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The mysterious case of the missing math coprocessor
Living in a vacuum is a a curious phenomenon.
Words and phrases, a common means of communication between beings, feels foreign, disjointed, like stepping off a moving sidewalk with every step.
Yet, one cannot help oneself.
One must live, take nourishment from one’s surroundings.
One participates in odd rituals. The neighbour down the street feeds the wild raccoons, mice, rats, rabbits, birds and insects. One finds oneself killing them as they pass across one’s patch of planetary surface.
Not all of them. The birds get by unscathed. So do many of the insects.
But the mice, rats, and raccoons are fair game, their meat a little gamey.
One must live, collecting labour/investment credits for participation in the local barter system knows as the economy.
Thus, one decides to create a Kickstarter account, selling genuine Alabama-based wildlife meat as a means to stop burning down Brazilian rain forests for cow meat, adding certificates of authenticity “Killed in Alabama” with each sale, throwing in extras at higher donation points — a photo book documenting places where the wildlife called home before meeting an untimely end; a sticker stating “Rats taste better from Alabama” or “Mice — eat a heart of Dixie to save the rain forest”; and an ultimate offer for a free tour of local wildlife hangouts, trails and traps, with tips on catching critters and a chance to appear in the straight-to-YouTube series, “If it ain’t meat from Bama, it ain’t worth eatin’.”
One chooses one’s life path without using a compass, moral or magnetic.
Can one vacuum in a vacuum?
Public is good for Publix
Thx to everyone, especially Jeffrey in Custom Cuts, for the fantastic selection of fresh food at Publix.
Sharpening Occam’s Razor
A nod to another great former coworker, John Bloodworth, a strong proponent of the North Alabama Woodcarvers who is himself completing the Seven Dwarves with just the right wireframed glasses for Doc.
May John’s grandkids nurture a growing appreciation of their grandfather and his dedication to bringing out the figure hiding in wood.
Patch I saw on a guy’s hat just now
Major League Infidel:
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Welcome to Rocket City!
Besides, only in the U.S. with our large citizen based ownership of firearms would we have a popular retail store chain named TARGET.
No sweat
Sweat bee taking a water break.
Win with Min
When will I go back, OCR these images and compare price changes over time?
Shelling out
A nod to all the smiling happy people at Another Broken Egg.
Speaking of falsely planted memories!
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Boy, am I glad I found those disgruntled scientists in the subbabasement!
They announced another breakthrough overnight.
For the past few days, they have been struggling with the new supercomputer, trying to coax intuition out from the “subconscious” algorithm thought patterns within it.
They found positive results once again.
The echo effect.
By using WiFi, Bluetooth, and other radio frequencies available with the mobile phone chipsets and peripherals of the supercomputer, the scientists were able to create feedback loops for the various parts of the supercomputer, allowing it to randomly send repeating facts into a decaying pattern from which algorithms would pick out two or more facts and combine them, sending the combo back into the feedback loops, letting them decay, etc. Eventually, an algorithm would test a combined set of facts by posting the facts as a statement in online chats associated with a keyword of the fact set. If enough comments were generated by people reading the supercomputer’s post, it labeled the fact set valid, stored it in longterm memory, and looped segments of the chat log through its feedback system, putting in delays to slow down the decay rate based on “like” data or other information gathered from social media about the fact set.
The supercomputer also spends long amounts of time generating long lists of facts, storing them in its longterm memory as equations and processing external requests from the scientists using its new equations rather than ones created by the scientists.
Based on the scientists’ feedback, the supercomputer modifies its equations and randomly pulls facts from its radio frequency network decaying feedback loops to throw at the scientists in new responses.
Some responses are as funny as the best comedian’s riff on news headlines.
More results to follow…
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