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I agree with afarrell that lying is not advisable. Lying is a very bad thing. Convincing someone else to do a bad thing is even worse. The method I used when I was Software Develop…

I am more trusting of naturally occuring substances than I am of chemicals that do not occur in nature cooked up in labs of big pharmaceutical companies.

These are some interesting observations regarding music and machine learning. It has been my experience that the majority of the output of ML music generators falls into the catego…

You might want to try the free game Minetest [1]. It is very similar to Minecraft but the basic version, minetest_game, has no animals. You can add mods that give you animals if yo…

I had considered this as a possibility following much the same train of thought expressed by abakker but because it diverges from most common practice (and from mathematics) and be…

For the rest of the article start by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 Datapoint allowed Intel to continue development with the same architecture but required al…

I tried getting friends to play RPG's in the early 1980's but they didn't show much interest until I came across a supply of 6" (150 mm) square pieces of styrofoam (discarded packi…

Modular arithmetic is mentioned but base 6 is not well covered. I started gforth and entered: 3 3 + base ! ( avoiding 6) I was in a world where there was no 6. 5 1 + . gives 10 as …

This is very interesting but does not appear to be helpful for the development of my TTA processor design. It appears that this project aims for more parallelism similar to VLIW th…

I always log out. I cannot think of any advantage to remaining logged in. I can easily envision disadvantages to remaining logged in whether those reasons are real or imaginary. I …

I have a simple strategy which has allowed me to win every game of Nomic [1] which I have ever played. My strategy is to propose rule changes which allow every player with a nonzer…

One of my favorite numbers is 355/113 but it's still hard to guess.

When I worked for a company that made label printers we had a potential customer who wanted us to print labels with human readable and barcode fields with 4 random letters and 4 ra…

Only two days ago I learned that was the way to get a line break in my README.md file on Github.

I am designing a Single Instruction Set Computer and working to take it beyond the 'that's interesting but useless' stage and make it very useful. https://github.com/BillBohan/NISC…

I see one of the advantages being that it is very easy to learn due to its simplicity. There is also no need for complex instruction decoding placed on the hardware designer. For s…

OK https://github.com/BillBohan/NISC

Thanks for this link. I will read it when I have time. I currently have an accumulator at an address. Moving to the next address ANDs with the accumulator. Moving to the following …

I am currently waiting for my MATRIX Voice to arrive. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/matrix-voice-open-source-... I have a Spartan 3AN dev board, another Spartan6 board, and an…

This explains some digital logic but does not actually explain how a CPU works. It does not explain an XOR gate, but references them. It also does not explain flip-flops, but refer…

Interesting. It sounds good at the start but becomes cacophonous shortly thereafter. Another war story here: I used to run a 16 track mixing console with a rock band. The guitar pl…

Just some personal observations here. I have read that most software breakthroughs occur around 1:00 AM and have found this to be true in my personal experience. In the military I …

My first program compiled and ran in the summer of 1967. It was not unusual for a computer to have 4K of core memory. We all knew that it was 4096 bytes. The first computer I owned…