Michael Will 🍁
@scidata.ca
computation from first principles 0101
FORTH PROLOG GOFAI RISC-V HPC Spaceflight Astronomy
Zebrafish SciFi CitSci Archaeology Anthropology Psychohistory
Website: www.scidata.ca
Discussion: worthdefending.blogspot.com
GOFAI Forum: gofai.discourse.group
FORTH PROLOG GOFAI RISC-V HPC Spaceflight Astronomy
Zebrafish SciFi CitSci Archaeology Anthropology Psychohistory
Website: www.scidata.ca
Discussion: worthdefending.blogspot.com
GOFAI Forum: gofai.discourse.group
I tried something similar with my Mustang. The machinery was ok, but the cellular connection was crap. Plus it used up all the space in the back seat. Inconvenient.
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I tried something similar with my Mustang. The machinery was ok, but the cellular connection was crap. Plus it used up all the space in the back seat. Inconvenient.
Best exchange from "Joe vs the Volcano"
Joe: I quit
Mr. Waturi: Don't come looking for a recommendation
Joe: Ok, I won't
Joe: I quit
Mr. Waturi: Don't come looking for a recommendation
Joe: Ok, I won't
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Best exchange from "Joe vs the Volcano"
Joe: I quit
Mr. Waturi: Don't come looking for a recommendation
Joe: Ok, I won't
Joe: I quit
Mr. Waturi: Don't come looking for a recommendation
Joe: Ok, I won't
Putting a positive spin on it, maybe that watch saved you from a broken wrist.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Putting a positive spin on it, maybe that watch saved you from a broken wrist.
35 years ago, I designed a parallel-in to serial-out device for the industrial monitoring market. It used a shift register and software. High hopes, zero sales. Well, one, but that's almost worse because it forced me to do a lot of documentation and support gratis.
I can offer appreciation only.
I can offer appreciation only.
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
35 years ago, I designed a parallel-in to serial-out device for the industrial monitoring market. It used a shift register and software. High hopes, zero sales. Well, one, but that's almost worse because it forced me to do a lot of documentation and support gratis.
I can offer appreciation only.
I can offer appreciation only.
Every 50 years, car manufacturers switch from button start to turn-key start or vice versa. The ads proudly exclaim what an innovation the new method is. And music media, and cameras, and clothing. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, but that's hard to sell profitably.
#Fashion #Trends
#Fashion #Trends
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Vive la France
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiK4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiK4...
Mathématiques Modernes - " disco rough ( ivan smagghe edit ) " ( synth-wave france 1980 )
YouTube video by Js LERNON
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December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Vive la France
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiK4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiK4...
You can have all our snow, but you'll have to pay for the shipping. We're still a bit disgruntled about the Blue Jays.
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You can have all our snow, but you'll have to pay for the shipping. We're still a bit disgruntled about the Blue Jays.
Always ask yourself, What would Newton do?
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Always ask yourself, What would Newton do?
C'est magnifique
Takes me right back. I was into French new wave synthpop at one point.
Takes me right back. I was into French new wave synthpop at one point.
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
C'est magnifique
Takes me right back. I was into French new wave synthpop at one point.
Takes me right back. I was into French new wave synthpop at one point.
This is what happens in an age where first principles have been entirely abandoned. Runaway abstraction, as if the entire population has become String Theorists.
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
- Søren Kierkegaard
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
- Søren Kierkegaard
November 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is what happens in an age where first principles have been entirely abandoned. Runaway abstraction, as if the entire population has become String Theorists.
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
- Søren Kierkegaard
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
- Søren Kierkegaard
Cory Doctorow talks of 'enshittification'. I'm starting to use 'ensloppification' - more polite.
#GOFAI #CanadianAI
#GOFAI #CanadianAI
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Cory Doctorow talks of 'enshittification'. I'm starting to use 'ensloppification' - more polite.
#GOFAI #CanadianAI
#GOFAI #CanadianAI
I can almost hear the Elvis Costello. That was my coding mood music.
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I can almost hear the Elvis Costello. That was my coding mood music.
Lovely. Sometimes you have to go far away to find your way home. The spirit of America is alive and well in far flung places.
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Lovely. Sometimes you have to go far away to find your way home. The spirit of America is alive and well in far flung places.
Does anyone really need anything more than a 386SX and Windows 3.0? It all just turned into a vicious feedback loop of more power > more bells & whistles > more power. And 40 years of zombified sifting of eye candy.
#Forth #ComputationalThinking #GOFAI
#Forth #ComputationalThinking #GOFAI
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Does anyone really need anything more than a 386SX and Windows 3.0? It all just turned into a vicious feedback loop of more power > more bells & whistles > more power. And 40 years of zombified sifting of eye candy.
#Forth #ComputationalThinking #GOFAI
#Forth #ComputationalThinking #GOFAI
“Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?”
- Michael Faraday
- Michael Faraday
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?”
- Michael Faraday
- Michael Faraday
I hope they're smart homes (ie efficient, sustainable). And no, I'm not in that business.
#GOFAI #ComputationalThinking
#GOFAI #ComputationalThinking
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I hope they're smart homes (ie efficient, sustainable). And no, I'm not in that business.
#GOFAI #ComputationalThinking
#GOFAI #ComputationalThinking
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Always remember, the human brain models the universe in real time, with advanced communication and sensors, almost unlimited learning capacity, and true intelligence
- and uses 25W.
- and uses 25W.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Always remember, the human brain models the universe in real time, with advanced communication and sensors, almost unlimited learning capacity, and true intelligence
- and uses 25W.
- and uses 25W.
Do not send to know for whom the bell tolls
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Do not send to know for whom the bell tolls
I ran a #CitizenScience team from 2008-2018 that used GPUs, mainly to sift thru Arecibo data looking for pulsars and other astro & bio searches. We got squeezed out of the game during the insane crypto age. Nobody on our team could afford Maxwell GPUs. Now it's data centers. Greed won't stop GRBs.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I ran a #CitizenScience team from 2008-2018 that used GPUs, mainly to sift thru Arecibo data looking for pulsars and other astro & bio searches. We got squeezed out of the game during the insane crypto age. Nobody on our team could afford Maxwell GPUs. Now it's data centers. Greed won't stop GRBs.
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
You know, I really wish they'd worked a wee flash of #Forth into the movie CONTACT (1997). It would only have req'd a brief screen glimpse during the Vega primes signal detection scene. Would have been dead brilliant and a great tip-of-the-hat to Chuck Moore. Would have made the movie immortal.
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
You know, I really wish they'd worked a wee flash of #Forth into the movie CONTACT (1997). It would only have req'd a brief screen glimpse during the Vega primes signal detection scene. Would have been dead brilliant and a great tip-of-the-hat to Chuck Moore. Would have made the movie immortal.