TR2: Jumbo Revisited, Part One: Jum
Published 2026-01-18
Project: Jumbo
Code: https://codeberg.org/Vivtek/AI-FARG-Jumbo
Douglas Hofstadter’s program Jumbo was a model of the human cognitive mechanisms involved in solv- ing anagram puzzles. It defined an approach that set the agenda for decades of research through a dozen doctoral dissertations, and my current focus is to recapitulate (some of) that work in a single, unified codebase. This report addresses the implementation decisions and lessons learned during development of the first stage of Jumbo’s process model.
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