Nazrul’s marching song. চল্ চল্ চল্March, march, march! ঊর্দ্ধ গগনে বাজে মাদলIn high heaven the war drum sounds নিম্নে উতলা ধরণী-তলBelow, mother earth roils অরুণ প্রাতের তরুণ দলYouth brigade of crimson morn: চল্ রে চল্ রে চল্March on, march on, march on! চল্ চল্ চল্।March, march, march! ঊষার দুয়ারে হানি আঘাতStorming the gates of golden dawn আমরাContinue reading “Translation: নতুনের গান”
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Character Simulation Part 1: Prediction
The Python library soma.narrative can be used to describe a fictional person in terms of feelings, beliefs, and relationships, run them forward in time, and then ask the kinds of questions a novelist asks: when would this person break? what is she really feeling under the composure? what single thing, changed, would have saved thisContinue reading “Character Simulation Part 1: Prediction”
My hope from LLMs
The number one benefit I’m hoping for from LLMs is that they will get humans to de-LLM-ize themselves. Humans have always behaved the way LLMs do, saying long strings of words while not knowing what they are talking about. LLMs are better at this than humans (and that’s all they can do). I hope thisContinue reading “My hope from LLMs”
Mind-Body Loop as Computation
This tutorial teaches you to read, run, and write mind-body loop simulations. Each mind-body loop is simulated as a self-rewriting program that computes by editing itself. The source starts as a problem. Each run rewrites it closer to the answer. When the answer is reached there is nothing left to rewrite. The tutorial goes fromContinue reading “Mind-Body Loop as Computation”
ǁamə, language of the People of the Canopy
Draft 1: I somehow broke the voiceless nasals in 6.2, 6.3 and 7. I’m still trying to figure out how I pulled it off. It works in the other subsections. ǁamə is spoken by the miː=ni tʼuŋnɔŋ, the People of the Canopy, jungle tribes raided by the Laven pirates for galley slaves. The Laven nameContinue reading “ǁamə, language of the People of the Canopy”
Financial literacy has become a cult
Rough draft: Lëc’atl’qum
Na’yanënnil nu’ qu qum: taa në mu, iwan taataa në ‘naku. Mëwec’ në wec’ ‘i taataaku. Na’yan nu’ k’aw “noq’a” xa lhic në ‘inki: ti’ lhëmën ‘i lhëk’lhic qu ‘wam. Xa Lëc’atl’qum, nakëmeme ‘i lëc’atl’ sa tlu, xa mumu në qhalon, iwan namuxwna si’l xa tlu olu. Tlu, mu në kanlatul xa lho. Naq’uc’up’ ‘iContinue reading “Rough draft: Lëc’atl’qum”
Swahili gloss: Chai ya Jioni
It took me weeks to finish this. I don’t speak Swahili (yet). This is an attempt to gloss a Swahili poem to practice the language. I’m studying non-Eurasian gender systems for the Proto-Galactic conlang. The numbers indicate one of the 18 noun classes in Swahili. Wakati tunywapo chai hapa upenuniWakati | tu-nywa-po | chai |Continue reading “Swahili gloss: Chai ya Jioni”
How “good” capitalism came about
It’s not a secret that the liberal left forced the conservatives into compliance by threatening them with the specter of Communism. With Communism no longer operating as a specter on the global scene, the elites see no reason not to sacrifice the masses to maintain their power. Again, this is not a secret: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/habermass-bastards This situation is partly the left’sContinue reading “How “good” capitalism came about”
Who is Muhammad? What does anybody like about him?
As a non-Muslim, I finally have a clear picture of who Muhammad is in Islam. Muhammad is an avenging orphan. Nietzsche once said his Superman is Jesus returning as King, a figure combining both Jesus and Caesar. This is similar to the figure of Muhammad in Islam.
Snapshots of the Labyrinth 