23: Nerdout! Fuzzy and crisp systems
FOSS and Crafts
English - February 13, 2021 17:15 - 41.1 MBCrafts Leisure Technology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Morgan is in the final crunch of finishing her dissertation draft, so
Chris's brother Steve Webber joins us for a special "nerdout":
analyzing the dual nature of fuzzy vs crisp systems! From physics to
biology, from programming languages to human languages, the duality of
fuzzy and crisp is everpresent.
Yes, this really is what Chris and Steve sound like whenever they get
together...
Links:
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
(but this version looks better on the web)
and the 1980s lectures
(also on Internet Archive
but the YouTube uploads are more recent and higher quality)
The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written by William Byrd
Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual, which also now has a lovely reprint for sale (see Appendix B for Lisp in Lisp, albeit in m-expression rather than s-expression format... m-expressions never took on)
The narcissism of small differences
To Mock a Mockingbird
by Raymond Smullyan. Also, presumably not the link Steve had shared with Chris
back in the day (but maybe it was?) but here's a more math'y breakdown of
some of the ideas, To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction
Neats and scruffies
(see also our previous episode about machine learning)
Alan Watts' lecture on "prickles and goo"
Carcinisation
(convergent evolution on "crabs")
Lisp vs APL: "Mud and Diamonds"
Lojban,
and here's a pretty good Lojban intro
The infamous Lojban "bear goo"
debate