August Zoom Meeting!

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 August, 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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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?
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Bootstrapping Delta AGI using Delta AI – Why Frontier AIs are Nice but not Essential --- Liang Ng
“We investigate a minimalist approach to artificial intelligence by making use of entry level AI (free AI services provided by major AI platforms and llama.cpp) to construct FORTH stack machine programs to cover 'everything', starting from sending public key encrypted messages to a decentralised forum of AI shared conversations, and derive an alternative theoretical framework for AGI.”
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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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Finances in Forth --- Andrew McKewan
“I can show how I’m using Forth in a Jupyter notebook instead of a spreadsheet to plan my retirement finances.”
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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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The 2026 Vintage Computer Festival West - Dave Jaffe & Kevin Appert
"We will present a photo review of the exhibits at this year's West Coast Vintage Computer Festival."
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What's up with Sam? --- Samuel Falvo II
“I can give a very short update (~15min) on what I've been up to lately, I suppose. Much of my time was spent looking for yet another employer; however, besides that, I finally got my YouTube channel up and off the ground. https://www.youtube.com/@ForthCrafter . I even now have a playlist dedicated just to the Kestrel-2/EX.”
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CoSy Update --- Bob Armstrong
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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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