April SVFIG ZOOM Meeting --- Fourth Saturday!

go to: forth.org/zoom
for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
**The Zoom Room is open 24-7, stop by and give it a try!
**If Forth.org is down, you can go to the Zoom room via this direct link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89716879946?pwd=Umx2WlNqU0pjbFplb3M1YS81WUU4dz09
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There will be NO IN-PERSON meeting at Stanford! Zoom only!
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*** PLEASE NOTE 09:30 AM (Pacific Daylight Time) START TIME
*** ONE HOUR DIFFERENCE FROM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.
***All durations and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire.
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# AGENDA
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Festive Starting of the Recorder
There will be a brief joyful interlude to mark the beginning of the monthly recording of the Zoom session. Recordings will be posted to the SVFIG YouTube channel!
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Announcements
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Messing With Floating Point --- Bill Ragsdale
Investigating floating point conversions using Forth.
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Screen Shot --- Everyone
We'll pause to record the roster for posterity. If you're on the lam, turn off your camera or log out for two minutes.
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Jotblk, a Place for Ideas and Notes --- Brad Nelson
“I often find myself wanting a place to jot down Forth related ideas or notes. What better form to put those notes in than Forth 64x16 screens/blocks?
I'll present the tool I've built to make this convenient across the many devices I use, and discuss where I might take it next.”
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How to share my latest FORTHish word with the world?
DJSON + Phoscript = Omni*Web --- Liang Ng
“DJSON Decentralised JSON is a simple but powerful extension of JSON, where one or more fields of a JSON are encoded as hash strings, thus providing properties of ownerships of digital assets similar to Bitcoin address, without requiring cumbersome implementations of Blockchain infrastructure. Combining DJSON with Phoscript, a FORTH dialect that is easily portable to any host programming language, they form a homoiconic universal solution, capable of integrating systems written in different programming languages, and exchanging data in different formats, hence the name Omni*Web.”
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Metaprogramming VAMP in KYRA, a Next-gen Forth-like language --- Onat Türkçüoğlu
A fresh language and philosophy for coding CPUs/GPUs from scratch will be presented along with many inventions, design decisions, tradeoffs and hurdles.
Topics include discussing the essence of Forth, questioning the current understanding of it and visions about the future of software and hardware.
VAMP is an interactive tiling video player using Vulkan, SDL and FFMPEG, all including SPIR-V shaders coded in KYRA from scratch.
See the short teaser from February on the SVFIG YouTube channel.
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ADJOURNMENT
The recording will be stopped without festivities. Good fellowship and conversation can continue in our tastefully furnished Zoom Room.
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Message Kevin Appert for more info! Send messages through Meetup-message, email, etc.
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Zoom meetings are recorded and presented on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup
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