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Dave Rahardja<p>Guy’s Hospital in London features an art installation by Tim Hunkin.</p><p>It’s uh…creepy.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/creepy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creepy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/uncannyValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uncannyValley</span></a> </p><p>Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DLnNmrdopT7</p>
vy<p>Von Neumann points out that automata are essentially an alternative formalization of constructive logic. (Probabilistic Logics, in Shannon/McCarthy Automata.).<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a></p>
screwlisp<p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookReview</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <br>my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology<br><a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/comple</span><span class="invisible">x/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/</span></a></p><p>I connect this to <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ksaj</span></a></span> about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.</p><p>If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.</p>
Rob Ives<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEAMjunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEAMjunk</span></a> Parasol. A bead and wire project to download and make! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.robives.com/project/parasol/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">robives.com/project/parasol/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
screwlisp<p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/softwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/commonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonLisp</span></a> images as communicating <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/resend%20resend%20resend.webm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/comple</span><span class="invisible">x/resend%20resend%20resend.webm</span></a> <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/eepitch-send/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/comple</span><span class="invisible">x/eepitch-send/</span></a></p><p>Article with one minute video showing four lisp images chattering unattended.</p><p>There is no leader- they're just talking. However, they are using <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/slime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slime</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/eepitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eepitch</span></a> and sleeps so you can usefully watch them.</p><p>A precursor to next week's episode featuring <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ksaj</span></a></span> discussing breitenbergian vehicles etc.</p><p>Do you use a cluster of <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> images?</p>
vy<p>I'm working on a paper which I need to distinguish recognizers (automata that have a binary output accept./reject) from Moore and Mealy machines. I started to write "recognizers have binary output and more general automata are non-binary", and then wondered if our KnowNothing Federal government would retaliate against the journal. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dontobeyinadvance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dontobeyinadvance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a></p>
screwlisp<p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/vehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vehicles</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <br>so it strikes me that in my Bob-Albrecht's-Hurkle implementation so far <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/itching-for-hurkles/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/lispga</span><span class="invisible">mes/itching-for-hurkles/</span></a></p><p>the way I did "what-direction-is-the-hurkle-in?" is a reasonable model for Breitenbergian sensors <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ksaj</span></a></span> . </p><p>Just instead of saying "what direction is the Hurkle in" maybe "is there a Hurkle in this direction" (and then accelerate towards or away from it by my particular itch)</p><p>Breitenberg's Vehicles was a jumble-of-finitely-many automata indicative model of human minds.</p>
vintage screwlisp account<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/devlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devlog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lispgamejam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lispgamejam</span></a> the third for my birds eating insects eating plants experience <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/plant-sensors/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/lispga</span><span class="invisible">mes/plant-sensors/</span></a> imagining the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/agent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Sensors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sensors</span></a> .<br>Simple sensor input -&gt; acceleration agents in a grid ideas.</p><p>I don't get what happened with that markdown table either.</p><p>I also add the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/types" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>types</span></a> for bird insect plant in my <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/softwareIndividuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareIndividuals</span></a> KRF.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/gamejam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamejam</span></a> forum post <a href="https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-j</span><span class="invisible">am-2025</span></a></p>
vintage screwlisp account<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lispGameJam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lispGameJam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/devlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devlog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/whats-the-plan/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/lispga</span><span class="invisible">mes/whats-the-plan/</span></a> number one.</p><p>Proposing a Braitenbergian Vehicles <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> world of plants that spread, insects (that eat plants) and birds (that eat insects and sleep in plants).</p><p>Shoehorn in a player by just dropping them in and saying they also need to eat.</p><p>What is everyone else doing?</p><p>I basically just have tomorrow</p><p>cc <span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ksaj</span></a></span> , namedropped</p>
Rob Ives<p>Rise of the Mammals. The cover project from my new book "Making Paper Automata" The project comes as a pdf ready to print out onto thin card. Find out more here <a href="https://www.robives.com/project/rotm/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">robives.com/project/rotm/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaur</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Thank you for the overwhelming response to the mechanical gift box! Here’s all the build videos &amp; the final reveal/marriage proposal in one video:</p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNlsrIdMFo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNlsrId</span><span class="invisible">MFo</span></a></p><p>It’s been a journey 🖤 now on to the next adventure </p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodcarving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodcarving</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/mechanical_engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mechanical_engineering</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Okay here’s the final reveal of the ten-month mechanical Gift Box build. </p><p>Deliriously happy to shout from the rooftops that my partner Robin is the most extraordinary person I’ve ever known, and I want to marry her more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Ninth part of the ten-month Gift Box build 🦊❤️🦦🎁 </p><p>Final glue-up, trim, engraving and other finishing touches. Next video will be of the finished piece!</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Eighth part of the ten-month Gift Box build 🦊❤️🦦🎁 </p><p>Assembly and dry fit, and first test of all the mechanisms together. Absolutely hair-raising not knowing if it would work or not </p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Seventh part of the ten-month mechanical Gift Box build 🦊❤️🦦🎁 </p><p>The flower petals at the top are working, miraculously, and I finally get a worthy idea for the sides of the finished box </p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Sixth part of the ten-month Gift Box build 🦊❤️🦦🎁 </p><p>Top half taking form, bottom half taking form, and shaping the flower petals</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Fifth part of the ten-month Gift Box build</p><p>Mechanical problem solving, hauling out the drill press, and ✨tada the music box works✨ </p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Fourth part of the ten-month Gift Box build</p><p>Chiseling, hammering, and figuring out the clockwork elements. Really getting in over my head at this point</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Third part of the ten-month Gift Box build</p><p>Fun with sparks, chiseling, and the beginnings of the clockwork elements</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>
Jesse Holden 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴<p>Second part of the ten-month Gift Box build</p><p>Solved the most complicated engineering part of the build here with the two clutched gears driving the sector gear</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automata</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodworking</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/clockwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clockwork</span></a></p>