+1 for the mention of Forth. I use it often. LLM answers are possible now, but they are like translated C. It’s very bad style.

The standard: Forth words should be a few lines of code with a straightforward stack effect. Top level of a program might be 5 words.

LLM will generate some subroutines and one big word of 20-50 lines of nested IF..THEN..ELSE and DO..WHILE just as if it writing C.

21 people came to your city last year. 117 died of starvation. Rats ate 2651 bushels of corn. How many acres would you like to plant this year?

--Hammurabi

I see it all over the article. Occasionally there is a more human voice. (See that single dash? The rare use of "I"?) The overall structure resembles a AI response to "explain this code snippet" prompt.

This reminds me of a problem from undergrad computer architecture: how can you validate the multiplier without checking all possible N squared inputs? (Which would take forever.)

I read later in a TI DRAM report about which bit pairs to exercise, based on proximity in silicon layout, to verify the part. I suppose something like that to stress-test the ALU.

That's my neighborhood you're "citing". It's a walking neighborhood--cars are useless with no parking next to stores. I talked to more strangers there than in any other place I've lived. My doctor would stop me on the street to look in my grocery bags.

I'm sure everybody could name local examples of Trees of Mild Renown.

Mine is the Jollyman Oak, which stood in Jollyman Park on Stelling Road, Cupertino and was 160 years old before residential re-development crushed its root system.

I heard about its death via Facebook.

I think the term for this is 'miscellany' . See Ben Schott's Original Miscellany, and follow-on books. One stand-out is 'Untimely Deaths of Pop Stars' with columns for recording 'Overdose', 'Defenestration' etc. (Check all that apply.) It also organizes weird units of measure, 50 US state conventions for dashed road lines (great example of graphical chart) and day of the week toasts onboard a ship.

Start with the "practice" articles that Wikipedia suggests when you begin as an editor. They might be stub articles, or articles with obvious issues, that you are expected to research and improve a little. Then edit articles where you have more domain expertise than the original authors.

Yes, and before modern leisure time, beaches were uncanny haunts. The borderland where shipwrecks were found and dead things floated ashore.

Beaches and lobster are real things in the natural world. Slop is something else.

Perhaps you meant 'upside' .. if so, well played.