essays and ideas from Eliza Sarobhasa
Turkle also explores the psychological and societal impact of such “relational artifacts” as sociable robots, and how these and other technologies are changing attitudes about human life and concepts about what it means for something to be alive.
“…A perfected bodyguard, whose only form of communication was literacy in body language, and whose sole instinct was for hand-to-hand combat. ”
via Lady Shiva – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Common Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. It supports a combination of procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms.
Common Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. It supports a combination of procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms.
via Common Lisp – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express?
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Developer James Coglan has created Fargo, a small experimental programming language for a asynchronous systems in JavaScript. It works in both Node.js and in browsers. Fargo is a modified version of Scheme, a dialect of LISP.
via Fargo: A Scheme-like Programming Langauge That Runs on Node.js.
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mitcho is a PhD student in Linguistics at MIT with primary interests in formal syntax / semantics.
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