• Bluesky
• Substack

Edward Butler

Postscript expressed in magical circles.

• Vol 2, ch. 2: Instruction format

  • II.2.1.3: ModR/M and SIB bytes

  • II.2.1.5: Encoding of ModR/M and SIB bytes

    • Tb. 2-2, Tb. 2-3: 32-bit tables

  • II.2.2: 64-bit, aka "IA-32E", REX prefix

• Vol 2, ch. 3–6: Specific instruction references

  • Vol 2, ch. 3.1: How to interpret instruction tables

• Vol 2, appendix B: Examples of encodings

See also:

• Table overview: http://ref.x86asm.net/coder64-abc.html (https://links.johv.dk/293)

• https://picolisp-explored.com/a-railroad-simulation-with-des

• Locality of Behaviour

• https://alarmingdevelopment.org
• https://vimeo.com/jonathoda

Cool demo, and the section on related work is also interesting: https://youtu.be/fIEcXAHy6bU?t=1176, on the difference between patch-based systems (arrows as data, boxes as functions) and PANE (arrows as functions, boxes as data).

Beautiful: https://mental-labour.neocities.org/journal/november623

This is the thing that used to be at https://philosophers.life/. (The author seems to be interested in AI and maybe other stuff like that, but the website is nonetheless interesting.)