asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the function of the 'extra' gates does not become clear unless you understand why extant cpus (which do not use muller's c-gate) need 'clocks' at all
asciilifeform: it lets you have asynchronous circuits without metastability problems
asciilifeform: (even though it is used virtually nowhere...)
asciilifeform: i regard c-gate as among the greatest inventions in 20th c. electronics
asciilifeform suggests actually understanding what adlai linked to
asciilifeform: y is, the more intelligent/productive you can be.'
asciilifeform: 'What’s the real difference between having a type signature in your short-term memory or prominently displayed in your second monitor? What’s the real difference between writing a comment in your mind or touch-typing it as fast as you create it? Just some speed. Just some time. And the more visible that type signature is, the faster you can type out that comment, the larger your ‘memory’ gets. And the larger your memor
asciilifeform: the original '7' thing was re: short-term memory and juggling arbitrary symbols as strings
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: likely thinking of a different 'store'
asciilifeform: i promised yesterday to say why i quit the ibm green phosphour terminal; this was why
asciilifeform: because one encounters sometimes more than 7 levels of nesting
asciilifeform: i've seen it trotted out as an argument that it is impossible to program in common lisp
asciilifeform: i think he was speaking of the 7 levels of stack thing
asciilifeform: when you teach the pets to reassemble kalash, will it be visually (tactile!) or verbally ?
asciilifeform: human languages as a class aren't even automatically unambiguous structurewise, and to hammer them into this shape results in the kind of verbiage that led people to invent 'squigglies' in the first place.
asciilifeform: or simply to the fact that straight line of alphabet yes, can unambiguously describe everything. but it takes titanic space for a large class of concepts
asciilifeform: to explain this in usable detail would take a while
asciilifeform: adlai: if you're curious, i quit the emulator when i realized that even the text output absolutely trivial on a dataflow machine cannot be rendered in real time on a von neumann box (simply attach dependency graph to each rectangle of video buffer ram)
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had an article re: same.
asciilifeform: the basic idea was known to the ancients as 'spoonfull of shit in a barrel of honey'
asciilifeform: adlai: but the original google video was censored
asciilifeform: adlai: it used to be a link to my site
asciilifeform: now all of this probably plays into mircea_popescu's thesis, because it turns out that the main use of graphical bitmaps in a 'symbolics' box or in my emacs is to better shovel text around
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no dice. spent as little time as did with box because a good chunk of it is replicated in my modern 'emacs' - with which i've made just about everything in my adult life
asciilifeform: or for that matter mathematical symbols. modern mathematics -began- when they switched from naked words to the occasional piece of graphical 'garbage'
asciilifeform: but pray tell what were the 'timewasters' on a 'symbolics' box ?
asciilifeform: i understand the appeal of 'this is the fucking army, you will paint the snow white until your fucking beg'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it forces people to think, and it simplifies the task of rooting out thoise who haven't << why not goose quill pen, then
asciilifeform: a la incas or east eur. / east asia circa ww2
asciilifeform: there is also colonization and industrial rendering for biodiesel.
asciilifeform: processing of homo redditicus by countereconomic 'hobbyist' sick fuck is only one possibility
