So, Lawrence J. Dickson, with your chickens and big ideas? You’ve got my respect, brother!

–This guy is my new hero. I was researching the transputer – an everything-on-a-chip – work from the 1980s in parallel computing that was abandoned around 1990 when the speed-wars of CPUs began and the large-scale Japanese 5th Generation computing project was abandoned.

 

Look at all those chickens! But yeah, he correctly identifies common bottlenecks in computing (which then transfer through networked systems such as the internet).

 

I’m only the 2nd view on Youtube, but his kickstarter from 2013 _did_ generate the modest $3000 goal which was enough for him to get his project going.

 

I found him through a stray comment on a Stackexchange question on Real-Time Programming languages where he was promoting his kickstarter.

 

He’s done work with it too since. I checked out some patents he recently acquired.

 

http://patents.justia.com/inventor/lawrence-j-dickson

 

So, Lawrence J. Dickson, with your chickens and big ideas? You’ve got my respect, brother!

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Looks like he did it. Here’s his patent.

 https://www.google.com/patents/US9411641

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“There has been no general methodology that allows multiple unrelated tasks with varying real-time requirements to efficiently use the resources of either a uniprocessor or a multicore processor.”Yup. Oh I’m liking this dude.

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The method avoids complexity and performance uncertainty by assigning priorities and timeslicing parameters using only the order of magnitude of the required response time to input stimuli.
“Ooh, I like that. By making the levels in order of magnitude, prioritizations nest neatly into one another, logically.

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 . Because of the very wide ratio between the typical response times of each priority, the processes running under a higher priority can be treated as causing vanishingly short interruptions in processes of a lower priority.

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Target Functionalities
	Item	Response time
	Event1	1	us
	Event2	1	us
	System clock	1	us
	Serial byte	5	us
	Sound generator	1	ms
	Mouse	1	ms
	Motor1	2	ms
	Motor2	10	ms
	Click response	100	ms
	Window response	100	ms
	Math output	1	s
	Search1 output	2	s
	Search2 output	2	s===

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In this case, the fraction described above is 1/10.

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man he’s nailing it. This is how things are normally done – what he calls ‘deep’ model [hidden – where lag comes from etc]

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his ‘wide’ model exposes the systems allowing for better control of time flow, instead of pretending time doesn’t exist, which is what current programming methodologies tend to do.

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Ah ha! Here we go. He has a site:
http://lazm.org/

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more related concepts you never hear about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process-oriented_programming

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Ah ha! Full circle, from Hoare logic (hidden logic behind programming – if you’ve done programming, you’ve used this logic and didn’t know it) – to his later development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_processes which has been and is used on critical fault tolerant real time systems.

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process algebras

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I made an object using Processing (I think it was OpenProcessing) – to illustrate a concept I had/have called the “leaky triangle”. Basically, there’s no closed systems. Information always ‘leaks’ somehow. Since the triangle (or pyramid?) is the smallest shape that’s supposedly closed, the only way we get information about the inside is if it ‘leaks information’ out somehow.

But if a system is entirely closed, we’ll never know what’s inside.

Anyway, I modeled a rotating partial pyramid in Processing designed to “leak” and not work properly. On my current version of Waterfox, it spills over my whole screen and had other effects on other browsers.

http://system-of-systems.com

and yes – I think I like Z-Brush’s way of thinking better.

wait – i said it wrong – if a system is entirely closed, we won’t see the system at all]

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