Jake Waas

I blog and have a weekly podcast of years serving The Lisp Community and smallnet communities such as LambdaMOO and the gopher under the name Screwlisp, with no institutional affiliation. It would be obtuse to introduce my birth name and then explain to readers that <Jake> is actually screwlisp, and vice versa.

Lots of scientists and engineers have been on my weekly podcast the Lispy Gopher Climate, many of whom use birth names, Kent Pitman, Ramin Honary, Sacha Chua, Doug Merritt, Karl Voit (doctor of KR?), Ken Olum, Larry Masinter.. though many also use nomme de plumes - Stanford's Nosredna yduJ, shizamura (a doctor of knowledge representation), someodd, catK, me ..

My most knowledge representational thing is probably that I maintain a currently useable fork of Erik Sandewall's 2005-2010 IDA research / AI graduate course AI platform and materials https://codeberg.org/tfw/pawn-75 , The Leonardo System which had bitrotted for 10 years out of use after Sandewall finished writing his companion open access knowledge representation handbooks based on it in 2015 and me eventually taking it up in 2025 (post-humously to Sandewall).

E.g. https://communitymedia.video/w/uxcaFqra6buSK955zsuUog https://toobnix.org/w/jWdWsrBLCFkFQYrfzbzCR8 https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/lisp-feedforward-deep-learning-example/

And I mirror fipa SL since it became domain squatted after abandonment: https://screwlisp.small-web.org/software-individuals/fipa/