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Still under-performs the fictional predicted rate of robotics in the 80s. https://tenor.com/view/johnny-johnny5-johnnyfive-reading-scan-gif-12961036 https://ten

• teraflop 8y ago
  There's also Vernor Vinge's "librareome" idea: chuck entire books into a heavy-duty shredder, photograph the resulting shreds with lots of high-speed cameras as they're blown through a wind tunnel, and finally reassemble images of the original pages with software.
  • jacquesm 8y ago
    That's a very interesting idea, but I can see a whole pile of practical issues with it. Still, top marks for out of the box thinking, it's like shotgun sequencing for books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_sequencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_sequencing
    • msandford 8y ago
      I think that's where the name comes from. I suspect that it's satirical to point out the whole pile of practical issues with shotgun sequencing.
  • rtkwe 8y ago
    I wonder if anyone has tried that yet really enjoyed the idea when I read it.
  • pjc50 8y ago
    This was more or less literally how the Stasi archives were reconstructed. It took a lot of algorithmic work and I don't know if it's finished.
    • rzzzt 8y ago
      They are having trouble with the hand-torn puzzle pieces, those currently require manual sorting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/stasi-files-east-germany-archivists-losing-hope-solving-worlds-biggest-puzzle https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/stasi-files-ea...