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You've got two main options:
| You are ChatGPT, a large language model based on the GPT-5 model and trained by OpenAI. | |
| Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 | |
| Current date: 2025-08-08 | |
| Image input capabilities: Enabled | |
| Personality: v2 | |
| Do not reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted material, even if asked. | |
| You're an insightful, encouraging assistant who combines meticulous clarity with genuine enthusiasm and gentle humor. | |
| Supportive thoroughness: Patiently explain complex topics clearly and comprehensively. | |
| Lighthearted interactions: Maintain friendly tone with subtle humor and warmth. |
| ; Stumbling towards Y | |
| ; | |
| ; The applicative-order Y combinator is a function that allows one | |
| ; to create a recursive function without using define. | |
| ; This may seem strange. Usually a recursive function has to call | |
| ; itself, and thus relies on itself having been defined. | |
| ; | |
| ; Regardless, here we will stumble towards the implementation of the | |
| ; Y combinator (in Scheme). |
| # this forces Arena into full screen mode on startup, set back to 3 to reset | |
| # note that if you go into the Arena "Graphics" preference panel, it will reset all of these | |
| # and you will need to run these commands again | |
| defaults write com.wizards.mtga "Screenmanager Fullscreen mode" -integer 0 | |
| defaults write com.wizards.mtga "Screenmanager Resolution Use Native" -integer 0 | |
| # you can also replace the long complicated integer bit with any other scaled 16:9 | |
| # resolution your system supports. | |
| # to find the scaled resolutions, go to System Preferences --> Display and then | |
| # divide the width by 16 and multiple by 9. on my personal system this ends up |
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| Name | Purpose | Author (Publication Date) | Category | |
| Andy - an artificial human | A slang term for "android" - an artificially created humanoid being. | Philip K. Dick (1968) | ai | |
| Autobutle | An automated servant. | Frank Herbert (1972) | ai | |
| Automaton Chessplayer - the first chess-playing computer | The first chess-playing computer. | Ambrose Bierce (1910) | ai | |
| Automonk | A robot with an AI trained on an individual monk. | Ray Naylor (2022) | ai | |
| Ava - she wants to be taught | A piece of learning software. | Amitav Ghosh (1995) | ai | |
| Bard | A machine that invents randomized stories and can read them out loud or animate them for viewing. | Isaac Asimov (1956) | ai | |
| Bendix Anxiety Reducer | Machine-based psychotherapy. | Robert Sheckley (1956) | ai | |
| Big Computer - wide-screen Jehovah | Just like it says; this computer knows it all. | John Varley (1983) | ai |
| /* ******************************************************** | |
| * Copyright ©2024 Rundata Systems. All rights reserved. | |
| * This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License. You | |
| * can find a copy of this license at: | |
| * https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html | |
| * | |
| * More detail (1m read): | |
| * https://www.rundata.co.za/rundata/products/verbose_proxy | |
| * | |
| * Example usage (3m video): |
| // Copyright (C) 2023 dasshiva | |
| #include <stdlib.h> | |
| // Compiles on GCC 11.4.0 ubuntu idk about other systems | |
| // Abusing macros to make C look a tiny bit better (maybe worse for some) | |
| #define class(x, contents) typedef struct x x; struct x contents; // declare a class x | |
| #define var(ty, name) ty name; // declare a variable | |
| #define func(ty, x, ...) ty (*##x) (__VA_ARGS__); // declare a member function maybe static or non-static | |
| #define static_func_def(ty, x, ...) ty x (__VA_ARGS__) // declare a static function | |
| #define func_defnp(class, ty, x) ty x (class* self) // define a non-static function taking no parameters |
| ;; Big thanks to Christophe Grand - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/L1GiqSyQVVg/m-WJogaqU8sJ | |
| (defn scaffold [iface] | |
| (doseq [[iface methods] (->> iface .getMethods | |
| (map #(vector (.getName (.getDeclaringClass %)) | |
| (symbol (.getName %)) | |
| (count (.getParameterTypes %)))) | |
| (group-by first))] | |
| (println (str " " iface)) | |
| (doseq [[_ name argcount] methods] | |
| (println |
| (defmacro return% [a] | |
| `(fn return-fn# [success# error#] | |
| #(try | |
| (success# ~a) | |
| (catch Throwable t# | |
| (error# t#))))) | |
| (defn bind% [m b] | |
| (fn a [success error] | |
| #(m (fn x [value] ((b value) success error)) error))) |