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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-06 18:54 [#02514655]
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pons


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-06 19:00 [#02514657]
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the gcPC[2] paper is actually online for free. my
wrath declines slightly, but i still doubt i'll get a lot
out of this. i think i'ma make some coffee, first.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-07 02:18 [#02514683]
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if a superconductor needs to be really cold, i'm guessing a
superinsulator needs to be really hot. the words tell me so


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-11 01:48 [#02515003]
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i wear a hat often enough, and i take it off when working
out (stretching, indian clubs, dancing, breathing,
meditating, flailing etc) as falls off if i don't. then i
began losing my glasses once i got sweaty, and i stopped
wearing those too. i found i rather liked it: i'm
nearsighted, and it makes it hard to see details of anything
off in the distance. this has made it easier to focus.
concentrate.

my glasses are more or less an extension of me. a friend and
i got to talking about what we'd grab first in the event of
a fire... he said, "oh, my glasses, of course." i replied:
"i'd have my glasses on before i even understood there was a
fire and started thinking about what to grab." it's totally
true.

getting rid of them has led to moments where i feel them
like a ghostly afterimage. like a phantom limb. less amusing
is returning to something i already knew: the glasses limit
my visual field. i have to look through them. it has bred an
odd, possibly undesirable relationship between looking ahead
and looking to the side. since i'm so used to them, getting
rid of them makes me starkly conscious of how they
essentially mediate my interaction with reality.

i'm often ignoring my eyes, once i get into it. focused on
my body. the eyes are still necessary, somehow, to keep me
from crashing into the walls or furniture. i'll see a bit of
whatever out of the corner of my eye and that tells me to
rotate my foot right, because if i keep going left i'll run
into something. i've gotten to know the space, though, so
i've been ignoring it more and more. i've spent enough time
not crashing into things to let it run on autopilot.

still with me? ok. tonight, i decided to turn off the
lights. tried keeping my eyes closed for a bit, too. when i
did, it was almost like i could see my limbs through my
eyelids. they left trailers. i'm not sure exactly what this
is, but past experience indicates that this is probably a
positive development


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-11 02:27 [#02515004]
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even if i shut off the lights and close my eyes... well,
it's not totally dark. i can see vague shadows. i know where
the single distant light source is. between that and waving
my arm around for a moment, it's not hard to feel like i can
almost see my arm through my eyelid. it's more or less the
same thing as the rubber hand illusion. heck, it's more
straightforward than that. it could simply be put, "after a
few minutes of judging your arms from the bit of light that
makes it through your eyelids, it will start to feel like
you can see your arms through your eyelids."

tonight, though, it was not merely this. i had not spent "a
few minutes of judging my arms from the bit of light that
makes it through my eyelids."

i warmed up, shut off the lights, closed my eyes, kept
going. i was strongly focused on my body, and its location
in the room. i would occasionally open my eyes and
recalibrate. it's a little game to me, like walking along a
sidewalk curb as if it were a balance beam. i enjoy the
challenge of trying to stay oriented without using my eyes.

so, i was not really paying attention to the little i could
see through my eyelids -- i was trying to ignore that
entirely, in fact! after doing this for a while, i began to
see glowy, trailing afterimages of my limbs (which were
clearly not shadows, since they kept on when i turned away
from the light).

my conclusion, for the moment, is that i managed to build up
enough neural synchronization with my body and the immediate
enviornment that my visual cortex spontaneously heard the
beat and pitched in its own two cents to the experience.
perhaps it was cross i was ignoring it


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-03-11 17:37 [#02515020]
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everyone loves to write but


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-11 20:46 [#02515028]
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but wat


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-03-11 20:52 [#02515030]
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nothing, just 'but'


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-14 05:09 [#02515459]
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wat


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-14 05:11 [#02515460]
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butt nothing,
young man

as a lad i did receive a good many butt nothings from adults
and never once did they understand why i began giggling like
crazy every time it happened. it only got more giggly once i
realized angry adults were incapable of processing puns


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-03-15 22:29 [#02515638]
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think about it this way, you should be here to interact, the
'read it or not' stuff sounds more like a fugees track than
anything, since everybody hopes to be read but its not like
you dont give a fuck if people read it or not and post
anyways, you just open a text file and archieve it for your
personal use


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-16 11:03 [#02515703]
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i write a lot, and i know it.

