July Zoom Meeting!
Pants optional.

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME IS IN EFFECT --- START IS 09:30 PDT

go to: forth.org/zoom for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
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Fourth Saturday of July, 2026.
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**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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JOIN US FOR IN-PERSON LUNCH IF YOU'RE IN THE AREA!
SEE SEPERATE MEET-UP EVENT. RESERVATIONS ENCOURAGED.
COME CELEBRATE DR. TING'S ANNUAL JULY BBQ AT THE TREE HOUSE. (STANFORD CAMPUS)
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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 SavingsTime) START TIME
To determine your offset, go to Google and ask "what time is it in Palo Alto, California, USA?"
***All duration 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
Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers?
What are you working on?
Dr. Ting July in-person lunch!
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Extending “word embedding” in Large Language Model to include “stack-words” (stack machine words) --- Liang Ng
**___”**We extend “word embedding” in Large Language Model, specifically llama.cpp, to include “stack-words” or "stack machine words", which is simply referred to as “words” in FORTH terminology, with the intention to determine if LLM is capable of generating valid FORTH (and derivatives) expressions.”
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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. Remember that the whole meeting is recorded for YouTube.
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Redesigning Forth: comptime register stack on Arm64; optimization tricks; color-Forth in ASCII. --- Nelo Mitranim
___- Adapting stack-style programming to register-based ISAs. How to turn stack-style code into good register codegen WITHOUT a smart compiler. Also: constant folding from within the language.
___- Syntax experiments for readability. Distinguish nouns, verbs, and declarations in plain ASCII. Use general rules which work when extending the vocabulary. Make your Forth color-FUL in any editor!
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SOFTSIM in arrayForth --- Greg Bailey (TENTATIVE)
“I currently plan to produce one or more short videos on use of SOFTSIM in
arrayForth to understand what's going on inside our chips. Assuming nothing
gets in the way of that plan, I should have a bit of video to send you for
next Saturday. “
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CoSy Update --- Bob Armstrong
Please note Bob will not be batting “clean-up” today. Join us for a special guest at the end of the meeting.
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Visits with Forthers --- John Rible
___"I will give a summary of the Forth people I visited on my two-month,
9500-mile, trip to my 60th MIT reunion: David Petty and the Millers in
MA, Greg Baily in MO, Rich Wagner in CO, and Chuck Moore in NV."

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Random Access, Round Table, Replays, Ad Hoc
Forth Day after-action review.
What was your first Forth? On what platform?
Trade shows, public outreach.
Elevator pitch for Forth / printing a bookmark list of resources?
Meeting locations from history, Chabot, ABI, Dyson Wedge, Cogswell, …? We need a list!
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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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Coming next month:
>some more stuff
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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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