The 2x3 case is very interesting though, because it's the basic size of a Braille cell. (2x4 Braille also exists, but it does not help readability all that much here.) So you could read this font on a Braille device without knowing the actual Braille script.
Louis Braille actually invented his own 10px bitmap font for mixed visual-tactile use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoint It fell out of use after typewriters were introduced.
I appreciate the fact that it contains shortcuts for such words as "endeavour" (EDV), "ecclesiastic" (EC), "notwithstanding" (NWG) or "vehemence" (VMC) being a dictionary of the "basic and most frequently used words". Also, the suggested abbreviation for "sex" is "SEX".
I hike across Liechtenstein from time to time. A very light but picturesque set of trails for one day (30-50km). I usually start at the south border in a Switzerland town, cross the country up north and enter Austria.
Would it be possible to train an LLM from scratch that would speak Toki Pona? 120 word dictionary over a reduced alphabet would mean a tiny number of possible tokens and theoretically a model could be smaller than the ones used in "tiny stories" experiment (where a simplified almost childish English has been used). Maybe even a local machine would be enough to train it. I wonder if there is a large enough dataset for Toki Pona or if there is a sensible way to synthesize one? I'm no expert in LLMs or Toki Pona, though.
The wiki page says it all, but I'll highlight - Contiki has been written by Adam Dunkels, the one who invented Protothreads (coroutines using Duff's Device), uIP, lwIP and a TCP stack that fits into a single tweet - http://dunkels.com/adam/twip.html
You sure? iirc they were just "stackless" threads with true cooperative switching (so like a true context switch by changing PC but not having to switch SP and keep multiple stacks).
If you would be right I could stop being salty about something I have ever been salty since 15 years or so: I "invented" (no not really, people did this before, but in the context of the raising meshed tiny sensor network hype at that time) in my thesis, then a researcher with connections to SICS took that with him and to this group, and half a year later Contiki appeared with the same approach (just more polished and a much better PR to contend with the much uglier TinyOS).
