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I *heart* W. Daniel Hillis href="http://web.ask.com/redir?bpg=http%3a%2f%2fweb.ask.com %2fweb%3fq%3ddanny%2bhillis%26o%3d8002%26page%3d1&q=danny+h illis&u=http%3a%2f%2ftm.wc.ask.com%2fr%3ft%3dan%26s%3da%26u id%3d09E6D6C23005ED7F3%26sid%3d1A8637C23005ED7F3%26qid%3dA3 96BBD51370664894B8944952A0D8B3%26io%3d7%26sv%3dza5cb0def%26 ask%3ddanny%2bhillis%26uip%3d42341fe4%26en%3dte%26eo%3d-100 %26pt%3dSPECIAL%2bRELATIVITY%253a%2bWHY%2bCAN'T%2bYOU%2bGO% 2bFASTER%2bTHAN%2bLIGHT%253f%2b%2526%2523151%253b%2bAn%2bEs say%26ac%3d20%26qs%3d0%26pg%3d1%26u%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.edge .org%2f3rd_culture%2fhillis%2f&s=a&bu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.edge .org%2f3rd_culture%2fhillis%2f ">Lizank |
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a href yo mama, bitch! |
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Danny Hillis is such a genius... Get thyself ot Google and see for yourself... |
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Is he as good as a ? I splashed out on this, and found it a complete tissue of lies! Mr. Wank's made a total fist of things, and needs to get a firm grip on himself. The whole book oozes unprofessionalism, and I certainly won't be shooting off to the book shop to buy his next issue! I know this criticism might leave the author rubbing his head, but next time he bashes one out he should keep his eye open & try putting a little more spunk into it! |
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Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Daaaamn, that wasn't just a silly little joke... it was an elaborate extremely well thought out hilarious pun-fest! Good lord... heh heh, *whew* Jand- I'm still reading "a new kind of science". .. he's finally getting around to applying his thoughts about simple programs to real life/nature... He must have said "indeed" and "in this book" 575 times each. He made sure he told us the date he thought up the 4 classifications of programs "class 4" etc, so the history books would be accurate when they honor his revolutionary breakthrough lol. It is getting interesting though, plus I guess wolfram and hillis have shared ideas before or something since hillis gives thanks, I believe to wolfram in his connection machine book. I don't know why the links don't work, but just do a search in "askjeeves.com" and the 2 links should be somewhere on the first page of results, if anyone's interested. |
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a href yo mama, bitch! ghetto punkout in true HTML fashion. i like =) |
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I also called my link "lizink" which is ghetto to the mizax. I think you're supposed to to this supposedly snoop dogg style decorative word spicing upage to more ghettoy words in particular like trash: trizash, but I'm not sure really. |
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wmw...I'm just about to start my 3rd re-read of Wolframs huge tome.... it's an area I've been into for ages (and Wolfram himself visited my old alife site; hehe...my only claim to fame..)... Let me know how you get on...it's tough going in place but well worth the investment.... BTW theres a great book called, I think, Patterns in the Stone by Hillis ...again recommended (and a lot lot thinner than Wolframs...)...if you wanna understand exactly how computers work at a very fundemental level, explained in simple plain english.... |
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Where is your artificial life site? I already bought pattern on the stone and love it. I didn't know shit about computers and that book explains it very nicely at the most fundamental level of functional abstraction. Making a computer out of tinker toys and (fishing string?) is awesome. |
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Used to be at G3RM.ORG...until the domain got kidnapped :(.... but I've got some pieces at ...check down the botton of the link list on the left... (Nothing that special...just a flash version of Game of Life & Langtons Ant...plus some anims a la my avatar)...... I've been playing with Proce55ing recently; a great little JAVA enviroment especially made for doing graphic experiments....should have some new stuff online soon... |
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Oh yeah...Steven Levys Artifical Life is another great book...best intro to the subject, altho it's a few years old now.... (I've got a few others so will dig out some titles for ya...)... |
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Here's another that's a MUST READ, wMw... OUT OF CONTROL (The New Biology of Machines) by Kevin Kelly (the old editor of WIRED).... (Apparently this was one of the books they made Keneau (sp?) read as part of preparing for The Matrix....) |
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Thanks a lot, will definately check these out. I find amazon.com great for finding good books based on the quality reviews as you probably know. I found the meme machine by susan blackmore and code: the hidden language of computer hardware and software on amazon. I was a little skeptical about the first part of the meme machine, but it gets quite interesting near the end with the idea of the selfplex and stuff. I'm only like 1/4 of the way through "code" but it's great so far. It was cool seeing some wolfram-esque programs actually taking place on your site rather than frozen on a page. Come to think of it, the cellular automata ones wouldn't be that interesting to watch progress anyway since it would essentially be equivalent to loading the full picture one row at a time. But there are plenty of interesting things to do with computers... I want to learn programming and will someday most likely. My interest is usually peaked with ideas involving evolution, which is in my opinion the most fantastic universal process/phenomenon period, or at least that anyone knows of. The idea of having machines/computers/programs undergo an artificial evolution seems awesome to me. With massively parrallel computers, it might be seriously possible and fairly near in the future, though I havn't read anything about parrallel computers since 1980 when hillis's company "thinking machines" existed. |
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