Fourth Saturday
*** PLEASE NOTE 09:30 AM (PACIFIC) START TIME ***

All durations and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire.

Ceremonial Starting of the Recorder
There will be a brief observance of the beginning of the monthly recording of the zoom session.

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µEforth --- Brad Nelson
"Riffing on Dr. Ting's approach to EForth in C, I've been able to produce an EForth variant with bare bones minimum C code.
Less than 300 lines of C code are combined with Forth source embedded in strings.
Windows, Linux, and ESP32 via Arduino are supported, including dynamic calls into Win32 and X11 APIs."
(Arduino has extra lines of code as each imported C function requires an explicit binding, due to lack of dynamic linking)
https://eforth.appspot.com/

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jeforth403 --- C. H. Ting
"I got jeforth to work the way I think it should. It can draw pictures like Brad Nelson's Haikus, and it plays Bach's polyphonic music. All Forth words are now self-sufficient objects. There is no need for a global memory array like the dictionary in conventional Forth systems."

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Silicon Valley FIG Challenge: Roshambo ----- Bill Ragsdale, Moderator
This month our programming challenge is the game "Rock Paper Scissors". Level One is to program the game for manual inputs. Level Two is create a learning strategy for Betty.
Allen picks Rock 50% of the time, Paper 25% and Scissors 25%. Betty picks them equally. Will they have a significant difference in their outcomes? Develop a learning strategy for Betty to win more often. Email Bill Ragsdale at bill@billragsdale.cc if you plan to participate. Forth is preferred or else your preferred language.

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Quantum Tail Wags Cat --- Jack J. Woehr
"In the past I have opined to the point of tedium that Quantum Computing would lead to re-evaluation of fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics.
It's happening now: QC lends experimental weight to the proposition that quantum leaps are not instantaneous."
(the "Jax Quantum Computing Update" although not strictly Forth, is a longstanding SVFIG tradition)

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websent --- Brad Nelson
"For those of you wondering why my presentations have larger text of late, I'll briefly show off the tool involved: websent.
Inspired by "sent" and the Takahashi presentation method, I've produced a minimalist presentation tool."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_method
https://tools.suckless.org/sent/
https://github.com/flagxor/svfig-talks/tree/gh-pages/websent

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In Memory of Randy Dumse --- Kevin Appert, Moderator
Randy Dumse of New Micros passed away in November of last year. We'll share memories of this great Forth practitioner.
To whet your appetite, have a look at this:
*** Minutes of special GEnie Forth RT Guest Conference.
***Special guest: Randy Dumse, owner of New Micros Inc.
***Randy's Topic: 'Forth as a Standalone O/S'
***ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Archive/various/stand-al.txt

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