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First pixels ever drawn from #Modal, a string rewriting system. The only way to program this strange computer is by defining rules that replace lengths of text in a source file.  @neauoire I had a fever dream about a computer that could only run one piece of software which was self modifying and the source had to be twisted in real time to do what you needed. The program was fixed length, and always had to stay that length, so you could only overwrite bytes. I feel like you might make this real. "Work on something that matters, if only to you. i have rational numbers mostly-implemented in modal. example: > (str (mul (Q (+ sixteen ten)) (Q (- sixteen ten)))) https://git.phial.org/d6/modal/src/branch/d6/binary/arith.modal#L378 i just can't seem to stop. i think computable real numbers will be possible too. Just released the list of changes and updates to the Hundred Rabbits projects for April 2024. A day late because we are on the move, yesterday was a busy day on the water. Pino is heading northward! Today I met a Toronto live coder who runs Orca workshops on Twitch! The next one is on Sunday, and you can see the first one in his VODs.  Oh I realized the website doesn't say, but it starts at 11 AM. Or 11:30? Not quite sure. I'll try and be in chat at 11 this Sunday.
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Solar charging the Thinkpad with the 12v charger is so much nicer than running through the noisy inverter. The past two summers, I was using the pinebook, but at the end of the last summer it nearly caught on fire, so I put it to rest and will use the thinkpad throughout this time around. @neauoire ooh im looking for a 12v charger for my thinkpad to go play outside, which one did you get? If I had, say, an exam coming up in which I had to write programs in Uxntal, but wasn't allowed internet access. Here are some pages I would print physical copies of, and bring along with me: https://ret2pop.nullring.xyz/blog/cognition.html very interesting and mind-blowing language with no syntax that has to bootstrap the tokenizer
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 Yeah, such a witty and warmhearted portrait of a warmhearted true mathematician. There are many recorded lectures and interviews with the man around, all worth listening to. I was about 10 when Conway's Life became widely known, and it got me. I spent days on end filling graph paper with experimental Life evolutions (no computers then, of course). I once tried to understand his On Numbers and Games but failed. His little textbook on Automata is lovely. A great man.
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I've started pondering what a computer system based entirely on string rewriting might be like. As my brief irregular contribution to the uxn/varvara scene, uxnds 0.4.10 is out: https://github.com/asiekierka/uxnds/releases/tag/v0.4.10 What's that word for when search results are polluted by javascript frameworks named after the thing you're looking for because the creator thought it sounded cool?
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@tbsp that's a fancy debugger wow! well done : ) It's the first time I actually see it in action! |
@neauoire What do you do in that situation?
@neauoire time to run some large language model queries on your laptop!
Sorry, I'll see myself out... 🙃
@neauoire safe trips! hope everything goes well! enjoy the great ball of fire in the sky!