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It trades thermal batteries for electrical batteries. Good choice. Bury it in the ground and have a few hundred pounds of pig iron ingots to be the thermal battery, you're gold. I'…

What the Viking Poets Knew (and AI Researchers Need To) has some discussion of J-space in Chapter 3. The things the book mentions are being discovered and implemented in real time.…

Fantastic! Is there something like this also for the scratch and hiss of old LP vinyl records? And the various types of squeals, crackles and fuzz of old ham radio setups? Never fo…

And claude is back up.

Claude has been doing a pretty good job at writing newlisp code, reasonably idiomatic too. newlisp is a niche language.

I like how the McCarthy's paper maps the fundamental operations to machine instructions and memory model. It's like something you can actually implement.

That page didn't have a formula, in either cartesian or polar coordinates, for the shape of the object. Lots of formulas, but I didn't see anything I could use to create a 3d mesh …

Gematria number system is a comparatively modern invention. Researching the old weights, measures, and coins of Israel show good evidence that the Egyptian number system was used, …

Have you looked at newlisp? It has pretty seamless interop with C pointers.

Short answer, to save you reading the article: VxWorks. But there may be more interesting info on pages 2 or 3 of the article. I am curious how VxWorks manages the update procedure…

Glad to hear he said that. He is right.

Amazon generally has a "pre-order" option. If there was a pre-order option, I also would order your book. By the time your book is in print, I will have forgotten about it. Fascina…

A fexpr (funny expression) is a runtime macro. It is a funcall where the arguments are evaluated at runtime not compile time. picolisp, newlisp, and I think lisp 1.5 had fexprs.

Where is this 1k/acre land in Canada? Is it in a place where you can do these following things? a) build a house b) buy it an acre at a time c) grow a reasonable crop d) be within …

I define "winter" as the time honeybees don't fly. Summer bees don't fly below 13 Celsius, and winter bees don't fly below 8 Celcius. Winter bees are the first ones out of the hive…

Thank you Stanley. Been wanting this for a long time.

I notice recently that the hipsters over on Metafilter are trying to smear bread bakers as "brogrammers" and "neckbeards". What is wrong with them. And you are right about the risi…

page 6 of the PDF, a continuation is essentially the return address of a subroutine call. But then there are scoping rules that interact with that simplicity.

I've read the first few pages. Looks like an interesting paper and I'll read it further. Only flaw is that it doesn't cover Steve Russell being the first to discover/invent continu…

Yep. And back in the 1970's Chuck Moore wrote a book describing the implementation and design of FORTH, and it is pretty close to LISP. And I asked Chuck Moore directly, in person,…

Thank you, I'll take a look. I thought they were cooked in oil, how would I find out if they were air or oil fried?

This DanBC has poor comprehension, I specified that IN CANADA, whole wheat flour is free of enrichments. By law. Any grain product that isn't whole grain, is enriched. By law. I re…

In Canada, whole wheat flour doesn't contain these additives. I spoke to the CFIA (Canada Food Inspection Agency) and they told me their rules and regulations. Whole wheat doesn't …

If there are any brands of whole wheat (unenriched), air fried ramen noodles available in Canada or North America, please post here. Been wanting them for 3 years now. Enriched flo…