Kay Lack

michael shrayer's ELECTRIC pencil, easy to learn, easy to use, word processing system. sick as hell giant pencil image

Python, like pretty much every year except for the odd Google Sheets day :) The puzzles themselves are hard enough for me!

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the red planet

The Simpsons Homer is slow YouTube video by Stephon M

working with the reasoning model like www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-wD...

Screencap: (too old to reply) 22 years ago

I was indeed thinking of ColorForth! I imagine Chuck Moore would recognise it as not ColorForth but instead a colorful Forth, but it's a nice opportunity to use colour to notate the way each word is processed. More to come of that. Thanks!

Thank you :) Really kind of you

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Introducing Forth poems YouTube video by Kay Lack

Hello! A little video about Forth. More to come ??
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4n...

my view so far -

forth is simple and beautiful. and, like all simple and beautiful things, the closer you look, the more you realise that it is in fact a tightly woven web of disturbing complexity

but that might just be me

deep in the forth mines with hacked together forth, in a hacked together virtual machine, running in a hacked together web-based forth IDE.

the next video approaches

Thanks for the kind words Jason :)

A screencap from a book which reads: Figure 4.5: Not quite right. Then a grid of 9 dots with lines joining them up. Then a section that says Tip: Use whole-brain thinking.

drop a reply here if you do! be cool to look at

A screenshot from "BBC Tomorrow's World" TV series where middle-aged man in pajamas is pressing keys on the teletype machine with one finger without even leaving his bed

This is me working from home btw

Oh I ALSO made this choose your own adventure story using an online clone of ed that I wrote using ed, in an online environment simulating computing of the time, even down to the sound. That was maybe unnecessary, but did it anyway. toys.0de5.net/ed60/cyo/

The little editor that could YouTube video by Kay Lack

Ed is the standard unix text editor. It's also strange. This is a video about ed, why it is the way it is, and an alternative vision of computing in the world that may just be coming back.

youtu.be/GoyNMFccbow

an exploded diagram titled 'answer-back mechanism remote actuation' with many parts including the 'blocking following level', 'contact wires', 'trip lever', 'stop bail', 'function pawl', and 'answer-back function lever'

a diagram of the 'answer-back drum' depicting five intelligence levels around a tined drum, with three extra levels for character suppression.

Fun and games generating DFAs from regular expressions YouTube video by Kay Lack

oh, and the last video! a bit of a grab bag on algorithms for converting regexes directly into DFAs, following up a loose thread on why Thompson's construction is sometimes known as the McNaughton-Yamada-Thompson construction... tldr it probably shouldn't! youtu.be/tAw9-nTCuzI

80s photo of Alfred Aho in his very... teal? office space, wearing a blue jumper under which shows the broad collar of a white shirt, in front of a million papers and a huge yellow computer terminal

can't believe i missed this vintage shot of 80s Alfred Aho for the last video... would have been so perfect!

Wikipedia says that comp sci professor Rao Kosaraju originated the saying "At some point, the learning stops and the pain begins." — what do you think it means?

A number of nice lines going between nice dots. labelled "Fig. 4. Transition diagram for the matrix given in Table IV."

i have discovered something very sly in the Unix ed.c

diagram of me trying to figure out a nice algorithm for reading lines into a line-oriented text editor

some code from the unix ed.c

every day i get up, i make another clone of ed the Standard Unix Text Editor, i do my burpees, and then i study Unix v7's ed.c to figure out how on earth it works.

feels like leetcode for trying to get a job at Bell Labs in 1975

assembly source code listing which has a section in the middle that reads "WITH APOLOGIES" and then seemingly a bunch of constants

lmao

thank you for saying that! i’m so glad. what did you learn? if you feel like sharing

hey!

In search of the perfect dynamic array growth factor YouTube video by Kay Lack

new video! there is actually no way to describe this topic in a way that sounds interesting so i'll just say it's about whether 1.5 or 2 is friendlier
youtu.be/GZPqDvG615k