Somewhere in the literature, Ken Kahn (I think) mentions that some children show surprise that when you make a mistake and correct it in training a robot (e....
I suggest a feature, where a programmer could right-click on a bird or nest and be able to follow the links so represented (for local birds/nests). If the...
Dear ToonTalkers, ... Interesting ideas. I have notes (that are over 10 years old!) on the idea of adding a lasso to ToonTalk. (I'm not sure if a lasso is...
I like Jack's idea better. I'm afraid with the lasso you might get lost. Grab the tail of a bird, and suddenly you're in some house in the middle of nowhere. ...
Hi all. ... lost. ... middle ... My conception of the lasso is that you see an amusing animation of you running after the truck you lassoed or flying behind...
I didn't mean the lasso would get lost - I was thinking of the programmer. Imagine you hang on to a bird which is somewhere in the middle of a long recursive...
Hi, I don't think introducing right-click menus is such a good idea. It's removing you from that world - altough it probably would be fine for a professional...
Hi all. I think there are 2 issues here: 1. Desirability of automatic dead code elimination. I feel strongly that if there was such a feature it should be off...
Hi, This idea just dawned on my (literally). Ever since first coming across this problem, along with Yishay Mor and Gordon Simpson from London's IOE, in 2002,...
There are two things to consider here. First is whether the general approach you propose, in the sense of saying that to mediate between two objects that have...
I suggest for a future version of ToonTalk (TT) that the player or a robot should be able to drop objects on Dusty. This should result in two effects. First,...
I suggest that Ken should put off all "big job" enhancements until such time that ToonTalk (TT) can wholly (or nearly wholly, less readily available tools such...
How many of the CDs have sold? I would like to hear from people other than just Ken and the Weblabs people. I would like to hear from people who bought the CD...
Dear ToonTalkers - Interesting proposal and discussion. I'll start by telling 2 stories: 1. Soon after coming to Xerox PARC in 1984 I began to work on ...
Dear ToonTalkers, ... If I were to start building ToonTalk today (or a successor rather than new versions) then I would do as Jack suggests: make it possible...
Hi everybody, My concern with the proposal is to develop a way to "mediate", as Jack puts it, potentially-conflicting interaction between two objects. I can...
Hi Ken, Regarding the two issues: 1. Somehow it doesn't feel right to me that while students are working around a physics subject, such as center of mass, one...
Hi all. Leonel wrote: 1. Somehow it doesn't feel right to me that while students are working around a physics subject, such as center of mass, one should ask ...
Hi everybody, This idea doesn't have to be something deemed "implement right away" or "implement in X months" or whatever. I am proposing it as a reflection ...
Hi all. As I tried to imagine how a constanble would deal with a collision between A, B, and C, things get too complex. If it deals with A and B then when...
Would it be fair to say that the primary goal of ToonTalk is to take concurrent constraint programming and target it to the youngest people who have the...
Hi Jack, I would like to comment on this, having in mind that my main age target is preschoolers (3-5 years). First a brief comment on the first question Jack...
Hi all. Jack wrote: ""Would it be fair to say that the primary goal of ToonTalk is to take concurrent constraint programming and target it to the youngest ...
Dear ToonTalkers -- I'm wondering if it is worthwhile to revive an old feature where ToonTalk pre-processes everything Marty speaks. ToonTalk versions 1 and 2...
When I answered this before, I must have accidentally sent my answer to Dr. Kahn alone, when my intent was to answer in public. ... I think that's a perfectly...
Hi all. I agree with Jack. Rather than changing the code, I recently changed the text to add "(minus)" where appropriate. And in the Portuguese it adds ...
... Remember sum peple mite like the old way beter (you get a text pad with the XML encoding) and sum peple dont. Maybe you shud hav option in the INI file...
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