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RSA Animate: The Divided Brain by Iain McGilchrist

The division of the brain is something neuroscientists don't like to talk about anymore. It enjoyed a sort of popularity in the '60s and '70s after the first split brain operations, and it led to a sort of popularization which has since been proved to be entirely false.

It's not true that one part of the brain does reason and the other does emotion. Both are profoundly involved in both. It's not true that language resides only in the left hemisphere. It doesn't. Important aspects are in the right. It's not true that visual imagery is only in the right hemisphere. Lots of it is in the left.

And so in a sort of fit of despair people have given up talking about it.

The BQN list operator ‿ can readily transfer into Raku. It's basically the same as Raku's list operator: ,. There is a small devil in the detail and that can be illustrated in the following example:

multi sub infix:<‿> ($a, $b) { 
  infix:<,>($a, $b) 
}

say 1‿2‿3; # ((1 2) 3)

Message passing to shared stateful objects/actors/processes is still a form of shared state. You cannot "replace shared state with message passing".

(from http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5504#comment-95421)

My understanding is that this is a profound misunderstanding of the actor model.

My understanding is that the actor model involves zero shared state. (That is, zero shared state between actors. An actor may or may not also not share state temporarily within itself (where itself is its current behavior), or temporally, between incarnations of itself (cf "Sussman and Steele ... concluded Actors were essentially closures that never return but instead invoke a continuation" from The History of Scheme" paper).)

The closest I currently see to anything that could be thought of as "state", but is not if you think about it, is an "address" that is rationally presumed to be the "mailbox" of some actor, or a "message" that is rationally presumed to encode some information. In reality neither is "state" bu

To pipe in a string to a Raku program, you can use the echo command to output the string and pipe it to the Raku program. For example, if your Raku program is called my_program.raku, you can use the following command:

echo "my string" | raku my_program.raku

Alternatively, you can pass the string as an argument to the Raku program by using the -e option with the echo command, like this:

echo -e "my string" | raku my_program.raku

@A moment with Musasia 😍

This comment is mostly just somewhere to store some info. It may well interest no one else but me.

In my above comment I wrote "His official YT channel had grown to about a million subscribers about a year ago. I think it's now approaching 2 million". I realized after I'd written it that I was quite unsure about the exact number a year ago. So I investigated. It turns out it is approaching 2M but was about 1.3M a year ago, not 1M. This comment corrects the record with the summary I just gave plus a ridiculous amount of detail below that will almost certainly interest no one but me.

Before I get to the hard data, let me say a bit about where I'm coming from.

“Lots of legumes, whole grains, and vegetables; some fish; no red meat or processed meat and very low white meat; low sugar and refined grains; good levels of nuts and olive oil, and some dark chocolate.”#

https://scitechdaily.com/do-you-want-a-long-healthy-lifespan-the-characteristics-of-a-longevity-diet/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930542

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xcfJY6QwnY

To future me and any other readers:

The Reddit rendering (which you should see if you click the foregoing link) of this gist's underlying markdown hopefully renders the footnotes in the Reddit footnotes bullet below such that they look the same style as seen in the StackOverflow footnotes bullet of the GH gist rendering of this gist. I say "hopefully" in the sense they do look the same using my laptop as I write this in Feb 2022, and in the sense I'm hoping it'll remain that way. But of course things might look different on your system, and any of these platforms can change their rendering at any time.
Use this footnote approach if you like, but it's complicated, and, worse, probably horrible for the blind, and, worst of

"a quasi is like a little templating language for the raku code"

Please consider choosing a word other than quasi. Using quasi introduces conceptual complexity that is unnecessary and, imo, harmful. Given that what it does is a "Transform of a syntax template" with the transform being "To AST", please consider one or more of ToAST, toAST, and/or toast, and perhaps encourage the lie-to-children simplicity of "template of AST".

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