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Deepak Karki 2021-12-27 18:59:32

Has anybody read this book? Reviews?

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691164069/opt-art

Linear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering the best solution to a problem among a set of available alternatives. It is one of today’s most important branches of mathematics and computer science—and also a surprisingly rich medium for creating breathtaking works of art. > Opt Art>  takes readers on an entertaining tour of linear optimization and its applications, showing along the way how it can be used to design visual art.

Henning Sato von Rosen 2021-12-31 21:19:32

Hi all;

🎆🎆🎆 Happy & Inspiring New Year !!! 🎆🎆🎆

  • ( A ) What are some ideas/things/projects you would like to ponder/explore/learn/prototype/build in 2022?
  • ( B ) Same question, assuming 2022 were a sabbatical with free time & resources & ample collaboration available?
Ivan Reese 2022-01-01 19:35:53

For (A) and (B), I'm hoping to do at least one new Hest prototype. Just one. Even 3/4 of one would be an improvement. Gah.

Ivan Reese 2022-01-01 19:36:07

You?

William Taysom 2022-01-02 04:21:56

Great question. Same thing we do every year Pinky. 🤣 At the moment...

(1) I have a cute idea for a logic language somewhere between Prolog and Ohm.

(2) I would like to add a less definite, more probabilistic aspect to it.

(3) I want to continue exploring a notion of kinetic, non-symbolic, embodied programming where motions are used to define transformations of whole spaces rather than acting on discrete points.

Perhaps an even better question is what would success look like for each project:

(1) Allow for the definition of a game like rummy in about a page of code. Likewise, for a serviceable AI player.

(2) It should be easy to turn a parser for a language like JSON into an error correcting parser, "You're probably missing a double quote here 'cus otherwise the rest of this doesn't make sense."

(3) Defining the gamma function should feel as natural in its own way as defining factorial in a functional programming language. (See The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer.)

Henning Sato von Rosen 2022-01-02 11:39:27

@William Taysom "what would success look like?" wow that is an intriguing way to describe / summarize projects. I must contemplate and apply

Konrad Hinsen 2022-01-02 17:46:13

(A) I hope to get another iteration of my Leibniz project finished. Framing its goal in FoC terms, it's a computational medium for a very specific audience, computational scientists.

(B) I'd not only work on Leibniz itself, but also implement a collection of computational tools (and/or interfaces to existing tools) on top of it, to demonstrate its utility.