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The Singularity is Coming!
Need a new way to warn your friends and family about the approaching Singularity? (That’s when the robots are going to take over.)
Here you go: sing this little ditty repeatedly to the tune of “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
When the machines get good AI,
When the machines get good AI,
Then I’ll be no more than [...]
Epiphany About Writing Poetry
I’ve been reading The Pattern on the Stone for a couple days, and it’s a fascinating read. Written by W. Daniel Hillis, it explains the basic concepts behind computing. One point Hillis made is that although we describe the values of a bit as 1 and 0, these are actually arbitrary designations. Hillis says, “These [...]
Plastic Star Wars X-wing Fighter
I came across this intriguing paragraph in the third chapter of The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling. I’m not sure why I’m intrigued. The chapter is about a computer expert who is driving across America with his wife and young son in the days after 9/11. He is making the trip in order to do [...]