Once upon a time, I spent multiple months implementing a graphing calculator using GW-BASIC (manual). Would I be able to do the same more quickly and effectively today using generative AI? ❦❦❦ Let’s give it a go, using Claude AI to start: Implement a simple graphing calculator in GW …| dr knz @ work
Abstract In the Bubbline project we are trying to build readline-like semantics on top of Charm’s Bubbletea. As of Bubbletea v0.23, we discovered this is currently impossible to do in a way that preserves input continuity reliably across readline invocations. This result is general. Any Bubbletea-based program or …| dr knz @ work
In any comparative discussion about programming languages, the probability that the conversation will mention Brainfuck or INTERCAL approaches 1 over time. (Based on years of empirical evidence as a scientist, programmer and unix hacker.)| dr knz @ work
Twelve years ago, at my first job at a University, my supervisor told my colleague and I: “I am writing a book about finite state automata. I want an interactive tool to show people what I’m doing.” So my colleague and I built Vaucanson. During that project I discovered …| dr knz @ work
Ivan Godard from Out-of-the-Box Computing is currently touring the US talking about his Mill CPU architecture, based on a new machine model called the “Belt”. I just finished watching the 2nd talk on the machine model and its realization in the processor’s micro-architecture. OotB’s contribution is a machine …| dr knz @ work
Hillel proposed on Twitter today: “Expressiveness” is how easily we can ‘do’ things in a system. “Tractability” is how easily we can assert properties on things we ‘do’. F.ex DFAs are tractable, Turing machines are expressive. The expressiveness vs tractability tradeoff is one of the most fundamental in CS …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3-2021.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note After a lively discussion on Hacker News and input from Russ Cox, the conclusions in the analysis below were reworded to avoid the notion of “non-useful bytes”. The …| dr knz @ work