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#lispygopherclimate #lisp #lambdamoo #programming #podcast #live https://communitymedia.video/w/5vAGot7LujjpFQ5Mzz6bFM
0UTC Wednesdays Weekly
@kentpitman #climateCrisis
Breaking The Complexity Barrier (Again) (Again) vs #LLM #AI .
(+ Reliably #jailbreaking LLM AI)
Capitalization and lisp
Following Terry's lead, My #McCLIM, programs and the #racket people
Talkin' 'bout my generation #gopher
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape
"yo<RET>
:wave
#unix_surrealism
@hairylarry @nosrednayduj @mdhughes et al.!
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#programming #gamedev #lisp #devlog #lispgamejam the third for my birds eating insects eating plants experience https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/plant-sensors/ imagining the #automata #agent #Sensors .
Simple sensor input -> acceleration agents in a grid ideas.
I don't get what happened with that markdown table either.
I also add the #types for bird insect plant in my #softwareIndividuals KRF.
#gamejam forum post https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2025
LispUsers is a collection of user contributed software that has been shipping with Interlisp and later Medley since the 1970s. To load a LispUsers program evaluate (IL:FILESLOAD file) where `file` is the program name without extension. Most come with .pdf or .TEDIT documentation that explains how to run the program.
#lispyGopherClimate #valentinesDay Morning in Europe #peertube #live #programming #technology #podcast .
#archive https://toobnix.org/w/wzDqaQke9raTSTxVDHTemo
Oldschool versus newschool
#lisp #versus #CLOS in #commonLisp
(basically me monday morning quarterbacking myself from the Tuesday-night-in-the-americas hosted by Ramin)
I will at least try push-button running *this article* which factors into the long-delayed current log I am writing. https://screwlisp.small-web.org/software-individuals/sandewalls-sat-solver-implementation-example/ which feeds into the other topic.
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#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast hosted by @ramin_hal9001 https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html this week!
https://communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWFJ7NuDVCjkAv7fkX
My guess as to the topic from the main show toot which is
https://fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eba-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b <- visit
@kentpitman 's poem
Repudiating the #ai #llm hype!
And #environmental damage #climate
#commonLisp #lisp #typeTheory #coalton common lisp static typing DSL https://coalton-lang.github.io/ ,
#ELS 2025 talk by Robert Smith. Robert emailed a note.
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Published in 1987, "Xerox LOOPS, A Friendly Primer" is a concise tutorial to the LOOPS (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) object extension of Interlisp. Some chapters of this copy are in the wrong order but all the content is there.
You can use the Interlisp function SHOWGRAPH to display a graph of an S-exp laid out by LAYOUTSEXPR, as in this example of the syntax tree of a setence. More details in the documentation of the grapher library module of Medley:
#lispyGopherClimate #softwareEngineering #computerScience #lisp (every Wednesday 0UTC = Tuesday night in Americas)
#peertube #podcast #archive
https://communitymedia.video/w/gVRxvMKmdoAwHHJxrcJi5c
#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/
#commonLisp + #gnuplot
#McCLIM #hurkle #gameDev #retrospective so far
@amszmidt sets me straight about the #loopFacility yet again
@vnikolov points out we can read comp.lang.lisp
Join in in #lambdaMOO as always!
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#softwareEngineering #computerScience #programming #lisp #commonLisp #interview #macro #discussion with historical notes-
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/show/Vassil-Nikolov-Kent-Pitman-assertables-compilation-declare/
My quick notes on the downloadable interview discussion with @vnikolov and @kentpitman About Vassil's assertables classed toggleable assertion macro design.
Provokes lots of fascinating historical notes from Kent about what the ANSI CL and earlier standardisations were doing and had in mind.
On May 28, 2025 Eleanor Young will give the talk "The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System" at the 2025 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industry Summit (CCECE). She will discuss what other historical software recovery groups can learn from the Medley Interlisp Project.
#softwareEngineering #programming #commonLisp #assertions #algebra - tight, efficient #lazyEvaluation vector multiplication with #series .
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/programming/cl-series-vector-mult-assert-lisp-interactivity/
I use assert in lisp, which automatically generates an interactive in-context failure resolution which I utilize in the article, where the lazy cotruncation series feature was not wanted. Shows off a #lisp useage: classic.
@vnikolov what do you think of this example of assert viz your assertables?
