Thursday, November 20, 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Language Models History: Points in a Space, 1966
Update from 10 minutes later:
Summary of the 1966 Landin paper in a Google AI Overview —
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In his 1966 paper "The Next 700 Programming Languages," Peter Landin explored the potential for a large and diverse family of programming languages, arguing for a principled approach to language design focusing on well-defined frameworks and a "well-mapped space" of possible languages. He introduced ISWIM (If You See What I Mean), an abstract language that served as a foundational concept for functional programming. [1, 2]
Here's a more detailed explanation:
In essence, Landin's "Next 700 Programming Languages" paper was a seminal work that envisioned a future where programming languages would be designed more systematically and in a more principled manner, paving the way for the development of various functional and dataflow programming paradigms. [1, 2, 6]
AI responses may include mistakes.
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Two links from the homepage of the Crary of the cmu.edu link above —
A Man For All Seasons
The Gods of the Copybook Headings .
Other material related to the name Crary —
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Sunday, October 6, 2024
“Den Kopf Benützen” — A Phrase from Marfa
Related material —
This morning's post on witchcraft and reason, and related images —
Also from December 1982 —
Addendum for Art Gawkers . . . and P. T. Barnum —
The above review by Perl includes remarks on
Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle
Zone, 270 pp., $32.00.
NOT Crary and Perl —
Jonathan and Einstein in "Arsenic and Old Lace."
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Special from the Crary Block:* The See Saw
* The city block in Warren, PA, containing the former Crary residence,
Crary Art Gallery, and the former Kopf residence.
For Orson and Kane . . .
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
The Dreaming*
Ask Mark Wahlberg.
* See as well the September 1982 Kate Bush album.
Addendum of 10:50 AM June 11 —
My own concerns in September 1982 were
rather different —
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Thursday, November 24, 2022
The Drum Machine
"A struggling music producer sells his soul to a 1970s drum machine."
— Summary of a short film by Kevin Ignatius, "Hook Man."
The music producer pawns his current drum device
and acquires a demonic 1970s machine.
Artistic symbolism —
The 16-pad device at left may be viewed by enthusiasts of ekphrasis
as a Galois tesseract, and the machine at right as the voice of
Hal Foster, an art theorist who graduated from Princeton in 1977.
For an example of Foster's prose style, see
the current London Review of Books.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Crary Art: A Long Dark Trail*
* "The Long Dark Trail" is the title of a recent film
directed by a later resident of 505 Market Street.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022
“Jaeger (Jäger)”
" The term jaeger is German for 'hunter.' "
— Thomas Tull, producer, at 0:42 / 4:10 in
Pacific Rim – "Jaegers: Mech Warriors" Featurette
Related language notes —
"Drift" in Pacific Rim and "Haptic Drift" in The Peripheral .
See also …
"The story begins with the the doctor asking Trexler
if he has any bizarre thoughts."
— Description of a classic E. B. White story,
"The Second Tree from the Corner."
… and a particular second tree from a particular corner:
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Christmas Creep
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Picture Story
"Apart from its great antiquity the picture-story mode of presentation
favored by the unconscious has the appeal of its simple utility.
A picture can be recalled in its entirety whereas an essay cannot."
— Cormac McCarthy, essay on language and the unconscious,
April 17, 2017, quoted in a post of November 9, 2022.
See also Soifer in this journal and . . .
Related philosophical remarks —
Related entertainment —
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Sunday, November 20, 2022
Illustration
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Saturday, November 19, 2022
Software Exploits: The Quick and Dirty Operating System
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Monday, July 2, 2018
Mean Girls
The previous post, together with remarks in this journal
on April 3-5, 2013 — the dates of a CUNY philosophy
conference — suggests a look at today's New York Times
philosophy column "The Stone."
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The challenges of this enterprise go beyond merely finding the rhetorical and material resources to brush deception aside. To be a participant in a good-enough democratic polis is a perpetual project that requires taking seriously one’s abiding and evolving tastes and interests and working without surcease to create an ever-expanding social and linguistic space for every individual who arrives on our shores, or at our borders, to pursue happiness. The authors are philosophy professors: Nancy Bauer at Tufts University; Alice Crary at the University of Oxford; and Sandra Laugier at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. |
Related material about the film referenced in today's previous post —
Happy birthday, LiLo.
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