2023-12-16 16:41:10 KipIngram: is https://www.nsl.com up your ally? 2023-12-16 16:55:20 Gotta love all the shorthands (1+, 1-, 2*, 0=, 0<>) 2023-12-16 17:27:35 (1+, no such word 2023-12-16 17:28:15 LISP doesn't have a 1+, either 2023-12-16 18:26:03 That's a bit much for me to absorb quickly, but I'll take a look at it this evening. I like things like those shortcuts, when they are extremely easy things to do in machine code. 2023-12-16 18:26:18 zelgomer: :-) Cute. 2023-12-16 18:26:28 Took me a minute to catch on to exactly what you were doing there. 2023-12-16 18:34:06 Zarutian_iPad: That does look like a potentially interesting site, though; thanks. 2023-12-16 18:34:49 Right now I'm watching Crecganford YouTube videos. Dude does fairly academic deep dives into the origins and migrations of mythological tales of various kinds. 2023-12-16 18:35:08 Just watched a good one on the history of the Wild Hunt mythologically. 2023-12-16 18:36:32 An awful lot of stuff seems to ultimately go back to the Proto Indo Europeans. They can gather these stories up from places all over the world, break them down into bits so they can look at them in a similar way to a string of DNA, and then use the same methods to track them around the planet that they do for genetic migration. 2023-12-16 18:37:42 The area that's now Russia around the Black Sea - seems like it was an origin point for a whole lot of stuff. 2023-12-16 18:38:46 Some of which spread out in all directions; west into Europe, northwest into Scandinavia, east into Siberia and on into the Americas, south down into the Fertile Crescent and on into India, etc.