Zompist Bboard Again

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:20 am

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:02 am Was it not possible for another professor to take over?

As WeepingElf put it, "which was bound to fail anyway", so I suspect it wouldn't have worked out under another professor, either.

Indeed not. Essentially, I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the philosophical language - I thought a classification of concepts would be useful for information retrieval. But as I did research on the subject, I found that nothing on the matter had been published for about 20 years or more, suggesting that the idea had been abandoned by the relevant community of researchers, and another professor from another university whom I tried to win as a correferent (a second voice on the thesis) flatly declared to me that I "could not win a flowerpot" with such a classification. How badly I had erred became only clear to me when I read The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco (which should be mandatory reading for every conlanger!) a few years later, wherein the author discussed the baroque (and also Baroque - no pun intended!) schemes of Dalgarno and Wilkins, showing how unworkable they were - I immediately realized that I had made the same mistake!

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:49 am and another professor from another university whom I tried to win as a correferent (a second voice on the thesis) flatly declared to me that I "could not win a flowerpot" with such a classification.

Note to other readers: That is a translation of a common (or at least it used to be somewhat common) German turn of phrase.

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:52 am

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:49 am and another professor from another university whom I tried to win as a correferent (a second voice on the thesis) flatly declared to me that I "could not win a flowerpot" with such a classification.

Note to other readers: That is a translation of a common (or at least it used to be somewhat common) German turn of phrase.

Yes, keinen Blumentopf gewinnen können means 'cannot win anything'.

Over at the Other Place, Khemehekis exceeded 100’000 words in Kankonian.

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:54 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:52 am

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:49 am and another professor from another university whom I tried to win as a correferent (a second voice on the thesis) flatly declared to me that I "could not win a flowerpot" with such a classification.

Note to other readers: That is a translation of a common (or at least it used to be somewhat common) German turn of phrase.

Yes, keinen Blumentopf gewinnen können means 'cannot win anything'.

it overcomes the language barrier well...
plus, it's the pleasure of foreign languages ​​to have deliciously different idioms...

Social Security managed to ameliorate their IT meltdown from last week. I was able to drop in this morning and my new Social Security card with my double-barreled surname should be arriving shortly. After that, the DMV to update my driver’s license. (And then the myriad other places I have to update things…)

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:11 pm Social Security managed to ameliorate their IT meltdown from last week. I was able to drop in this morning and my new Social Security card with my double-barreled surname should be arriving shortly. After that, the DMV to update my driver’s license. (And then the myriad other places I have to update things…)

Congratulations and good luck with the rest!

I got PSRAM support working on the RP2350 in zeptoforth 1.8.0-alpha.6, so now if you are using a board with PSRAM such as the Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 you can enable it with init-psram ( psram-cs-pin -- ) and then get a block of memory from psram-base ( -- addr ) of psram-size ( -- bytes ) size to use, which will be larger than the SRAM on the RP2350 itself (e.g. the Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 comes with 8 MB of PSRAM while the RP2350 itself has 520 KB of SRAM).

Now zeptoforth with RP2350 support is officially at beta, with the release of zeptoforth 1.8.0-beta.0.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:58 pm Now zeptoforth with RP2350 support is officially at beta, with the release of zeptoforth 1.8.0-beta.0.

Fireworks!!!

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 2:58 pm Now zeptoforth with RP2350 support is officially at beta, with the release of zeptoforth 1.8.0-beta.0.

Awesome news! Well done.

And on that note... zeptoforth 1.8.0, the first non-pre-release release of zeptoforth with RP2350 support, is out!

We now have a vocalist!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:30 pm We now have a vocalist!

Congratulations!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:30 pm We now have a vocalist!

Nice!

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:48 pm

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:30 pm We now have a vocalist!

Congratulations!

More Congratulations!

From me, too!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:30 pm We now have a vocalist!

Congrats!

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:30 pm We now have a vocalist!

That’s great!!

I got Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri working on my mac and spent a happy 30mins remembering all the gorgeous details and bathing in the soundtrack. Hands down my fav game of all time, though not one I’ve played for 15ish years. I had been dreaming about it, oddly, which made me curious to find it. Thankfully it crashed before it ate my whole afternoon.

I got printing out single-precision floating-point numbers in (-)x(.y)e(-)z format working for my hardware single-precision floating-point support largely working (even though there are a few gotchas, like if the last whole digit is > 4 it is removed and a carry is calculated; I am going to see if I can implement a carry without removing the last whole digit). This is a biggie because printing floating-point numbers is, well, hard, and I ran into a lot of issues while trying to implement it.

Now, once I am done with this, I will be onto printing out single-precision floating-point numbers in (-)x(.y) format...