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alexshendion Tokens too cheap to meter

These are properly called "GPUs", as in "Grep Processing Units"!

alexshendion Schemy Lisp En DOS

Gambit-C 3.0 binaries are available at: https://gambitscheme.org/3.0/gc30-dj.zip (for DOS/DJGPP)

The other versions from https://gambitscheme.org/3.0/ are Windows or MacOS Classic binaries.

Needs a 386+ CPU, though.

alexshendion TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster

As you seem to be the author: will this run on a voyage 200? Also: very impressive.

alexshendion You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML

But I want to!

alexshendion Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]

Honestly, I don't understand this. AFAIK colorForth was a standalone system for Pentium class machines. How do Windows updates come into this?

alexshendion Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

Oil cooling. Besides this is a peak power value, so thermal constraints don't matter. Continous power is given around 350-400 kW.

(Sources: https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens... and https://yasa.com/technology/)

alexshendion IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

My favourite is Texas Instruments PC-Scheme. Complete with Emacs-like editor. You could compile and evaluate regions in the editor. It is amazing what you can do in 2MB or even 640K.

alexshendion ML on Apple ][+

This motivates me to try this on my Ministrel 4th (21th century Jupiter Ace clone).

alexshendion MS-DOS development resources

Scheme Compilers:

* Gambit-C 3.0 for MS-DOS (https://gambitscheme.org/3.0/gc30-dj.zip)

* MIT-Scheme 7.3 for DOS: (https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-7.3/pc/)

Both need a 386+.

* PC-Scheme/Geneva (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/...) Bytecode compiler, runs on 8086+, can use up to 2MB of EMS memory.

alexshendion Software Rot

Common Object File Format (COFF)?

alexshendion Software Rot

I think once you get rid of dynamic libraries and GUIs your software rot will be greatly reduced.

alexshendion Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD

Does it come with dtksh? (dtksh or dtmksh, not sure)

alexshendion SIOF (Scheme in One File) – A Minimal R7RS Scheme System

There's also s4iof (R4RS), s5iof (R5RS) and skint (R7RS, but hey 5 .c files), all from the same people. I might interject that R4RS might seem preferable for the minimalist cadre.

alexshendion DOOM CAPTCHA

I couldn't do it. I suppose I'm a Russian CyberBot! дружба!

alexshendion SqueakJS: A modern and practical Smalltalk that runs in any browser (2014) [pdf]

Great paper. Don't know how I managed to miss it.

alexshendion Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)

I think we need a 1337 cent coin!

alexshendion Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)

I once joined a Clojure group for reading SICM. But then the discussion turned out to be more about porting the stuff to Clojure than physics.

alexshendion AI Develops "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free of Rare Earth Metals

This is one of a slew of articles containing the following claims:

* magnet material was created used a new "AI platform"

* development process is 200x faster

* (raw ?) material costs are down to 50%

* carbon material emissions down to 70%

What is not said:

* Any kind of detail about the magnet material or material performance

Overall they seem much more intent on selling their "innovative, new AI material design process" than the material process

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alexshendion Ask HN: How do you explain LLMs to those *still* unfamiliar?

Wait until the hype is over?

alexshendion Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX

Maybe you'd be interested in this:

https://github.com/timonoko/Nokolisp_On_Nokia_phone

But I can't figure out how to install it, while I know how to build nokolisp with MASM. Thus the MSDOS based Nokolisp is more useful, at least for me.

BTW the cited HN posting contains at least one factual error: The Nokia Communicator 9110 was based on an 486SX SOC, not an 80186.

But to each his own.

alexshendion Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX

More details on: http://win98.altervista.org/9110/dos9k/aboutdos.html

alexshendion Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX

You probably only need access to DOS on your Communicator. To achieve this you need to create a file B:\NOKIA\INSTALL.BAT and reboot the communicator. From this batch file you can call Nokolisp. If "INSTALL.BAT" exits the normal GEOS shell will start.

alexshendion BootLogo: Logo language in 508 bytes of x86 machine code

But still impressive. I will see, if I can massage Justine Tunney's sectorlisp into something resembling a (subset of) LOGO, probably w/o turtle graphics. Deliverable will probably be a DOS COM-file rather than a boot sector.

alexshendion BootLogo: Logo language in 508 bytes of x86 machine code

No way to define procedures and no list processing? Hardly LOGO.

alexshendion Get your work recognized: write a brag document (2019)

* Is Superman/Spiderman/Batman, but wearing a business suit.

alexshendion Simple Open-Source Java Virtual Machine in C

I tried to get it to run Peter Norvig's JScheme [1]. Apparently I also need a class library like GNU classpath?

DISCLAIMER: not a Java expert or even practitoner.

[1] http://norvig.com/jscheme.html

alexshendion The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird

I think a better candidate for a comparison to the 1984 Mac would be the Xerox Star:

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star#/media/File%3AXer...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star

alexshendion Users are canceling their GPT-4 subscriptions and OpenAI doesn't seem to care

I don't think that these comments can be taken seriously either as an endorsement or a critique of GPT-4.

alexshendion Prolog for data science

This is a bit OT, but does anyone know free implementations of logic programming languages other than Prolog? Portability is a bonus.

I already know:

* Strand

* http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fleng/fleng.ht...

* Racket's implementation of datalog

TIA.