in wrestling with this, i came up with that disclaimer. i'm
aware that people can come to feel like i've saddled them
with a tiresome homework assignment when i reply with a wall
of text. there was the naive hope that someone out there was
reading it all, but i knew that probably wasn't happening. i
kept pressure on myself to avoid assuming people would read
things, because that invariably leads to disappointment.
this seemed like a good compromise for a public message
board.

here and there, though, instead of ignoring me, someone
would get mad! they'd reply back; tell me off for writing so
much. so, i'd say, "oh, read it or not." you're not on the
hook, man! calm the heck down.

yes, i write a lot. i understand if you lot are busy some
days, though, and skip it... but, from the bottom of my
heart, i really wish everyone would read it all. getting the
brush-off hurts me like it hurts anyone. i've come to expect
it, though, which is arguably worse. i get pretty nihilistic
about it: "oh, no one reads this shit... why am i
bothering?"

the answer is: sometimes, people do read it. so i bother.
bother you all to kingdom come


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-03-16 11:48 [#02515704]
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yeah, theres too much expectation in this without a doubt


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-16 12:19 [#02515705]
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it rapidly crosses the line into expectation of expectation,
and then we're all fucked.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-03-16 18:29 [#02515714]
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it rapidly crosses in your helpless mind


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 06:38 [#02515851]
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http://tapeop.com/interviews/89/squarepusher/

TJ: The most stressful times to me are when I'm trying to
get takes down: I'm trying to get the sounds right while
playing, and the two mentalities are slightly different. I
think to play really well you have to let go to an extent --
you can't just sit there thinking about the procedures when
you're trying to deliver a musical performance. It's
multitasking; switching from one mentality and flipping
back.


switching spheres of context. flipping weasels

So what are your tactics for flippin' weasels?

TJ: I've always had an interest in how the technical
aspect of recording music affects the affective or emotional
experience of listening to it. I could save myself a lot of
effort by getting an engineer in, but my worry is that I'd
be explaining ideas to people. I'd have to convey a musical
idea verbally to somebody -- translating from one language
to another. In my head the links are direct. If I'm relying
on a verbal form of communication, "I need this kind of
sound," then I'm stuck in this dreadful territory, like
music journalists or critics when they try to convey a sound
using words. I try to avoid doing that at all costs, because
I'm not sure exactly what connotations these words might
have. In my head I've got very specific connotations. I have
a very specific texture that correlates to the experience of
green. There's no point in saying, "I need this to sound
green" to an audio engineer. I remember reading about
Captain Beefheart, and that's one of the ways that he would
communicate with his musicians — using evocative phrases
to get specific kinds of performance out of them. Personally
I don't have any..."


i have way too many

obviously, squarepusher ain't reading this, but if he were,
i would say: people are like any other instrument. if you
practice and learn how they respond to your touch, you'll
find yourself able to evoke the right phrases in no time


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 06:41 [#02515852]
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t t t t
j j j j
t t t t
j j j j

i'll be damned


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 06:44 [#02515854]
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science needs to hear about how i just remapped t t t t j
j j j to snares. i suspect snares are a sub-voxel
operation


LAZY_TITLE


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 07:25 [#02515856]
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there will be times when i'm grilling some poor soul like a
hostile prosecutor cross-examining a witness:

"a wikipedia page on X, have you read it?" no? ok
"how about the simpsons episode where..." oh, no, ok..
"have you seen the movie...." no? ok
"are you familiar with the concept of..." no, you're not.
"have you read...."

i am urgently dredging through this person's brain,
searching for a reference they "get." i think the only
reason people tolerate this is because i'm firing off
questions so fast they don't have any time to question my
questioning.

whatever the reason, i eventually hit paydirt. "you remember
that conversation we had six months ago about..."

"oh. yeah..." they say.

"well," i explain, "it's sort of like that, in the context
of [other thing we were talking about]."

"ohhhh!" the person replies, "i get what you mean, now!"

