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Any news about the #SICM reading group?

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#SICP #SICM #studyGroup the-first hopes and dreams. Just 4 of us to begin with!

- Is the scmutils used in the books ported and available for a scheme like chicken instead of MIT scheme?

- @rwxrwxrwx do you think you could blog an explanation or worked example of Sussman's s-expression formulation of differential calculus? Someone found SICM's throwing-out of The Usual Symbols in favour of schemey s-expressions confusing.

We really need to meet in a seminar room rather than the sushi place.

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#SICM reading group today?

When? (20:00 UTC)
Where? (lambdamoo?)

Please confirm. Thanks!

@kakafarm #SICP & #SICM #studyGroup meet 1800UTC Saturday in #lambdaMOO
Remembering both are free online
https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf
https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/9579/sicm_edition_2.zip/book.html

this weekend, let's start by talking about our initial strategies and tools for the book/s. Scheme and scmutils? If you aren't familiar with it, the right book for you is SICP (structure and interpretation of computer programs)

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#lisp - agnostic #SICP #SICM study group toot: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape/113352761755254290 tentatively 1800UTC Saturdays.

I'm evaluating if I should try to work through "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" again.

Prep Lecture:
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6707

http://fmnt.info/blog/20180228_sicm/index.html

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#sicm

@screwtape been #sicm curious awhile here, will now definitely have to get a copy soon 📚

Are you interested in mechanics, mathematics and computation?

Would you be interested in pairing up with me and working through Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics[1] together? #sicm

I live in London and would love to do so in person, but happy to attempt this online too. ☺️

1. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262028967/structure-and-interpretation-of-classical-mechanics/

Been relatively offline as of late. On the upside, I've landed a decent contract for the next few months leading the development of a SAAS startup, which means I'm experiencing a bit of stability for the first time in many moons. On the downside, I'm under NDA and can't share any of the stuff I'm working on, and have had no free time to hack on Scheme.

As I'm doing CG work again, I'm considering diving into #SICM. I've loved the first two chapters of LiSP, but as its not really tied to what I'm working on atm, its hard to find time to dedicate to it. I'm a bit scared of SICM, as even a friend who studied physics (and has read SICP) said he found it to properly difficult. But I think if I go in assuming the book will take a year at minimum to complete, and allow myself to take my time without trying to schedule according to abstract expectations, it could be just the right time to brave the beast.

By restricting Blender to a limited subset, you could quickly get the user to build little voxels and start stacking them together in such a way that they'd be able to build anything they would in #minecraft after a first tutorial. with that demonstrated, it's easy to segue into gradually building up satisfying towers of glistening topologies beyond minecraft's capacity. Building up in this way could get users to think about CGI topology as the "means of of combination and abstraction[1]" from the start and in such a way that it doesn't feel arduous, and show users that its really where the magic and explosive power is so that they don't just get by with automatically generated meshes, which are simply horrible and I think people learn enough to cut things out, extrude them and color them, but then think there is some wizardry beyond their capacities when their PBR'd animation doesn't have that crazy fidelity they see others achieving.

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[1] #sicp fanfic is good*
[*] is it time to read #sicm?

This #conj23 talk is great, Sam Richie going through his journey diving into Sussman's #SICM and #scmutils, it will be very relatable to anyone who has become possessed for several years with the drive to truly understand some body of knowlege (I'm looking at all of you)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNiqDZz-lp4

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thanks to aaron maxwell forr providing a soltion to make scmutils work in my setup #sicm

http://redsymbol.net/articles/using-gnu-emacs-with-scmutils/