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Re: Turtletoy

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post #56

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why does hacker news redirect the link like that? isn't this a major bug and security issue?

It's JWZ's way of expressing his opinion of HN, by serving up content when HN is the referrer.

oh. i didn't even notice the words at the time, probably because i wasn't looking for it since i had no idea who this person is. i had made the assumption that hacker news' link shortening did something to it.

Re: Turtletoy

#62

If you like this project, you may be interested in a similar project that I did a while back using using the turtle interpretation of grammars to represent connections between LEGO bricks: https://github.com/jncraton/connectiongrammar The "API" is admittedly quite poor currently, as I just quickly hacked this together on top of NLTK, but I was able to put together some fun results.

That's a really cool one. Do you know of any attempts to learn a connection gramar, instead of creating it by hand?

Re: Turtletoy

#63
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's JWZ's way of expressing his opinion of HN, by serving up content when HN is the referrer.

oh. i didn't even notice the words at the time, probably because i wasn't looking for it since i had no idea who this person is. i had made the assumption that hacker news' link shortening did something to it.

HackerNews doesn't impose any link shortening. Which is great.

Re: Turtletoy

#64

If you like this project, you may be interested in a similar project that I did a while back using using the turtle interpretation of grammars to represent connections between LEGO bricks: https://github.com/jncraton/connectiongrammar The "API" is admittedly quite poor currently, as I just quickly hacked this together on top of NLTK, but I was able to put together some fun results.

That's a really cool one. Do you know of any attempts to learn a connection gramar, instead of creating it by hand?

I'm not aware of anything like that. It should be possible, though. When models are available for the elements, as they are with LEGO, it should be as simple as identifying connection types and mapping them to spatial movements.

Re: Turtletoy

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post #47

This takes me back. I remember learning Logo at school when I was 10 or 11 and had a project to do using Logo. For some reason I couldn't make it into school for a few weeks, I'm not sure if I was ill or something else but was going to miss the project hand in date, so I wrote the code on paper while I was at home as I didn't have a Logo compiler or interpreter for my ZX Spectrum. My teacher put my code into the inte…

> Of course Logo wasn't the most complex language ever Logo's turtle graphics aren't the most complex language ever, but underneath of it is a Lisp without the parentheses, which is quite powerful including list processing and recursion.

Well, I didn't know that! My Logo days are well past and have no recollection of doing anything more than using turtle graphics to draw tanks.
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