euroderf

oh, spoiler.

In the Lynch version the mentat Thufir has a short rap where he is getting the house's defensive systems in order. Cool stuff.

"Sector six-eighty, copy the sixth the sum of the eighth quadrant of the ninth plus eight-four circles weave the eighth quarter the fourth, copy!"

You'll want to read about SAGE

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment

very OT: lately I'm seeing "wreaked" a lot but what about "wrought".

For "fix" substitute "assemble": there's the Ikea model.

Shouldn't this return errors to the "other processes [that] had open file descriptors pointing to new" ?

When this system of classification is mapped to politics, does anything actionable emerge ?

Hey Alexa, change all paperclip production to coconut production.

You make it sound like the DNC.

When did it become socially acceptable to throw things out rather than repair them ? When did it become economically rational ?

Helsinki (for one) needs some real repair cafés.

You suggest that the market segment for frontier models is necessarily shrinking. But what if it's just a failure of imagination on the part of users ?

Shirt folding is piker stuff. The acid test (imho) will be to cleanse a bathroom & shower (or tub) top to bottom. Sparkling and provably sterile. Special treatment for mold on fixtures and walls, and for leftover body stuff (blood, mucus, fungus, what have you).

"We're living in an attention economy."

"So's your mom."

Just wait. An A.I. will devise a formula for a real grey goo.

Not to mention having all this on your permanent record.

Those Three Laws of Robotics have a definite order.

If this supply of high-value jobs still needs to meet demand, that is a pretty severe constraint on the supply.

I like the emphasis on the development of the individual as a mentally co-ordinated cognitive whole.

Carbon-based lifeforms gotta give the silicon-based a run for their money.

I suspect that the nervous system acts as a distributed antenna for "picking up" other antennas.

I for one believe consciousness will not happen without qualia,

Not jesting! And, point taken. But it made me wonder. It was intentional (within the limits of intentionality for an infant) and repeated.

The state of American math skillz.

I always liked his observation that Disneyland was created in order to make the rest of America seem real.

I remember reading about the Belts in the early 60s (IIRC). It most definitely spooked me. How will men (erm humans) ever get thru the Belts safely ? But then they disappeared from any and all discussions of spaceflight.

My boy when very young (just months) went thru a phase where in the middle of the night he would suddenly sit bolt upright, swivel his head to scan the room, and then conk out again. This was not caused by noises.

I found this reassuring and slightly amazing, that he is wired to do his part as a nighttime lookout.

Analysis, analyses. Basis, bases. Many more.

> Endnotes maximize disruption, the reader has to turn to the back of the book to find the end note, then return to what they were originally reading.

This is why Tufte-style margin notes are so nice. It is effortless to scan them and choice to read or skip. I wish more blogging software included it as a sort of standard styling option.

I remember mentions of mascons during the Apollo missions. They were at the time a bit mysterious but their existence and influence were known.

The wordless instructions are generally great, except in the occasional instance where there's a confusing panel or two.

Has anyone ever seen an academic analysis of the visual "language" used ? Or even any articles about it, serious or humorous ?

USA: Hyperdetailed electronic information about you does not belong to you. EU: Well, it sorta does, altho we're still working out the kinks.