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+# Imaginary Programming
+Shane Mulligan
+
+Imaginary Programming (IP) is both methodology and paradigm. It is an
+extension of literate programming and a way of creating software without
+the use of imperative, functional or even declarative code. Yet IP employs
+all disciplines to achieve the miraculous. The only contingency is on one
+or more language models, known as foundation models. The real value of IP
+is not found by abandoning sound logic altogether, but in weaving the real
+with the imaginary. The future of imaginary programming is one in which
+almost all of computing is inferred. I have built a suite of tools based on
+emacs for interfacing real programming languages with imaginary ones; all
+of this in order to demonstrate what I mean; a ‘complex’ terminal that lets
+you imagine what happens no matter how nested you are within interpreters,
+an example-oriented language, a file format that encodes the provenance of
+text and a library for imaginary functional programming primitives called
+iLambda. It is important to recognise IP because, for lack of a better
+term, it has far-reaching implications for intellectual property and the
+GPL. Please keep an open mind.
+
+
+
+# Outline
+
+-   5-10 minutes:
+-   a 5 minute introduction to imaginary programming, followed by
+    -   a demonstration of iLambda.
+        -   iλ, a family of imaginary programming libraries
+        <https://mullikine.github.io/posts/designing-an-imaginary-programming-ip-library-for-emacs/>
+
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+-   a 5 minute introduction to imaginary programming, followed by
+    
+    -   a 5 minute introduction and demonstration of Pen.el.
+        -   <https://semiosis.github.io/pen/>
+    -   a 5 minute org-babel and emacs lisp demonstration of iLambda.
+        
+        -   iλ, a family of imaginary programming libraries
+        
+        <https://mullikine.github.io/posts/designing-an-imaginary-programming-ip-library-for-emacs/>
+    -   a 5 minute demonstration of ‘cterm’ (complex term) and ‘ii’
+    
+    (imaginary interpreter).
+    
+    -   <https://mullikine.github.io/posts/imaginary-real-codex-complex/>
+    -   <https://semiosis.github.io/ii/>
+    
+    -
+
+40 minutes:
+
+-   a 10 minute introduction to language models, their capabilities and
+    imaginary programming.
+    
+    -   a 10 minute introduction to creating prompts with Pen.el.
+    -   a 5 minute org-babel and emacs lisp demonstration of iLambda.
+        
+        -   iλ, a family of imaginary programming libraries
+        
+        <https://mullikine.github.io/posts/designing-an-imaginary-programming-ip-library-for-emacs/>
+    -   a 5 minute demonstration of ‘cterm’ (complex term) and ‘ii’
+    
+    (imaginary interpreter).
+    
+    -   <https://mullikine.github.io/posts/imaginary-real-codex-complex/>
+    -   <https://semiosis.github.io/ii/>
+    
+    -   A 5 minute brief on examplary and advanced prompt programming.
+        -   <https://semiosis.github.io/examplary/>
+    -   5 minutes for Prompting Requests and Q&A
+
+Availability
+
+(during the conference days (Nov 27 and 28))
+
+All hours.
+
+How you’d like to handle questions
+
+Live web conference
+
+--->
+
+IRC libertyprime at #emacs on libera
+
+Shane Mulligan
+
+
+
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