ecsd

ecsd, 9 months ago

@ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic

When I was working on my Master's project, I ate bags and bags of peanut M&Ms and lost weight anyway.

ecsd, 9 months ago

@AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic

Computer Science. The project was to write a compiler for Lambda Calculus.

Actually, I think mere reading, of anything that requires thought, will do it. I notice after some days of reading my guts out, my verbal acuity markedly improves.

The mind (brain?) is very much like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

ecsd, 9 months ago

@hosford42 @AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic

{laughs} I never wrote it. Since it's a common enough application {believe it or not}, others would have written dozens of variations.

P.s.: if you think it sounds 'glamorous', there is already a well-known language that does it: LISP. Common Lisp, dude.

See also the game "Wff'n'Proof", "wff" = "well-formed formula". Lambda Calculus is fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFF_%27N_PROOF

ecsd, 9 months ago

@hosford42 @AKMA @ScruffyDux @actuallyautistic

{laughs} yes. call LC and Lisp "kissing cousins."

ecsd, 9 months ago

@rabbit_fighter @bookstodon

Rudy Rucker. You might review the various works for suitability for age, but on balance they should be nontoxic fun.

Philip K. Dick, complete short stories. Other works too (of course.)

Who else? Mind blanks.
No, Arthur C. Clarke, the NOVEL 2001: A Space Odyssey. That'll be an epsilon advanced, but only an epsilon.

Greg Bear
Orson Scott Card

Veronica Roth's "Divergent" series, if only to show him how gratuitously Hollywood mangles plots for profit. That's not quite Sci-fi, it's a dystopia, but dystopias are also a thread.

If he's old enough: BRAVE NEW WORLD, and then 1984. {laughs} Show him stuff school is by now too afraid to.

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ecsd, 9 months ago

@rabbit_fighter @bookstodon

By the way:

ecsd, 10 months ago

@AstroKatie

I have an inbuilt aversion to "signing up" for something I've never seen. As an ISP I'm sensitive to email-address harvesting operations. See how substack does it. There, you either do or don't require subscription for a first view.

One usually hands out free samples and /then/ jacks the hooked user up. 😆

Yeah, I wanted to hear what you had to say about those muons.

ecsd, 10 months ago

@kitoconnell @stevanzetti @TexasObserver @bookstodon

Made in response to this:

ecsd, 10 months ago

@kitoconnell @stevanzetti @TexasObserver @bookstodon

As I understand it, we're in the context of a group pushing books endorsing Christian Nationalism. They're Fascists. They're Not Christians; the religion does not endorse their stances or actions. The symbols stand for things not substitutable for the other; presumbly, these concepts are opposed.

Now, is the statement "true"? Technically, no, a person could just be fatally deluded. But this is Propaganda: it is Art and therefore it can be anything I want people to appreciate, and I made it for those who appreciate it. May everybody nirvana and happy happy joy joy. May it kick ass on some coordinate on the Astral Plane.

{twirls his Dali mustache.}