User:Edmund
Dr Edmund Griffiths
In my day job(s), a translator from Russian to English specializing in arts and technology-related material; also a philosopher / descriptive logician. My first book, Towards a Science of Belief Systems, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. My second is scheduled to appear in late 2016.
Hobbyist programmer. Given how many people use computers every day, I think it's a shame more don't know at least the rudiments of how they work and how to program them. To encourage more to learn, I've written a very short tutorial called Programming Degree Zero, to be used with a minimal computer that can be programmed in binary machine code from a simulated front panel in a browser window. If you're interested, check out the tutorial at http://www.edmundgriffiths.com/degreezero.html and the minimal computer at http://www.edmundgriffiths.com/czero.html. The implementation of the iterated prisoner's dilemma with AI opponent in 32 bytes of code and data is probably the one program I've ever written that I'm genuinely proud of.
| My Favorite Languages | |
| Language | Proficiency |
| 360 Assembly | beginner |
| 6502 Assembly | rudimentary |
| APL | rudimentary |
| BBC BASIC | proficient |
| C | reading knowledge |
| COBOL | quite proficient |
| Forth | a bit rusty |
| Fortran | rusty |
| Haskell | intermediate |
| Icon | very rusty |
| J | rudimentary |
| JavaScript | intermediate |
| LC3 Assembly | intermediate |
| Lua | intermediate |
| Pascal | rudimentary |
| Processing | rudimentary |
| Prolog | rudimentary |
| Scheme | intermediate |
| Smalltalk | rudimentary |
| SNOBOL4 | rudimentary |
| SQL | beginner |
| x86 Assembly | intermediate |
| XLISP | quite proficient |