perhaps the better metaphor for infinite canvases is “floors”, rather than “desks”
while the desk is contained and focused, the floor is spread and chaotic (more so than the desk)
it gives space for spill-over, and supplements the space the desk affords
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Interesting case. Retweeting in the hope of teaching the algorithm.
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Apparently, my suppression-by-algorithm may have something to do with the type of content I post: it's not polemical, it doesn't ask questions, and it rarely includes topical terms.
There's enough polemic on Twitter, but I'll see what I can do about upping the other two...
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I'm usually careful to keep this account focused on professional matters, and I wish others would do likewise. But, if you're a foodie, you might follow which is new account dedicated to my family's culinary exploits.
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Happy Birthday to Doug Engelbart (1925-2013) aka Father of the Mouse and the Mother of All Demos. Watch his message for the future - his 'big idea worth spreading' - now more pressing than ever dougengelbart.org/Academy
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In case you missed it, there are now 2 updates to my original post this morning
tagide.com/education/the-
Either a sufficiently large language model trained to understand natural language is really capable of developing symbolic reasoning by itself, or OpenAI is playing tricks
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If you thought yesterday's conversation was incredible, you have to read today's conversation... this is a revolution!
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Breaking my exile from Twitter for posting this PSA. This is nuclear-level disruption all over computer science
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I wrote a new blog post: Don't Serf the Internet. bit.ly/3iGMp36
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Laurie takes the trouble to overwhelmingly demonstrate that there's no such thing as "an interpreted language" or "a compiled language"
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New blog: Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato tratt.net/laurie/blog/20
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Just put back the code for the first prototype of Ozymandias, a computational notebook based on Ampleforth. All of 80 lines of code. A long way from prime time. , if you're still out there, I would like to chat with you!
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Carl Hewitt has died [pdf] via /r/hackernews
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And darn it, turns out a couple of minutes of the demo are missing from the video. Hopefully fixable.
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Recording of my keynote at Smalltalks22 is now online:
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The paper we presented at the PX/22 (many many months ago) is finally official. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35 The author copy is available at: tinlizzie.org/IADocs/live-pr
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youtu.be/MkMo8VsyBk4
Gilad & Newspeak live preso, the problem with inheritance, The expression problem, Multiple dispatch,
Newspeak demo, Hot Reload (RR[7]), vs Jupyter notebook, State of Newspeak, Interactivity vs performance, reflections
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Very humbled to accept a distinguished paper award at . Thank you very much to the program committee and chairs! (They told me I got the one with the actual ink on it, not the photocopy, what an honor!)
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Coffee Compiler Club tomorrow morning, 12/2/2022. 10am PDT. CCC is open to all compiler (and language design and implementation) lovers. Ask via private msg for invite. Special guest Gilad Bracha.
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Delighted to release the third edition of Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (PLAI). A complete rewrite based on many years of research and experience. Because that research is still ramping up, this is just the start of many changes.
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set.win.tue.nl/nl-fp-day-2023/
I attended the first one of this series. Young grasshoppers, you should know that functional programming has been in the "promising" category since before many of you were born and probably will be until your own grandchildren are born as well.
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Announcing a free new product, Metaverse Web Showcase:
croquet.io/webshowcase/
With Web Showcase, you can embed a custom, interactive, multi-user Metaverse world within your existing website in 15 minutes without programming knowledge.
#OpenMetaverse
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Our DLS’22 Most Notable Paper Award goes to:
Self-Optimizing AST Interpreters
by Doug Simon, Christian Wimmer
Congratulations!
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The videos for the 2022 FAST Workshop are now online in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=
Go check them out, and remember you can learn more about the papers here: figma.com/proto/jSov3sYG
#Smalltalks2022
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Amazing work
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Just presented Ampleforth at the Live22 workshop at SPLASH. Pre-recorded version is at youtu.be/gfbzC_90fJE . Actual talk should show up eventually.
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Just presented Ampleforth at the Live22 workshop at SPLASH. Pre-recorded version is at youtu.be/gfbzC_90fJE . Actual talk should show up eventually.
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Smalltalk has a remarkable method named #become: that allows you to modify all pointers to a given object to point to a different object!
gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/07/miracl
This goes even further than updating instances when a class changes, it's changing instance references.
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4/ Our Bayesian Modeling language beanmachine.org is used in production for several real use cases.
You can speculate a lot about why Probability was axed, but it was not because of lack of impact and visibility.
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Las Sunday night I got to watch "Real Genius" (1985) for the first time. I couldn't help myself immediately spotting a book that was new around then and now it's a collectible.
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I'm going to be giving a talk (virtually) at the University of Kent on Nov 21 about Virgil. It's the first public talk I've given about Virgil in quite some time.
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Tomorrow we'll do short zoom presentations on the #Smalltalks2022 papers. You can read the papers right now. Schedule and links at
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I've converted my long thread of curated classic HCI demo videos into a mini-site with authentic period styling. :)
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