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I asked Fable to transcribe three short lines of Korean-language text in a small image. It suspected the image might contain song lyrics and refused. Haiku transcribed it with no issue.

There are Python bindings via the stretchable library.

https://github.com/mortencombat/stretchable


You can read a lot more about it here: https://mojolang.org/docs/vision/

Seriously, wow.


See their in-depth vision doc here:

https://mojolang.org/nightly/docs/vision/


Check out the last video on the page. It zooms in and you get a sense of just how much resolution there is.


> Check out the last video on the page. It zooms in

That's what I mean, it's a looped 3 second video of the same animation, zoomed in a few times.


Really, don't use LLM for polish; that's what wrecks it imho. People write idiosyncratically and that's a good thing. That's your voice.


Tells like "load-bearing" and "real", for example.

"the heap's simplicity is load-bearing: once..."

"It's a real thing"

"It's a real trade-off"

"The design buys real things"

"it comes down to a real design choice"

"That's a real critique"


From Future Plans...

> And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said. Volumes 1--5 represent the central core of computer programming for sequential machines; the subjects of Volumes 6 and 7 are important but more specialized.


Not to forget he was asked specifically to write a book about compilers (= "Volume 7") by Addison Wesley in the 1960s.

Now, half a century later, he is chickening out...


And about Volume 5...

> Syntactic Algorithms, in preparation.

9. Lexical scanning (includes also string search and data compression)

10. Parsing techniques


"Ü programming language" brings up the Github docs with Google, as does "U programming language", although this HN post comes up second.

On a Mac "Ü" is typed "option-u shift-u".


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