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I wonder if the Scholastic method of the Schoolmen would be useful with its argument and counter argument style.

I also remember the first version of Smalltalk from Digitalk that was character based and windowed. It was called Methods. I can’t seem to find any reference to it on the web now.

Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics by Benade is a great Dover book for those interested in musical instruments.

I always thought of what I learned in some philosophy class, that there are only two ways to generate a contradiction.

One way is to reason from a false premise, or as I would put it, something we think is true is not true.

The other way is to mix logical levels (“this sentence is false”).

I don’t think I ever encountered a bug from mixing logical levels, but the false premise was a common culprit.

It also frequently seen in images of the child Jesus.

I spent a number of years pounding out code on 327x terminals. They were built like tanks.

As an “enterprise” developer in the 80’s, we all had beepers to go along with our suits and ties. People often thought we must be doctors, but we were just corporate mainframe developers.

A great game to use a SpaceOb 360 with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb_360

I worked for a few banks starting in the 1980’s. It was all MVS. End user applications were created using CICS and IMS. What we used to call OLTP (online transaction processing).

I had Mu-Lisp for myfirst computer, an Osborne-1, that came with a copy of Eliza.

You may find the original here:

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/commonly-known-el...

Leica has a camera model out implementing this standard.

https://leicacamerausa.com/leica-m11-p-in-silver-chrome.html

They should add a section on the language of a ship’s lights at night.

I used to own a Sony PS-F5, a portable vertical linear turntable.

I have made many flutes out of pvc. Shakuhachi, bansuri, Ney, are all good to make in pvc. I have also made recorder style, using a shaped cedar plug on the mouth end.

The FRB moved the last of its major services off of the mainframe around 2017 I believe. It does use MQ as an interface.

After 9/11 everyone in the Fed working on the payments systems had to get National Security Clearance. These systems are considered critical national infrastructure. Exposing the source code will get you jail time.

The Fed has been using IBM MQ for connectivity for over 20 years for their outward facing services such as Fedwire and National Net Settlement.

As a contrast to those works, Summa Contra Gentiles by Aquinas would be a good follow up.

Then to pull both together try Christian-Islamic Preambles of Faith - An Exercise in Philosophy of Religion or Kalâm for Our Day Modeled after Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Books I-III by Joseph Kenny, OP.

https://www.crvp.org/publications/Series-IIA/IIA-10-Contents...

It hallucinates a sequence of tokens, and we hallucinate meaning.

I spent some time looking at Loglan, purchased some books and tapes, but never really made any progress with it. A Scientific American article got me interested, pre-internet days so finding a community to converse with was not easy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan

I did commercial team Smalltalk development using the Digitalk toolset, for a team of around 16 people.

You start with a base development image, loaded with the toolset and frameworks for the project. No one modifies this image.

You share the app code through a source control tool. We used Team/V. Start up the project base image, open the repository browser, load the project packages. Make changes, commit source back to the repository. No saving of the image for development.

So shared, but never changed base image for the project, and app code sharing through the source control repository.

Are the “chippers” autonomous? After creating one do you just sit back and wait for it to chirp?

>> The next major leap in LLMs (in the next year) is probably going to be the prompt context size. Right now we have 2k, 4k, 8k ... but OpenAI also has a 32k model that they're not really giving access to unfortunately.

Saw this article today about a different approach that opens up orders of magnitude larger contexts

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-07-hyena

Parallel Sysplex with 32 mainframes in a cluster.

I also found it lacking when asking for chord variations and inversions on guitar (gpt-4)

My first car was a used 1976 MGB. Some models came with an electric overdrive, mine didn’t but it still had the switch in one of the steering wheel stalks. A friend showed me how to switch some wires around so the unused switch would control the fuel pump. That was the extent of my theft protection, with the loose rag top there was no point even locking the doors.

I don’t think this is what you are looking for, but there are many IOS shortcuts that front end the OpenAI api with Siri, using Siri for voice input and output. You can even ask ChatGPT how to create a shortcut like that.

A little late but here is the full paper, with longer explanations

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12173.pdf