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Hi Steve,<br>
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On 6/28/2024 3:57 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:admin@stede.me">admin@stede.me</a> admin--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
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<div class="default-style"> After watching Developer Voices I was
excited to download Cuis and give Smalltalk and the virtual
machine a brief look. I must say I am amazed. I been programming
professionally since the 90s and unprofessionally since the
Commodore 64 days as a kid. I have tried everything from
Assembly to C and everything since and I have always felt
dissatisfied with the way we program and develop software ever
since the beginning. I have had no real knowledge of Smalltalk
other than it was the first real object oriented programming
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Welcome to the Cuis community! I'm happy you found use. I hope you
enjoy Smalltalk as much as any of us do.<br>
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<div class="default-style"> I always though Smalltalk was just a
language until I fired up the virtual machine. How on Earth did
OOP get detangled from the environment and wind up as Java I
will never know. I never liked OOP but in my first few hours
playing around with it was opened my eyes. </div>
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Yeah. First it was C++, then Java... Whe we complained people called
us zealots. They never understood what they were ignoring.
Especially to blame is IBM, that after developing and selling their
own, very good, Smalltalk system, they just jumped full throttle on
Java. Big mistake they did.<br>
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<div class="default-style"> First, I just wanted to say hello.
Second I have a few basic questions I hope someone could help me
with. I want to focus my image on AI and everything with it
including consciousness, NN, LLMs but particular finding other
solutions to the same goal. </div>
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There's an interface to TensorFlow for Cuis. Also, around 10 years
ago I played a bit with deep learning. Implemented my own sigmoid,
gradient descent, etc. Never followed on that, and it is rather easy
to re do that anytime.<br>
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<div class="default-style">If anything were to come from it, I was
wondering if anyone has played around with the concept of using
Smalltalk to translate my code to different languages? </div>
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Using AI? Maybe ChatGPT can do it. Maybe a specific tool wound be
interesting. If you explore that, please keep us posted!<br>
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<div class="default-style"> I am also interested in computer
science and software engineering in general and hope to
contribute to the community if I can in any way. </div>
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Thanks. You'll find that there is a lot of room for improvement in
any direction you want to take. In general, we are rather careful
and selective with what we include in the base image, but encourage
and appreciate any experimentation or development that can be done
in external package, so everybody can easily choose what they want
to have in their image.<br>
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<div class="default-style"> Thanks again for such a wonderful
language. Lets make this the way everyone programs in the 21st
century. </div>
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<div class="default-style"> Steve. </div>
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That's the attitude!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Juan Vuletich
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