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graydon / bel-eve-vr.md
Created January 27, 2020 23:06 — forked from wtaysom/bel-eve-vr.md
A Review of Paul Graham's Bel, Chris Granger's Eve, and a Silly VR Rant

Hello Friends,

This elf begging to climb onto the web for Christmas began as a personal email, a review of Paul Graham's little Lisp Bel. He sprouted arms, legs, and in gingerstyle ran away. Arms for symbols, legs for conses: these primitives are the mark a Lisp — even more so than the parenthesis. What do we get when we remove these foundation stones: naming and pairing?

No pairs. No cons. No structure. Unordered. Chaos. Eve, a beautifully incomplete aspect oriented triple store. No need for legs when you can effortlessly transport to your destination. Lazy. Pure. Here and now, a retrospective.

No symbols. No names. No variables. Combinators. Forth. No need for arms when you can effortlessly push and pop your stack. No words. A world without words. Virtual worlds. Virtual reality. Space. Time. Motion. Action. Kinetic Programming, a proposal.

I apologize in advance. Checking my pocketwatch, I see I haven't t

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graydon / docker-osx-shared-folders.rst
Last active February 3, 2021 15:07 — forked from codeinthehole/docker-osx-shared-folders.rst
How to share folders with docker containers on OSX

How to share a folder with a docker container on OSX

Mounting shared folders between OSX and the docker container is tricky due to the intermediate boot2docker VM. You can't use the usual docker -v option as the docker server knows nothing about the OSX filesystem - it can only mount folders from the boot2docker filesystem. Fortunately, you can work around this using SSHFS.

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graydon / LLM.md
Created March 29, 2023 03:59 — forked from rain-1/LLM.md
LLM Introduction: Learn Language Models

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

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graydon / country-bounding-boxes.py
Created April 23, 2014 00:03
country bounding boxes
# extracted from http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip
# under public domain terms
country_bounding_boxes = {
'AF': ('Afghanistan', (60.5284298033, 29.318572496, 75.1580277851, 38.4862816432)),
'AO': ('Angola', (11.6400960629, -17.9306364885, 24.0799052263, -4.43802336998)),
'AL': ('Albania', (19.3044861183, 39.624997667, 21.0200403175, 42.6882473822)),
'AE': ('United Arab Emirates', (51.5795186705, 22.4969475367, 56.3968473651, 26.055464179)),
'AR': ('Argentina', (-73.4154357571, -55.25, -53.628348965, -21.8323104794)),
'AM': ('Armenia', (43.5827458026, 38.7412014837, 46.5057198423, 41.2481285671)),