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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Bit Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:54 am

Twelve significant bit-sequences —

Twelve basis vectors, in lexicographic order, for the binary Golay-code space

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Lurching Into the Lexicon

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:25 am

See as well a 2019 Neal Stephenson novel —

FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL .

From a New York Times  review of that novel:  

"Early choices, or sometimes relatively arbitrary initial conditions,
end up shaping future events and technologies. In this case,
the cosmology, topography and even the theology of an entire
universe — Bitworld — affect Meatspace, and the two realms
are linked in a feedback loop of cause and effect, resources and
outcomes (dollars, computing power)." 

— Charles Yu, June 14, 2019

Friday, June 21, 2013

Lexicon

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

From the final pages of the new novel
Lexicon , by Max Barry:

"… a fundamental language
of the human mind—
the tongue in which the human animal
speaks to itself at the basest level.
The machine language, in essence…."

"… the questions raised by
this underlying lexicon.
What are its words?
How many are there? ….
Can we learn to speak them?
What does it sound like
when who we are is expressed
in its most fundamental form?
Something to think about."

       R. Lowell

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IMAGE- Hypokeimenon in Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon

"… the clocks were striking thirteen." — 1984

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