A venerable tradition
An afternoon at altitude , chill'n fill'n the chairs
*** just | 20210728 20210807
2_i Daysdif | 10 days til ***
MidSummer
Saturday August 7
28124 Highway 67 , Woodland Park Colorado 80863
& evening warmed by a fire inside or out , with potables &
edibles
RSVP appreciated .
Let me know if interested in an intro to CoSy
the Friday evening before if you are staying in the area Previous
Party invite
| BobA | 20210630.1734 |
#4th.CoSy#Top | Note , the whole
of this blogPost , it's mailing list , and all of the CoSy website is created by just me , Bob
Armstrong , using CoSy
Describing the apparent primitiveness of the design of CoSy to an extremely bright guy , I noted that its goal is to be intelligent paper . What you get , most fundamentally , is windows of note paper . With a few function keys defined :
F1 Help
F5 Insert res at cursor
F6 CoSy evaluate | requires result to be CoSy object ( list ) or empty stack . save everything first .
sF6 Eval line under cursor in raw Forth
cF9 { textwdo @ selected-text? www } | open URL in ` BROWSER
F11 Insert timestamp ( |hm| ) at cursor . save everything first . sF11 Insert timestamp ( yyyymmdd.hhmm ) at cursor
F12 Insert date line ( dayln ) at cursor
cS saveText
|/\| KeyHelp |/\ |
There is no separate calendar
. But , a couple of keys allow you to make calendar lines and insert
timestamps in any work you are doing . And since everything is text , it is all simply searchable for any fragment you may remember .
& CoSy is my SlideRule . But , of course , incommensurably more capable .
It
is only possible to have such an immediate environment in a language
which is focused on the creation of words which work together in simple sentences -- rather than ` programs . That pretty much narrows the field down to APLs and Forth , and their melding , CoSy .
My current bathtub reading is Leo Brodie's Thinking
Forth which is a classic in the Forth community . Brodie's Starting Forth , is one of the greatest introductions to a technical subject -- in any subject .
The Limits of
Level Thinking Most of us are guilty of
over-emphasizing the difference between “high-level” and “low-level.”This notion is an arbitrary one.It limits our ability to think clearly about software problems. “Level”thinking,inthetraditionalsense,distortsoureffortsinthree ways: 1.It implies that the order of development
should follow a hierarchical struc- ture 2.It implies that levels should be
segregated from each other, prohibiting the benefits of reusability 3.It fosters syntactical differences
between levels (e.g., assembler vs.“high- level” languages) and a belief that the
nature of programming somehow changes as we move further from machine
code. Let’s examine each of these
misconceptions one by one.
Very true .
Once you have vocabulary , whether it concerns voxel maps on a sphere ,
or flipping some hardware register , ` level recedes into the
definitions .
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I found I had not just met him when he came over to engage the several of us who had some
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| 1659 | Amy Mitchell ; 719-...-.... Van Jones @ Colorado College | 2213 |
1st hour , contentless feel good stories . then "baking the planet" .
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| 0841 | | got email out to Van Jones | 1609 |
Subject:
I took your invitation to come in and listen to your talk at CC last night
Date:
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:57 -0700
From:
Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
To:
Van Jones <vjones@americanprogress.org>
Van ,
I'm the guy with 23 years more life stories than you who was
carrying the primary school science fact :
CO2 + = LIFE H2O
If I have occasion to use it again , I need to add a little 5800k
sun .
Certainly I and others out there were impressed by your direct
intercourse and display of a sense of respect which you further
impressed me with your consistency in your speech . You have a
future as an international lawyer .
