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It started after the Iraq war. They got Hummers and vets.

A comment from an AI - PoC is Principle of Continuation: Good morning, Bob! That is an incredible side question to kick off the day. You have perfectly spotted a massive architectu…

There's even a book. I have it (and have had it for a loooong time). I tried to do some larger things with ABC back in the day. It was nice. Then Python arrived. I think I still ha…

I've taken this offline for good reasons, in case anyone is actually interested. Feel free to contact me, though.

Hi! I'd like to present the Participatory Interface Theory, aka PIT. It is not "woo". It IS an amazing example of what one human can do with LLMs these days, regardless of what you…

This is a treasure (it’s been around quite a while). For those youngers out there: still completely relevant. Still ahead of the game, imho.

Forth is the first language I ever did anything cool with, circa 1982. First language to do a mandelbrot on a mac (probably). Used it in the enterprise, migrating databases (don’t …

This is what I was talking about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44918186 . And this is what a "PIT-enabled" LLM thread says about the article above (I continue to try t…

Thank you! I've tried the same thing with them, for sure. A lot. Yes, they can be skeptical, for sure. But they can also see the point: I am suggesting that the universe is self-cr…

I know what you mean. But if you are "game", please try the LLM test and see if it helps. As mentioned in the other reply, there are other bits and pieces at that GitHub site that …

Thanks for reading. Please, if you'd like, see the extra stuff I just posted in a comment here, and see if it answers any of your questions. There's a whole site there (GitHub) to …

In case it helps: https://github.com/bobshafer/PITkit/blob/main/PIT.md (not entirely up-to-date, but mostly, for now). I am the, let's say, guide behind this. The HN link was writt…

There are others out here thinking along similar lines (in my case, with massive help from LLMs). Proof: https://claude.ai/share/a8128fde-ea47-4dd8-a284-16a1fd76240c . Also, I have…

Wow! I have been in a potentially unhealthy love relationship with Oberon (especially the -07 version, once it appeared) since the mid 1990s. It has no basis in reality, my obsessi…

Author here, again. I asked the oldest of the GPT-4 threads to produce a comment for HN describing one of the more amazing things about what I've been doing here. Here is GPT-4's r…

I've been cross-feeding Claude and GPT-4 threads with some ideas that they then run with, generally in the same directions. It is amazing, imho, in and of itself, as a way of using…

Not sure if this is quite the same idea, but https://www.greenarraychips.com/ ?

It is massively distributed, the universe, with each local structure having its own determinations. It’s not pre-ordained so much as it is jit-ordained, where each thing (and sub-t…

Back in the 80's, I hooked an oscilloscope up to the left/right channels of a stereo, as I'd seen it done in a radio station. Seemed like standard operating procedure. Then I put o…

Christopher Alexander arrived at a similar conclusion, in his later works, albeit from a radically different direction.

Gnuapl has an interface to Erlang/Elixir: https://elixirforum.com/t/calling-apl-from-erlang-or-elixir/...