2014
SoundCloud
I uploaded the result of cross-modulating my TipTop Audio Z-3000 Oscillator and Wiard Borg Filter to SoundCloud. Sharing is caring?
It's loud.
There's a short video of the patch on my previous post
Date created: 2014-01-04
Conversations with the computer
I've been thinking about the article by Steven Ramsay, The Mythical Man-Finger and The Mythical Man-Finger Aftermath since I read them a few weeks ago. It keeps resonating.
I remember being impressed by Dbase III+ , which allowed me to type stuff like
next 3 to print
I used to use fluency as my judge of competence-- a linguistic metaphor. At work some people talk to people, some of us can talk to the machines, and some to both. Generally people that talk to machines can also talk to people.
Do people always resent their translators? There's Lots of power there. I get mad when something prevents the conversation-- hardware stuff ups. Crap OS.
You can't delegate or make a pace for conversation, it's back and forth. It's because lots is unknown and only discovered during the conversation.
Maybe this is why I like vim? Even though there's still a lot of baby talk, it's on the right path.
Programming is like teaching the computer some new words. Indeed an early language, Forth, was conceived that way. Programmers would create the languages that allow them to have the sorts of conversations they wanted to have. Interactive systems were designed as sets of words.
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