...and i think to myself, "thank god. finally!"

summary ~

1) tried to explain this thing to them for five minutes;
repeatedly failed.
2) spent a few minutes grilling them until i found a mutual
point of reference.
3) as soon as i found a mutual point of reference, it took
about two sentences to convey exactly what i intended to
convey

near future ~~

4) next time we're talking about such things, i can skip 1)
and 2), go right to 3). this should save us ten minutes

eventually ~~~~~

5) we share so many mutual points of reference that i no
longer struggle to communicate any given point


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 07:49 [#02515857]
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obviously, 5) is never properly achievable. it's just a
limit that gets steeper as you climb. you'll note i've
cheekily referenced a previous impossible conversation as
the final, successful "gettable" reference that made my
current impossible conversation successful. this is the
nature of language in a nutsphere.

much more uplifting is that these things begin to generalize
within me: after failing to explain something to three
different people, i have three ways i've managed to
successfully make some wicked abstract point, and when i
have to make it a fourth time, the previous three successes
become something i can leverage to cross the finish line a
bit faster.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 07:55 [#02515858]
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ttttjjjj: "I have a very specific texture that correlates
to the experience of green. There's no point in saying, "I
need this to sound green" to an audio engineer. I remember
reading about Captain Beefheart, and that's one of the ways
that he would communicate with his musicians — using
evocative phrases to get specific kinds of performance out
of them."


ten to one, when beefheart chap did that, he was watching
his musicians carefully, like one would in a poker game.
feeling out their minute reactions as he tries out an
"evocative" phrase. the reactions would tell him which bits
of it translated, if any, and when he'd try again a second
time it would be much more on the mark. over time, perhaps,
he came to be able to read musicans like a fortune teller.
sorted them into bins and categories; knew which evocations
to use on whom. at that point you're just programming
information into a sequencer


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 08:21 [#02515859]
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when i read "a very specific texture that correlates to the
experience of green" i got sort of bright jungle green with
wiggles and lines and bubbles. like i'm seeing light through
a wool shirt, except where i would be seeing light in that
context, i see black. where i would be seeing wool, i see
green.

does this have anything to do with ttttjjjj green? perhaps
not. but it would only take a moment from here for him to
explain his end of the picture to me. at that point, both of
us would be able to talk about green sounds with far less
confusion.

heck, i can start to do that already: tensor in green. love
that track. now i'm scrubbing through it in my head:
alright, is this his version of green? which parts? i don't
have to be synaesthetic precisely like he is to understand
what he wants when he asks for green. and now he can ask for
"my green" or "your green" too i suppose

p.s. ~ that same jungle green is what i get from "boogie
down bronx" but that track is more lissajous lines than
inverted wool shirt. does tom's green do this too? i've not
a clue. come to fucking daddy, would you like some sausages


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-03-19 08:23 [#02515860]
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green


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-06-24 00:03 [#02523063]
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it's occurred to me that saccade eye movements are deeply
intertwined with any given human's attention span. have your
eyes just flicked across the room to something else? then,
yes, you've probably switched from one mental context to
another.

to say i like driving to music is like saying that jesus "is
kind of popular." it is something that i am deeply
passionate about, and do most every day.... and when i talk
about it, most people get what i mean (especially if they
smoke weed).

i tend to lose people, however, when i start describing how
consciously trying to flick your eyes around to the beat
naturally foments a more rhythmic sense of planning in any
individual


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-07-07 01:43 [#02524159]
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today, hiking, the mosquitos were fierce. as a bonafide
mouth-breather with excellent blood, i was getting mobbed
(even with DEET repellant!).

breathing through your noise helps -- the winning formula
would seem to be, "in through the nose (from the stomach),
out through the mouth (blowing like one would do to blow out
a candle)." i don't know why this works, but it does. you're
welcome.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-07-07 12:40 [#02524169]
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"meanwhile, i suspect my car has a slipping metaphor in
its
serpentine belt. serpentine belt. i loved that name.
then i got down to business: how many subsystems does it
run? what are they? power steering, oil pump, brakes,
compressor, altergigger... water pump? oh, no, it's that
shit where the owner's manual explains to you what the
steering wheel is for and the service manual is not on the
internet. fucking fuck. how is power steered, anyways? more

or less, i decided it was time to start learning cars. i
hear this problem in there and it's not a real problem yet,

just a noise that shouldn't be a noise at this stage in the

car's lifespan. even taking my approach to driving into
account...

but, yes, here's the joke: what makes the engine work? the
serpentine belt. the engine would die without the oil
pump... it'd need a jump without the altergigger... it'd
overheat without a water pump, if yours does that... if not,

the altergigger does that too; same thing... brakes? who
needs those

yes, saying consciousness is what makes the mind work is
like saying the serpentine belt is what makes my engine
work. it's better than saying it's what makes my car move
(oh, god makes the sky blue, dear)"


i am currently at the dealership, getting a new serpentine
belt, amongst other things. my sevice Id integer today is
1331. i trust this belt will serve me well.


