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barberpole··on Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437?
It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's request to buy a house.
barberpole··on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
how did this garbage wind up here?
barberpole··on Yggdrasil Network
I thought this was going to be about Yggdrasil. Why must every name in the world be destroyed by software labellers?
barberpole··on Category Theory Illustrated: Logic (2021)
> Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0]

The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because it is windowless. No quibbling, please.

barberpole··on Films about virtual reality
>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius

waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it's the SACRED GEOMETRY!"

barberpole··on The Rise and Fall of GOFAI
sure it did, the stuff around SOAR and John Anderson, production systems that aimed to model cognitive load, Case-based reasoning, etc.
barberpole··on The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered
He is remembered for laffs, but he was a very very compelling composer.
barberpole··on What is an emotion? William James’s theory of how our bodies affect our feelings
> Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain

This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.

barberpole··on A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (2009)
>Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language

this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.

barberpole··on A comment about Christian Queinnec's book Lisp in Small Pieces (1996)
Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.
barberpole··on Artists must be allowed to make bad work
> trial and error

There's a clip of John Cleese showing how Beethoven in fact composed the 5th symphony by trial and error.

barberpole··on Freud as Talmudist
Reading Freud, Wittgenstein said "now here is something new."
barberpole··on Detect ChatGPT Generated Content
It would seem to be checking sentence structure, and if "too complex" -- embedded clauses and such -- it follows a hard-wired rule to report AI.
barberpole··on News Music Search Archive
If it all sounds the same to you it's because it is.
barberpole··on The container orchestrator landscape
So it's not about canned orchestration?
barberpole··on My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020)
"Pick the right tool for the job" --- exit
barberpole··on Pianoplayer: Automatic fingering generator for piano scores
The left hand fingering of the example puts the thumb on a black key and trills fingers 4 and 5: not good.
barberpole··on Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
"Snakehead"
barberpole··on Artificial Intelligence completed Beethoven's unfinished Tenth Symphony
Harmonically and formally not as adventurous as the scherzo of Symphony #1.
barberpole··on Vivaldi 4.0
Vivaldi was a great musical genius.