Gregory's Server
I love that Conway pitched #Fractran as some ridiculous advertisement as if to compete with turing machines already flooding the market.
"Matches any machine on the market! Make workday real easy!"
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Bookchin getting the future of coding newsletter where every second thing is some LLM bullshit "FUTURISM OF CODING MORE LIKE-"  Le monde n'est pas pret pour ma version gabber de Chanson Heureuse par Francois Perusse.
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The Spreadsheet Microcassette Future
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@neauoire still amazing to me how powerful most of these little spreadsheet apps were and they were like 16k of code or so, vs however many gigs excel is @neauoire missed opportunity to call it like the WorkStation Burroughs or W.S. Burroughs If a Fractran register is always every used on the left side of a rewriting rule, the rule can be removed and its right-side content inlined.. I don't know exactly why that works, but that's kind of a neat little optimization that saves a ton of cycles. Tinkering around with a FRACTRAN library I wrote in Common Lisp :^) I was too lazy to add sequential functions, but it is possible if you assign a unique prime to each function (as it will permit only that function) Prime numbers just happen to be a powerful way to express the concept of "distinct" objects. In this case, the "objects" are registers/memory addresses. Might try replacing primes with strings...   The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
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 @hailey In situations like these, I always think about how many people like to talk of the "social contract", and how that mysteriously only ever gets invoked to place obligations on individuals, and never on states or corporations (as evidenced here once again). Like, people aren't outright pirating because cultural interests are supposed to be balanced by legal exceptions. And leaving aside whether that has ever actually been balanced, if publishers now decide to object to that balance... well. @hailey@hails.org Book publishers are the scum of the earth. I wish all authors just let me send them money directly for their work. Their hostility towards actual preservation via DRM and "purchasing" (actually lending) ebooks online is fucking ridiculous. I haven't bought a book in years now because of shit like this, this is just icing on the cake. Tracking our friends in transit via their AIS, freaking out when there's no position update for more than 3 days, immediately thinking the worse.  Well, fuck. We got an update the moment I posted this, our friends lost their boat, they're in the hospital, fuck fuck
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 @cabtastic This is perfectly splendid. 🥰🙏✨ What kind of sandwich is that, if you don't mind me asking? 🤔 Inspired by @neauoire’s recent post I took a crack at my own version of paradise. Drawing is sloppy but choosing to keep it anyway.  I was reading @cabtastic's newsletter and saw this excellent little tribute fanart idea to Akira Toriyama. I'll try to make one up as well- It's nice out but fuck it, I feel like doodling. @cabtastic Rek pis moi marchait tantot et on se demandais une drole de question sans doute: Incluant toi, et deux-trois autres illustratrices on connait pas grand monde qui sont critique de leur technologies et outils de travail comme tu l'es, je me demandais, ca fait drole de poser la question comme ca mais, en connais tu d'autres.. des comme toi? Si oui, on aimerait bien les connaitre en fait.  "The sensors in our current systems include off-the-shelf webcams, because our current systems are research prototypes. But an ideal sensor might, for example, sense physical material with high fidelity while being blind to human beings. Such sensors are more likely to be developed if we demonstrate the need for them. "We are not proposing a future with cameras everywhere."  @neauoire to each their own, but I’d recommend really sitting with the computing concepts behind realtalk before throwing it out just bc of the projector/camera thing dynamicland depends on. There’s a lot to learn there for everyone "The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated. The importance and value of thinking about our work and why we do it is waved away as a distraction. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."
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 It's part and parcel of the whole Abrahamic dissociative mindset. First we dissociate from Nature. Then we dissociate from our bodies. Then we dissociate from our minds.  This is why the proof is always more interesting than stating the theorem. With the theorem we get a closed form. The proof, on the other hand, is pregnant with possibilities--this is where the real insight lives. Thus, proving a result in mathematics is rooting around in a maze of many paths, and this rooting around builds intuition which is the true learning, not the final result. |
@neauoire damn, someone beat me to an idea of Brainfuck ad 😰