Stefan Reich's Intelligent Computers

Because it's insane.

What does a terminal provide?

-History, and
-Interaction.

Interaction means calling programs. History means showing you what these programs output before. Another element is supposition - providing an input as to what the user might want to type.

That's pretty much it. Should not be too hard to program something replacing it, right?

But what does that mean in computer terms?

^^

We shouldn't trust them....

Cheers

Version 20 finalized.

Jar file.

(Sources for the nerds.)

Now you can just run the jar file - either by double-clicking on it or on the command line with

java -jar x20.jar

- and it will show you the GUI for finding and running programs.

Which are now automatically run with a console window too so you can see if they throw exceptions or something. Full control for you!

Start programming!!

Cheers

PS: Number grew to 35. Oh yeah, we wanted to make them less anonymous (on an opt-in basis!). I remember.

Layer Cake. (BitTorrent)

I'm on a Matthew Vaughn roll. It is nice. Kinda like drug use.

Cheerio

Its main problem is hidden intention disease.

When looking at a complex website, you can't really tell what it should do or how it should look. It's not even clear which browser it was designed for. And you may not have that browser either.

How about just making intentions explicit?

"This should be a large blue circle with the IBM logo in it" would be a quite accessible description of a web page, wouldn't it? Add an example picture to that, and the package is really round, isn't it?

Your "browser" can then either display the image or make its own rendering. Either way, a whole load of problems just goes away.

that are required for computers to finally soar.

Here are some keywords:

Easier
No installation
Portable.

JavaX actually requires no installation.

Programs should chat with each other. Do your programs do that? What, you don't know? See - we need change, instantly.

Android has a system-wide log("logcat") - but you only see it in a debugger (a special program for experts).

Actually, they restricted read access to the log in recent Android versions.

That's how bad Google is - they take your priviledges away with software updates.

Think about that. You cannot read the logs on your own phone.

Anyway. So we need something else, and we want to support all the platforms, as usual (Windows/Linux/Mac OS/Android).

How can we make a stable system-wide chat?

The usual idea is to have a dedicated process receiving log lines from processes and saving them. It's a SPOF which is not so good... but it will do for now.

Let's just set up this logging process directly in any JavaX program. We can make it a one-liner!

Here.. But the engine was on level 1, where it seems really un-smart. It doesn't even take loose pieces which I kind of don't get. It took me 38 moves to mate...

Stockfish levels.

It's apparently the best chess engine out there, but at level 1, it's a piece of cake to beat.

AI level 1: skill 3/20, depth 1, 50ms

is what the docs say about that level.

I think I know how thinking works.

It's full of defaults.

When you say to an artist: "Draw a person", he'll draw some kind of default person.

When you say "I want a beer", you get a default beer. (In places where that works which are, sadly, rare today...)

It's in reality a complex process actually. Neither a person nor a beer are simple entities. Nonetheless, there are defaults and pretty clear identifications. A beer is a beer (except for the fringe cases).

So. I want to say to my computer "draw a box", like, for my home page, and it should draw a default box.

Try it!

java -jar x20.jar 1000858 Prada

java -jar x20.jar 1000858 "Java (programming language)"

java -jar x20.jar 1000858 "Python (programming language)"

java -jar x20.jar 1000858 Jesus

Yes, it extracts sentences. It's quite flexible anyway, and an important basis for our future A.I., as always.

PS, gotta love history...:

Mario Prada did not believe that women should have a role in business, and so he prevented female family members from entering into his company.

Oh, and the text for "Jesus" ends with:

Jesus: Neither God Nor Man.

TinyBrain isn't so dumb after all, eh? (Whatever the line above means...)

Example (46 lines of code!)

It finds the main table on this page, parses it and prints the result.

See how easily we navigate through the table structure. A helper class called TableFinder does all the work, and leaves you a two-dimensional array of strings to process.

Output.

For a live version that pulls fresh data off Pouet, run this:

java -jar x20.jar 1000852

The latter program also shows how easy it is to integrate another program in JavaX:

!747

m {
  p {
    Class main = hotwire("#1000849");
    set(main, "html", loadPage("http://www.pouet.net/parties.php"));
    callMain(main);
  }
}

(747 is my new default translator, m means "class main" and p means "public static void main".)

JavaX - Code As You Speak. (TM)

Liebe Leute:

Wenn Deutschland mal wieder nett zu irgendwelchen Menschen ist, ist das mit besonderen Menschen auch kein Problem mehr.

Euer neuer Bundeskanzler

Unmerkel now!

Der Spiegel beweist's.

In Beirut türmt sich der Müll wegen den Politikern.

In Asien bringt der "Aufschwung" menschenverachtende Staus.

Es gibt eben keinen "Aufschwung" in der Wirtschaft - es gibt nur ewigen Terror.

Dass Ahmad mal Taxi würde fahren müssen, hätte sich der 30-Jährige nicht träumen lassen. Immerhin hat er einen Abschluss in Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Schwerpunkt Marketing gemacht.

Tja - nichts gelernt ist halt nichts gelernt.

Oh, und in Deutschland berichten sie es auch:

Mit der Freiheit kommen die Überstunden
Job-Sharing, Home Office, Gleitzeit: Unternehmen locken Mitarbeiter mit flexiblen Arbeitszeitmodellen. Das klingt entspannt, führt aber oft zu noch mehr Druck mit überlangen Tagen - zu Stress durch (Selbst-)Ausbeutung.

Ist halt keine Freiheit. Die letzte Firma, bei der ich mal überlegt habe, anzufangen (diese Woche), hat mich mit ihren Zetteln abgeschreckt, wo drauf steht: 9:45 Stand-Up-Meeting Projekt X, 10:00 Stand-Up-Meeting Projekt Y. Nee nee. So nicht!

#1000842.

Start it, connect to it in browser under :8888, upload a file and find it in (user.home)/JavaX-Uploads.

Very useful, I just transferred two files from the phone to the main computer that way.

(Android happened to decide to break USB mounting, so I really needed this. ^^)

Oracles are little programs that answer questions.

[to be continued... out of electrical energy ^^]

...as a computer owner

You see, in TinyBrain world, you are very encouraged - though never required - to be very open.

Program coming later.

JavaX goes GUI!

Source.

java -jar x20.jar 1000825

Or (same result):

java -jar x20.jar swing-start

Let's start with this.

Example output:

Q: is port 7117 open?
I'll check port 7117...
A: Yes, it is open!

This is, of course, an extensible framework for many, many, many questions that we can then answer!

Usage:

java -jar x20.jar 1000809 is port 1234 open

Then listing them is totally easy, like this. Screenshot:

Example for a program with a server socket. It's not that complicated really:

helloString = "Hello. This is #" + programID; // my hello string
port = installHelloMessage(helloString);
print("Hello world. Sleeping. Port=" + port);
sleep();

Cheers

To run the example:

java -jar x20.jar 1000803
java -jar x20.jar 1000795

I'm not even using netstat, just Java methods. So it should run on all desktops.