 

offline Tussle Toss from United States on 2017-07-08 02:07 [#02524229]
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love u


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-07-08 20:21 [#02524300]
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thx. u2


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-07-08 20:32 [#02524301]
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i would like to relate an incident in which lewis was trying
to explain his concept idea to me. he began with something
about a TV remote that docked into an inductive charger.

"so there's a disposable tv remote with an inductive charger
and it talks to our cell phone app with a web page running
bsd"

"uhh... what does that have to do with a tv remote with an
inductive charger?"

"the tv remote talks to the cell phone app and you can make
money off of ads and..."

"what does that have to do with a tv remote with an
inductive charger?"

"the remote runs everything and changes the channel and
talks to your cell phone and..."

...and on we went. there were some tangents, though:

"what? you want to run the whole system off of a disposable
TV remote? something someone could drop in his beer? or that
three year-olds will use as a hockey puck? you're going to
have to build the heck out of this thing. and still make it
disposable?"

"well, it's encased in lucite."

"oh, ok"

"...and the remote changes the channel on your TV and has a
web page and..."

i was torn between losing it in giggles and wanting to
throttle him. i settled on asking the same question over and
over, to see what would happen:

"what does that have to do with a tv remote with an
inductive charger?"

every time, i got a small fractal ramble tree that grew a
bit differently each time. after five or six of these, i
actually started to get a bit of a signal out of it, like
some process where one repeatedly sends a crappy fax image
of a bunch of scribbles, and then a computer algorithm adds
all the crappy fax images together into something you can
actually read. most people would have just tried to send off
one idea at a time, but i got sixteen or twenty eight or
some larger interger from lewis


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-07-13 00:08 [#02524833]
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i just had a very lovely experience driving to thips tiptter
traq, table-flipping vippe. it is ideally suited for my car's
automatic transmission, as well as the rises and lulls in
the need for fuel.

six-thirty on a highway that is massively over-capacity: two
lanes, under construction, with some of the most brutally
agressive driving i've ever seen, with the possible
exception of the rotary around the arch de trioompf in
paris.

i have known this highway my whole life. i know these audi
people. none of it particularly phases me anymore. i have
even come to respect it, in a sense: these people are very,
very good drivers... and, currently, they are insane with
frenzy: they're jammed into a tight space. they're late for
dinner. it's about to start raining cats and dogs...

i let it wash around me like water. audis surge in out of
nowhere and cut me off. it's actually rather soothing to
watch them just sweep in like clockwork. i know their
rhythms.

having warmed up, i loop back 'round the other direction,
and start driving more properly as table-flipping vip drops.
light rain; i am really into it. feeling the click points
where my car will shift gears; tipper's music simply catches
you like magic.

an suv in the other lane noticed -- and in a lovely way. the
driver kept an eye on me, got his foot tapping along
somehow, and began matching my surges... then riffing. it
reminded me of one of those animations of wind where two
gusts kind of struggle to surge past each other in sort a
taut drifiting motion... then rain started proper and i
reached my exit


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-07-13 00:13 [#02524834]
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car story bro.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-07-17 20:37 [#02525207]
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The TrueNorth system is flexible, in that it can be
programmed to implement networks of different sizes and
shapes, and scalable, in that many chips can be tiled
together easily. “It’s a new paradigm in scaling,”
says Dharmendra Modha, IBM’s chief scientist for
brain-inspired computing. Referring to the outer layer of
the brain, he says, “this is how cortex itself scales its
computation, essentially.” And the chip is efficient. For
the Science paper, the IBM team used the chip to identify
people, bicycles, and cars in a video of a street scene. A
software simulation of TrueNorth running on a traditional
microprocessor used 176,000 times as much power. “This is
really a time where the whole technology is evolving and
dramatically improving,” Modha says. "It will get better
not by percentage points but by orders and orders of
magnitude.”


