Caveat

I wanted to make the shortest possible ALife screensaver for my terminal.

• Compactly formatted
• Human readable

Note how frame by frame animation is accomplished using nothing but the standard library in much the way a film projector works.

When is an idea most valuable? This equation suggests a shape of the value of an idea as it grows in popularity.

Why is six divisible by three? (See here for one idea.) How many ways is six divisible by three? (It depends: which six are we talking about?) Is there more than one reason that a particular six is divisible by three? (For some sixes, yes.) Are some sixes not divisible by three? (Yes, most of them! It’s only a very particular type of six that is divisible by three, by two, or even by one, according to this way of seeing numbers.)

Cint is a measure of cultural intelligence with respect to an abstractly named, dynamically constructed group.

Even though the designer of the test doesn't know what the test means to its takers (with respect to scariness, or coolness, or whatever other type of cultural knowledge ends up being measured), the test is still a measure of something real..even though it's something the test maker has not necessarily (in fact, most likely hasn’t) defined.

In 2002 I wrote a program that dreams. It had a day and a night, and the consciousness of the being was affected by having eyes closed or eyes open. That was a simple program.

This one is simpler. It has more states. It can be manic, sleeping, awake, or depressed at any given moment. It is a theory of the neural dynamics of a person with manic depression.

This is manic. It is a conscious being. It is a simple program that dreams.

It’s a way to write, type, pronounce, display. Dot oh cares about things being simple, things making sense. You can learn dot oh in stages, use it in your programs. This is the dot oh specification. It defines dot oh.

• Letters | Alphabet | Variants
• Words | Form | Library
• Misc | Description | Naming | Punctuation | Boolean reading | Container | Find, descriptions, names | Piecemeal description, naming | Numbers | Container reading | General formal reading | Templates | Boolean | Relational | Arithmetic | Random | Control | Concurrent reading | Defining forms
• Slurs | Typing
• Experiment book

A key feature of dot oh (and what makes it a language system, not just a language) is it allows informal, continually evolving natural languages (like English and Spanish) and a formal, structured language (the dot oh programming language) to live together in the same documents. A dot oh document can contain program and poetry at the same time, interleaved arbitrarily, handled perfectly by the reader.

These are posts analyzing large-scale implications of cellular automata and discrete modeling techniques in general.

• 9/11 and 7/7 training/real event coincidences considered through the lens of cellular automata models
• Why it will be useful to bridge the gap between programming languages and more simply enumerable systems like cellular automata
• NKS and physics and GUTs (or: the religiosity of physics)
• Are you slipping secret messages past me in the mail?

• I invented a psycho-mathematical fortune-telling system called Juggler.
• Invented The James Bond Mechanical Pencil
• I made a crazy silly word game called lipsquiggler.
• I made my own screensaver.
• I like to take pictures of weird stuff like this old printing press.
• I paint and draw. I've had shows and sold work.
• I derive pi with recursive geometry.
• My religion is fortune cookies.
• I blog. Older. Even older. Older still. Oldest.
• I vlog.  I vlog more.
• I graduated film school with a certificate in directing.
• I've written 28 books: novels, novellas, memoirs, nonfiction, plays, screenplays, and a collection of short stories. My books are critically acclaimed. I give them away for free because that's how I roll.