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Iliad (YC W23) Remix – Creative crutch for generating game assets(ycombinator.com)
1 points by davisclark 4y ago|1 comments
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by davisclark 4y ago
Iliad (YC W23) is building a creative crutch for rapidly generating game assets. Unoriginal designers and artists who lack the powers of inspiration and invention can use it to create concept art, 2D assets, and 3D voxel art. It's expe
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by davisclark 11y ago
Why doesn't Iowa fall off the map?
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by davisclark 11y ago
Pynchon wrote several short stories in highschool in the first person. See Voice of the Hamster ( http://genius.com/Thomas-pynchon-voice-of-the-hamster-annota... ). I find the similarities between this story and Cow Country i
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The Immortal Horizon (2011)(believermag.com)
5 points by davisclark 11y ago|0 comments
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Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land (2010)(mybyzantine.wordpress.com)
10 points by davisclark 11y ago|2 comments
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by davisclark 11y ago
In that case, aren't you, in effect, choosing for me the set of choices available to me for selection, based upon a preconceived notion of "quality"? The Underground Man goes on to say, “I agree that two times two makes four
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by davisclark 11y ago
In Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky nailed the reason computers and science and algorithms will never be able to replicate humanity or predict the actions of man, when he wrote: “What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear wit
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by davisclark 11y ago
I think this is getting at one of the root absurdities of human existence in general: the desire to be understood, to socially connect, and the overwhelming truth that real understanding is impossible. We are born, we live, and we die alone
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Now fighting the injustice of Traffic Tickets(blog.fixed.com)
1 points by davisclark 11y ago|0 comments
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by davisclark 11y ago
Hooman Majd's book, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, is pretty interesting, especially as it relates to ta'arof at the international level. He argues that many of the seemingly bizarre comments and gestures made by Mahmoud Ahmadinej
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by davisclark 11y ago
Araji was the source of the NYT article; what I find interesting is the rhetorical trouncing dispensed by Hitchens. Although the essay was published in 2005 and Hitchens died in 2011, were he alive today, I highly doubt he'd have much
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This Was Not Looting(slate.com)
4 points by davisclark 11y ago|3 comments
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by davisclark 11y ago
Bryan R. Wilson, "The Persistence of Sects", Diskus, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Vol 1, No. 2, 1993
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The Persistence of Sects(workersect.org)
22 points by davisclark 11y ago|12 comments
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Togetherness – Airlifting the IM-99A missile(pynchon.pomona.edu)
16 points by davisclark 12y ago|0 comments
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Thomas Pynchon (1984): “Is It O.K. To Be a Luddite?”(pynchon.pomona.edu)
3 points by davisclark 12y ago|0 comments