LAZY_CRISP


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-10-12 01:43 [#02533815]
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the act of comprehending language requires a certain amount
of thinking about every word coming at you. in order to read
this sentence and comprehend it, you simply must have
thought about guitars, because i just mentioned guitars.

i figure most everyone can easily recall a time when
someone's told them "i didn't want to tell you, because i
knew you'd be upset."

say you smoke. your friend does not approve of smoking. you
don't smoke when they're around.... but, you also have to be
very careful to avoid mentioning you do smoke, because if
you do, you know what you'll get -- a lecture, nannying,
whatever...

then you get into the really troublesome nonsense: say you
really want to talk about something that's bothering you.
you can see your buddy had a long day, too. do you burden
him with this crap?

now we're in proper shit with "does venting actually help?"
and "even if venting works, can anyone listen to you vent
without getting emotionally dragged down with you?"

perhaps that's just how relationships work -- a byzantine
network of tripwires and handshake agreements where i sit
there and feel terrible about your bad day when i've had a
good day so you'll care about me enough to sit there and
feel terrible about my day when i've had a bad day

i beleive they call this "empathy" -- when someone tells you
some bad shit that happened to them, and you comprehend it,
you feel a bit shit too

i think this is mostly a problem when everyone's having bad
days, but people rarely want to vent about good days, so...


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-10-12 21:07 [#02533876]
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this morning, jogging in da woods, my attention was solidly
split between coaching the form in my knees and dodging the
huge piles of horses*** on the trail.

the leaves have started to come down, making things a real
minefield out there. one section is so bad i have to come to
a dead stop and hopscotch on top of tree roots. it's a
straightaway after a real steep uphill climb; i figure the
horses are all "thank god" when they get to the top and let
'er rip.

by hopping across roots, i can dodge most of the shit, but i
always wind up getting some on my shoes, no matter what i
do. this seems an apt metaphor for life.

something on the side of the trail catches my eye. i stop,
crouch down, and examine it: a blue nerf dart. i sniff the
air. i pick up the dart. then, in my best politically
incorrect indian voice, i say to the woods: "three kids.
major nerf battle columbus day weekend. kid with brown hair,
lose badly."

then i put the dart back down and finish my run.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-12 22:09 [#02533904]
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no one gives a shit


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-10-12 22:26 [#02533918]
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that's why it's in the bullshit thread, yes. i'm trying to
chart my personal progress as a self-indulgent andy kaufman
knock-off.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-12 22:28 [#02533921]
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i didnt even read the post, but i was sure you would come up
with a decent reply.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-10-12 22:32 [#02533923]
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that's how i do


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-12 22:59 [#02533927]
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good to know


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-10-12 23:00 [#02533928]
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know shit.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-12 23:22 [#02533933]
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exactly. you write and you write and you write and you know
truly shit.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-10-12 23:34 [#02533935]
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i am write about shit, know shit, danke schoen.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-13 18:08 [#02533983]
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i bet you aint even capable to come out of this


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-13 19:46 [#02533987]
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do it for a lol?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-13 20:08 [#02533992]
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yeah, nevermind if this is for your personal health or
wellbeing


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-13 20:11 [#02533993]
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i dont give a fuck really, this site is not mine, im just
doing my community service


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2017-10-13 20:19 [#02533994]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-11-03 23:14 [#02536555]
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EVOL_UTION

"As test cases, they used well-known examples of changes
in English. First, they looked at past-tense verbs. In most
cases, we form the simple past tense by adding -ed onto the
end of a word, like type → typed or like → liked. But
there are some irregular cases, like write → wrote and
sleep → slept. And then there are the in-betweens: do you
say sneaked or snuck? Spilled or spilt?

The researchers searched a linguistic corpus, which is a
gigantic database of real-world language use, to track verbs
that have two possible past-tense forms. They found 36 of
them, which collectively popped up more than 700,000 times
in the corpus. For each of the verbs, they tested
statistically whether the pattern of change over the last
200 years looked more like random chance or like the result
of selection by people who were biased toward one form or
the other."



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-11-03 23:17 [#02536556]
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this actually makes a lot of sense -- according to this
article, people spoke english like yoda 900 years ago, and
yoda was at least 900 by the time Empire Strikes Back was in
theatres...

...theaters?

ptheeee. aaate. errrrs


 

offline Tussle Toss from United States on 2017-11-04 03:40 [#02536561]
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Too many people worry about what they say, out of fear for
what others think.. but honestly does it matter? We're all
gonna die. Epic here will die.. and everything he said will
be 1000% more profound when that happens. I'm likely to be
dead soon too, I can feel it in me bonez

but anyway

I'm truly worried for the future of electronic music if
anyone out there doesn't know who I am.. who gives a shit
anyway.

This is for nevenen and anyone else with a heart and brain
still out there LAZY_TITLE


 


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