I did have a nice half round of golf today with my wife. What a beautiful day to spend with such a wonderful person!

I'm out.

[PDF] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11413

I guess he was right about the engines.

IMO, while I really don't come to HN to find dial-a-joke, or joke-of-the-day, I think some humor is essential in modern life.

Since we're talking about Matt Keeter, you will find he has a great sense of humor if you read his website or interact with him. Some of his jokes are ROTFL funny, but subtle.

But seriously, Matt, I might have a project for an in-person event regarding printing robots. Stay tuned--to what channel I don't know.

Also noticed "Scungy Video" :) (Do NOT search for this term in your favorite search engine.)

He also said a big problem was the expense of doing a modern engine upgrade. Anyone know if they ever re-engined it? Was he joking again?

Having one of these fly over my apartment on Rock Rd. was a dish rattler--I used to see B-2s every once in a while too (fairly loud too, IIRC).

Textbooks:

Cephalopod Cognition by Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq (Editor), Ludovic Dickel (Editor), Jennifer Mather (Editor)

Cephalopod Behaviour 2nd Edition by Roger T. Hanlon (Author), John B. Messenger (Author)

Personal anecdotes:

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness Paperback by Sy Montgomery

Harry Harrison wrote a book I read many years ago called West of Eden, where the dinosaur extinction event didn't occur. An advanced species of lizard used modified lifeforms for their tech. I have it on my list to read again. It does make you think people might be more symbiotic towards the world rather than what we have now.

I do know there are a couple of websites for cephalopod enthusiasts:

https://zapatopi.net/cephnews/ https://tonmo.com/

Anyway, I think a fun cartoon would be the Flintstones with ceph, for example their screen could be a smaller ceph whose chromataphores are pixels.

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Old drawing, back of a napkin (apologies to MIT AI Memo 554):

https://github.com/koalahedron/ideas-for-models/blob/main/RE...

Try telling that to Isaac Newton. :)

Or better yet Edison or the USPTO.

Ha ha

He also did the TV typewriter:

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

which allowed people to have something to hook their bare board micro to.

I had money to buy his green book, but not the computer or the TV. :)

  270 A=INT(14\*RND(1))+2
  280 IF A<2 THEN 270
  290 IF A>14 THEN 270

I guess everybody is gone from this post too, but I wonder if there is a fixed point corollary to Godwin's law--if you post enough off topic comments, you reach the original topic again. :)

https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl

the efficiency of autodiff might be similar to that of an opcode anyway.

So, how did DEC do on the Alpha processor? I always heard good things about it--IIRC (I didn't) it was ~~based~~ to replace the VAX, but 64 bit. I learned PDP-11 assembler at RPI, during their college program for high school students in about 1984. We hand assembled code and really got to know the architecture.

https://github.com/koalahedron/lisp-computer-games

Man that brought back the memories, and I had a blast doing it. Many thanks to Jeff Atwood.

I'm afraid my DEC assembly language study ended at the PDP-11, but it is edifying to know the VAX had such an instruction.

In some domains like numerical programming, ML, and graphics using SDF having a Calc 102 operation like a gradient op might be considered useful enough to include in a RISC instruction set, and the RISC entry on Wikipedia says this about the RISC-V architecture:

> The ISA is designed to be extensible from a barebones core sufficient for a small embedded processor to supercomputer and cloud computing use with standard and chip designer defined extensions and coprocessors.

Maybe a derivative op belongs in a math coprocessor?

The KIM-1 had a 6502, the Elf had an 1802, and the ZX81 had a Z80 processor, all 8 bit processors which were approachable for beginners.