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:19 PM, BGB wrote:
> On 6/10/2011 12:45 PM, Max OrHai wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, BGB wrote:
> < snip ... >
>
>> there is not a whole lot tha
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...
http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/patternsframe.htm?/leveltwo/.
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
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 tha
environment We recount the problems with existing models
> >> and database systems We then show how features of Smalltalk, such such
> >> as operational semantics, its type hierarchy, entity identity and the
> >> merging of programming and data language, solve many of those
edia
capabilities and increasing the overall expressive 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 wrote:
>
>
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, although
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
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
problem
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 elemen
> 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 th
fe
> Itself") how biological systems can be modeled 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 wrote:
>
>> I've encountered this "wet a-life"
This is a good one. Sussman, like many pioneers, is refreshingly
un-dogmatic, perhaps as a consequence of having never been properly
indoctrinated by the standard CS curriculum. Plus, he's both brilliant and
by this point very experienced in solving lots of real problems.
FWIW, he could certainly
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 me
Criticism of the OLPC project is easy to find, so I won't repeat much of it
here, except to say that I find their whole model obnoxiously
paternalistic; it's based on centralized government-controlled institutions
(that is, schools), government and NGO subsidies for equipment, dependence
on foreign
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 m
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
wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
>
>> Hi Loup
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>> However, Ted Nelson said a lot in each of the last
Well, I for one dislike e-books (and honestly I don't care all that much
for computers either!), so I could add a few things off the top of my head
to this summing-up:
- Real books don't need power, are readable outdoors without eyestrain
(more than can be said for the iPad and its imitators), and
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Martin Baldan 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 strong points
s.pdf
-- Max
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Max Orhai wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Martin Baldan wrote:
>
>> >
>> > - Print technology is orders of magnitude more environmentally benign
>> > and affordable.
>> >
>>
>>
ndly, but the commercial process
> to
> > produce it is rife with chorine, dioxin, etc. not to mention heavy
> thermal
> > pollution of water sources.
> >
> > So there are definitely arguments on both sides of the ledger wrt eBooks.
> >
> > -- Mack
> >
> >
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 n
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:46 PM, David Barbour wrote:
Where we do give up determinism, it should be explicit and carefully
> considered, and we should have a lot of control over exactly where it leaks
> into our programs.
>
Hear, hear! And another thing: the mathematics of probability is pretty
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 wrote:
> Looks like an intere
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 poig
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
help
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