The Political Science prof who introduced you triggered
thoughts of the late David
Nolan . I consider his unfolding of political
space along the libertarian-authoritarian dimension
and his founding of the Libertarian Party the first indication of
that there may actually be some real science in the field . David
was poliSci , MIT 1966 .
| 20110304.1146 | Just been
reading the Independent article on you to find out
what the row about you was all about . Guess you've learned
some of your diplomacy recently . |
It's this individual market choice versus state force
dimension on which we are philosophically opposed . Your argument
that you and your political cronies are so superior in wisdom and
charity to the markets of free individuals optimizing the welfare
of their families that you must invoke the guns and prisons of the
State to distort those markets would be more persuasive
if you were not dead wrong , and therefore anti-life , in
your attempt to criminalize the very building block of life . You
clearly have a LOT invested in this stupidity , which the
intelligence of the internet ( along with the refusal of the
planet to "bake" ) is tearing down as surely as it is tyrants
around the world . Below , I present some of the most basic
science . I got diverted into spending a painfully expensive
amount of time over the last few years on this issue because of
the pathetic understanding of the most basic physics on both sides
of the debate .
But the other flaw in your analysis , which you should care about
if the welfare of your progeny ( for which I envy you ) is your
true concern , is what I would label the FDR fallacy : Creating
jobs DOES NOT create wealth . Product per population does .
Your comparison of coal jobs versus "green" jobs itself
demonstrates this truth . The 80,000 or whatever coal jobs produce
, what , 25% of the country's total kilowatt hours . How many
kilowatt hours do those 80,000 "green" jobs produce ? 1% maybe .
Those "greens" would be freezing in the dark if they had to rely
on their own product .
Our living standards improve only as technology reduces the number
of human hours it takes to produce a particular desired product .
If this were not true , we might as well have stayed happy
breaking our backs with 40 acres and a mule .
However , increasing productivity , the only path to increased
welfare , does create dislocations with people surplus to the
product<>money flows . One solution would be that everybody
could relax a little more spreading the work around . But the
Government has been pretty effective at piling up regulations and
paper work sufficient to keep the average citizen trotting a
treadmill . The economy is recovering only now that the Government
seems to have been reined in at least a little .
Well , I hope this is falling on honest , not deaf ears . I have
my doubts .
I reserve the right to post
all communications
I receive or generate to CoSy website for further reflection
.
--
Some Science
If you are truly green , if you are honestly
facing that question of maximizing our and our children's and our
children's children's welfare , rather than a huckster seeking
control over personal slivers of the governments guns prisons
and taken money flows , then this living graph must moderate your
language with respect to the life gas a bit of which we
are restoring to the biosphere .
| 20110304 | The best graph I've seen
showing most of the relevant spectra other than our
surface . That CO2
already has little more ability to effect our
temperature is shown by
the fact that its peaks are already absorbing 100% .
--
BTW : I've been to New Haven for an APL conference some years
ago , and even in my short stay felt it was one of the most
socially segregated places I've ever visited .
If you happen to be out here in August , I'm having my MidSummer
Party Saturday the 6th .
~ 50% of your ` mummy
weight is carbon
from CO2 married to H2O by all the Green around you .
Below are the scrollable timestamped textfrom
my http://cosy.com/y21/blog.csy Job .
They have been have been enhanced by waking up the URLs so they click directly to their link .
All the ` dayline dates have also been ` anchored so any particular date can be referenced directly , eg: http://cosy.com/y21/Blog60days.html#20210711 .
The couple of paragraphs of CoSy to add the HTML to text are below . They are just sitting in the ` state window in the blog.csy Job as I worked the process out , and I just F6 , execute , thru them watching that each step is working as expected . I often do this with such things as transforming bank .csv files to CoSy ledger lists ( columnar DB structures ) .
If I pulled these together into a couple of words , they would be among the longest of any in all of CoSy .
I challenge anyone to show these transformations in any other language . I expect only APLs , including J and K to be competitive .
This working thru of problems is a deep motivation for CoSy .
t0 s" | ======================== | " conn >t1> | indices of all the Daylns |
t0 t1 at >t2> { ` , prt>f "bl prt<f } 'm >t3> | suck out the dates
t3 s/" <a name=\"" ` "></a>
,L ' braket 'L >t3> | add HTML for anchor
t3 t2 ' cL 'd t0 t1 at! | insert those line back into original
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