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Library of Babel captivated me as a student learning programming for the first time. I couldn't even fathom how something like that could be made in real/virtua

Library of Babel captivated me as a student learning programming for the first time. I couldn't even fathom how something like that could be made in real/virtual life. I understand it now, but I still aspire to recreate this site on my own one day. The story by Borges is amazing as well too

aspenmayer 2y ago
You may already be familiar with these, but in case you're not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem > One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913, but the first instance may have been even earlier. Jorge Luis Borges traced the history of this idea from Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, up to modern statements with their iconic simians and typewriters. In the early 20th century, Borel and Arthur Eddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations of statistical mechanics. https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/ https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/ BadAppleFont > In this post we explorer the idea to embed a animation into a font. We do this using the new experimental wasm shaper in Harfbuzz. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317055
Aerroon 2y ago
It has captivated me too. At one point I realized that the set of real numbers will probably do the same (or a creative use of the set of natural numbers).
- syndicatedjelly 2y ago
  Let me know if you’re interested in working on a Library of Babel OSS implementation ever, would love to share the work with someone as fascinated by the concept as I am! waltzes_mobiles_0r@icloud.com
  - aspenmayer 2y ago
    Found a couple for reference: https://github.com/tdjsnelling/babel https://github.com/tdjsnelling/babel https://github.com/cakenggt/Library-Of-Pybel https://github.com/cakenggt/Library-Of-Pybel And here's an API for using the site: https://github.com/victor-cortez/Library-of-Babel-Python-API https://github.com/victor-cortez/Library-of-Babel-Python-API Then there's whatever this is: https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Witness-of-Babel https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Witness-of-Babel

aspenmayer 2y ago

You may already be familiar with these, but in case you're not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem > One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913, but the first instance may have been even earlier. Jorge Luis Borges traced the history of this idea from Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, up to modern statements with their iconic simians and typewriters. In the early 20th century, Borel and Arthur Eddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations of statistical mechanics. https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/ https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/ BadAppleFont > In this post we explorer the idea to embed a animation into a font. We do this using the new experimental wasm shaper in Harfbuzz. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317055

Aerroon 2y ago

It has captivated me too. At one point I realized that the set of real numbers will probably do the same (or a creative use of the set of natural numbers).

syndicatedjelly 2y ago
Let me know if you’re interested in working on a Library of Babel OSS implementation ever, would love to share the work with someone as fascinated by the concept as I am! waltzes_mobiles_0r@icloud.com
- aspenmayer 2y ago
  Found a couple for reference: https://github.com/tdjsnelling/babel https://github.com/tdjsnelling/babel https://github.com/cakenggt/Library-Of-Pybel https://github.com/cakenggt/Library-Of-Pybel And here's an API for using the site: https://github.com/victor-cortez/Library-of-Babel-Python-API https://github.com/victor-cortez/Library-of-Babel-Python-API Then there's whatever this is: https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Witness-of-Babel https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Witness-of-Babel