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Sunday Morning After Church
- Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values,
"sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and...
- Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules-
forget
all of that. It's when you see a megaton of...
- If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras,
perhaps
this is simply a sign of our maturity as a...
- We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software
to perform specific tasks.
We now teach the software how to learn,
and in the...
- Without sensibility no object would be given to us,
without
understanding no object would be thought. Thoughts...
- I swear sometimes they're watching me.
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Bozon Pete, Shift Foreman,
Metagenics Biomachinery...
- A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is
to be the unquestioned ruler of that world and requires all of
the leadership skills of a prince or minister.
Col. Corazon...
- He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly,
until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back...
- Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true
rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has
always astounded me.
We long for a caring Universe which will save
us...
- Fossil fuels in the last century reached their extreme prices
because of their inherent utility:
they pack a great deal of
potential energy into an...
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