+ @kentpitman
Play Static Games, Win Static Prizes https://screwlisp.small-web.org/programming/play-static-games-win-static-prizes/
#staticTyping #typechecking #staticProgramAnalysis #commonLisp #lisp #sbcl #series #acl2
In which I look at modern and to some extent historical static program analysis popularly used with common lisp #programming.
I accidentally make the really good point that even if #sbcl is not your deployment target, you can still use its static type checking, for which I work an example.
#lazyEvaluation and formal theorems are also included.
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#bookReview #psychology #neuroscience #automata #engineering #technology #bookstodon
my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/
I connect this to #lisp #programming for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with @ksaj about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.
If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.
#programming #softwareEngineering #commonLisp images as communicating #automata https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/resend%20resend%20resend.webm https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/eepitch-send/
Article with one minute video showing four lisp images chattering unattended.
There is no leader- they're just talking. However, they are using #emacs #slime #eepitch and sleeps so you can usefully watch them.
A precursor to next week's episode featuring @ksaj discussing breitenbergian vehicles etc.
Do you use a cluster of #lisp images?
#lispyGopherClimate #archive discussing #alife #gof_ai #ai with @ksaj and @shizamura
https://communitymedia.video/w/sg6Sa93LRkXfyuLJEaBMXf
Themed around Braitenberg's #Vehicles Thought experiment in #syntheticPsychology #bookstodon
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#lispyGopherClimate #interview #transcript #webDev #technology #computerHistory #lisp #commonlisp #harlequin #CLIM
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/show/kmp-lisp-web-testing/
Summary and transcript of the first eight minutes of the hour-long downloadable episode, including Kent's summary of his personal web work in lisp (mostly at Harlequin) through the 80s and 90s.
@vindarel @khinsen (being the missing guests)
@kentpitman @dougmerritt @mdhughes
I'm hand-transcribing and summarizing, so this is something like part 1/6.
#LispyGopherClimate #archived #technology #programming #lisp #commonLisp #softwareEngineering
https://communitymedia.video/w/2KKB3LF4cAmFrTzR5QL8wT
Today, #webDev #softwareTesting Sharpsign no mention of types.
#climateCrisis + #haiku by @kentpitman
Reverse interview with @vindarel and @khinsen (they will listen to us this episode and respond in their own time zones)
https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/
https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/#ciel-is-an-extended-lisp
https://web-apps-in-lisp.github.io/
My own #AMOP #Kitten #clelephant ~ https://screwlisp.small-web.org
, criticizing #clwho ?
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#kitten #smallweb #webdev #lisp #commonlisp #ecl
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/kitten/kittendb-from-common-lisp/
Kinda rushed, but I show the kitten server operator and kitten visitors interacting in real time (the kitten visitor by hitting a kitten page, the kitten server operator by reading and setting kittendb values in the kitten shell).
What do you think @mdhughes @aral
Obviously the kitten host will be robotic, but I thought this is a useful half-interaction to see.
#programming #engineering #systems I work sketching graphs of complex systems in canonical #lisp with #mcclim #emacs #eev .
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/complex-systems/
Back of envelope theories of complex systems, as always with my mostly relating to off-hand comments Winograd made in the first page of his Breaking The Complexity Barrier (Again) paper.
What do you think?
Main feature is bootstrapping making these graphs somewhat in terms of themselves metacircularly.
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#lispyGopherClimate #technology #emacs #writing #lisp #gopher #podcast #LIVE #archive
https://communitymedia.video/w/hTjTR5cwshdWP7DX3VqWjB
#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman
This week, DJ @damaru of the Evolution Revolution will talk, including about using emacs as a #writer.
I will share my #eev mode experience, and @eduardoochs should be in #emacsconf on IRC.
I'm going to mention incredible show artist @prahou with reference to gef's last episode.
https://analognowhere.com
https://archives.anonradio.net/202506241600_gef.mp3
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#oldComputerChallenge
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/occ/25/jul17.txt
In which I dig up my cryptic reference to rpg's ( #lisp )
The Structure of a Programming
Language
Revolution
's
reference to Teitelman's thesis on advice in the 60s, while already tired from writing my other article today.
#leonardoCalculus #Sandewall #programming #objectOriented #simulation #lisp #commonLisp
I feel like this article is one of those moments that is a monumental achievement for the writer themselves, but precedes adding glitzy picture making (which will eventually come too).
If you remember, I was recapitulating my somewhat failed #lispgamejam #gamedev . This time and in about half a week just now - I got the plant/insect/bird Breitenbergian Vehicle simulation workin'.
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/LCKR-completing-the-simulation/
