[NTLK] Einstein, last call

[DoctorClu]

Oh?   Well first off sorry you didn't get any response then.  By that 
point in 2015 I was mostly off the list and just casually using my 
Newton as a NPDS Server <https://tracker.newtonrulez.com/> as I didn't 
use the Newtons for much at that point.

But glad it was able to help that dream become a reality.  Adding fonts 
to Newton is one thing, but the right to left support, interesting.  I 
thought there were some middle Eastern Newtons before with arabic in 
times past?




  [NTLK] Einstein, last call

*Michael Sheflin*sheflinm at gmail.com 
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>/*Michael Sheflin *mentioned how he implemented Arabic in 2008 and all />/that it took to do that, and how It took Claude maybe an hour or two. />/Not so much Claude, but an extensive database of people like Michael />/that worked those items out, providing the structure for Ai to go on. />/Michael's effort, and the effort of every programmer are part of that />/solution now. And those efforts are still appreciated by myself and />/others in this hobby. />//>//Slight clarification - and also, I'm an attorney and not an engineer so I
definitely did not have the ability to do it myself 18 years ago.

I discussed the *possibility* of implementing Arabic.  When I messaged the
list in 2015, nobody was interested and most likely I don't think we would
have been capable of doing so anyway. Claude did it in about an hour, using
a neural net on publicly available Arabic handwriting sources.  Claude had
no problem implementing right-to-left text output.  AI has taken over the
legal world very rapidly as well.  It's pretty scary.