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by masswerk 4y ago
AI generated?
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by masswerk 4y ago
As a place, it's quite strongly connected to Styria (6 out of total 8 Hartl are located in Styria and all Hartl are in Austria.) Surprisingly, as a surname Hartl is more common in Germany – but Austria is still a viable contender. :-)
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by masswerk 4y ago
Ah, yes, my bad, quoting Wikipedia of all things! > Director Karl Hartl developed Gold after the international success of his previous science fiction film Der Tunnel. However, "Der Tunnel" (1933) was of course directed by
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I love that trope of the maverick hero embarking on his mission reflected by their loved ones, left behind, as in, "Ich weiß mir keinen Rat mehr, Frau Schmidt." (I don't know what to do anymore, Mrs. Schmidt.) – We don't
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Somewhat a precursor: "F.P.1 antwortet nicht" (F.P.1 Doesn't Answer), 1932. The film was shot in three versions, German, French, and English, each with distinctive lead actors. Hans Albers, lead actor of the German version, a
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> Be warned, it is considered to be a game that will end friendships that have lasted for years, and monopoly is considered to be a game that causes less bad feelings. Well, there is also Machiavelli … ;-) *) https://en.wikip
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I'd say, the "desire to excommunicate and condemn" is still prevalent – and this is, nota bene, different from (healthy) deconstructivism.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Computers and what we're doing with them have come way farther than it was ever dreamt of or as we could have ever expected. At this point, innovation is seldom about the technology anymore, but about an opportunity for doing business.
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Having this out of the way, it's time to address the short scale versus long scale issue. (ducks) ;-)
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> Actually I just tried refreshing a couple times and it seems to be stochastic Yes, I observed this, too.
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Oh thanks, but I don't think that I have much to contribute. I had been musing about a faithful ElIZA emulation a few years ago, but ELIZAGEN put somewhat an end to this. "Moiré logic" was a joke, meaning, an interference pat
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Over the last few hours, I've seen numerous tweets displayed as deleted or not available, only to resurface later on. (Both embedded and directly linked.) Are these first signs of erosion?
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I guess, some of these may have been artefacts from how the printout was produced. Notably, ELIZA was an extensible system, meant to start with a small script, to be extended progressively, and featured "live" editing capabilities
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So have (USAGE: PALIN A B B A ...) START at the beginning and a MEMORY rule (must have exactly 4 entries) at the end: (MEMORY XYZZY (0 = A) (0 = B) (0 = A A) (0 = B B) ) :-) PS: I'm not sur
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Don't forget to implement a character based version of Spacewar! on top of it, as a little nod to Steve Russell for implementing Lisp (and relying solely on S expressions). :-)
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; Palindrome test by simple reduction ; "(0)" is a catch-all pattern ; "NONE" matches, where no keyword matches ; - ideal for help phrases (PALIN ((PALIN 0) (PRE (2) (=REDUCE))) ) (REDUCE
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Regarding Turing completeness: It may be of interest that the "PRE" rule allows us to both alter the tape (the input, we're processing) and to switch rule sets (as we are specifying a distinct rule for reprocessing). As rewri
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Well, this is quite a set of Russian dolls: 1) SLIP (Symmetric List Processor) is a collection of subroutines designed by Joseph Weizenbaum to be embedded in a higher order language 2) ELIZA is a program, also written by Joseph Weizenbaum,
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To be fair, phones have become a bit too big for pockets. I'm looking forward to carrying handles. (If transistor radios could have them, why not phones?) ;-)
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The cited source reads: > Though TI never made a successful product based on this chip, it became the basis for the "family entertainment system" sold by a previously-unknown Japanese game maker called Nintendo… https:/&#
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There are also computed sprites (computing the sprite image by code based on input), which is what Spacewar! actually used. The spaceship graphics where defined as drawing commands (octal digits encoding directions like down, down and lef
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P.S.: If interested in how it was done, I once did a writeup on the matter [1] based on a great textbook on early video game logic by William Arkush [2]. Also, don't miss Ed Fries' entertaining tale of how he repaired his specimen
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This would have been Ted Dabney (not Al Acorn, who entered the scene to do Pong). However, that you could have a simple pattern generator with segments that moved relative to the rest (by so-called slip chains, which counted relative to mai
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> I still think if this is all just a simulation, it's some type of archeological study This would actually address the inherent bounding problem of any such simulation setup. (Meaning, any entity setting up and/or controlling
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It's actually about the SOL prototype as published with plans in the July 1976 issue of Popular Electronics. Probably only a single machine was ever completed, which was functional for a short period. A few PCBs were ordered, but the d
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According to some experts it may have been done using mines and divers deployed from a sub. (The use of mines is apparently somewhat medieval in this context, as there are better methods for an experienced team.) Given the density of sensor
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Video images (taken after the removal of the debris from the site) apparently show that at least one pipe was vertically driven into the ground over a length of about 50 meters. Provided that this rift seen in the video is not manufactured
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Yes, and where introduced at the same time in HTML 2 (1995), as were and . But for any practical purpose and were ignored until HTML 4 / XHTML. I've been codin
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They are still used to separate that expression, to make the expression stand out from the rest of the text. Surely, if I set a quote in italics, I mean this to be read in a distinctive voice by an aural presentation. (This is the entire po
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Fun fact: in manuscripts, italic is represented by a single-stroke underline. An equivalent print representation is spaced text. These forms are sementically identical. BTW: The element has been rebranded as "Unarticulated An

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