Is it odd for that to make me want to go to Australia more? Also, clock spiders are not that dangerous from what I remember, so that seems out of place.
There is a few lines there that sound terribly, terribly familiar. Terribly familiar.
Why, Churba, could you perhaps be referring to, "Most engineers are as sensible and reasonable as anyone. But engineers as a group have a noted, and indeed quantified, tendency to pontificate on things well outside their area of expertise, to the point of actual fallacy...The phenomenon also applies to some fields of computer science..."?
There is a few lines there that sound terribly, terribly familiar. Terribly familiar.
Why, Churba, could you perhaps be referring to, "Most engineers are as sensible and reasonable as anyone. But engineers as a group have a noted, and indeed quantified, tendency to pontificate on things well outside their area of expertise, to the point of actual fallacy...The phenomenon also applies to some fields of computer science..."?
In fact, as you may have deducted, I am very subtly taking the piss out of Scott. As much as I think he's a bloody good man with some very intelligent ideas and wise opinions, it doesn't mean I can't give him a friendly poke from time to time about his less well thought out habits and ideas. As anyone is able to do so about me, or anyone else here.
Though, I am very familiar with the examples presented at the end of the article, too. And I'll be the first to say, my father and I both do the same thing, though I'm thankful that watching it bite my father on the arse too many times did curtail my own habit of doing so, at least somewhat.
Also, if you click through to their page on Ray Kurzweil, you're likely to have a good laugh. As if the mere concept of flooding delicate human brain tissue with impossible micromachines generating (relatively) tremendous amounts of heat wasn't ridiculous enough to give you a laugh, that is.
You'd think Kurzweil would be a smarter than that, but no. Guy can help invent OCR, but he can't understand physics of scale...
Heh, yeah, there's that quote from Hofsadter again. I think one of my more annoying moments recently was when I used that line in reference to another topic, and my ever-trendy sister tried to correct me from "Douglas Hofstadter" to "Leonard Hofstadter", the character from the popular Nerd Blackface/sitcom, Big Bang Theory.
But yeah, I know of Kurzweil. Fantastically intelligent, but that doesn't stop him from being a complete and utter loon.
I think one of my more annoying moments recently was when I used that line in reference to another topic, and my ever-trendy sister tried to correct me from "Douglas Hofstadter" to "Leonard Hofstadter", the character from the popular Nerd Blackface/sitcom, Big Bang Theory.
I like the idea of that Zelda painting, but Link's head is twisted in a weird way compared to his body, and his stance is a bit off, and his hat is coloured in a way that makes it stand out strangely. Every time I look at it, my brain has to consciously work out what is going on there. It's quite disturbing.
The problem is the amorphous and poorly defined silhouette. If that whole shape was blacked out you wouldn't be able to even tell that it was a person, let alone a particular character.
Oh geez, I completely forgot about this! I was at the Coraline panel at SDCC back in 2009 where Henry Selick straight-up said to Neil Gaiman that he'd adapt The Graveyard Book, and the crowd went wild... glad to see he's following through with it!
I want to get off MR BONES WILD RIDE. >:( I'm lost. >:( I'm hungry. >:( I'm thirsty. >:( I want to go home. >:( I have the strangest feeling someone is watching me. >:(
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Though, I am very familiar with the examples presented at the end of the article, too. And I'll be the first to say, my father and I both do the same thing, though I'm thankful that watching it bite my father on the arse too many times did curtail my own habit of doing so, at least somewhat.
You'd think Kurzweil would be a smarter than that, but no. Guy can help invent OCR, but he can't understand physics of scale...
But yeah, I know of Kurzweil. Fantastically intelligent, but that doesn't stop him from being a complete and utter loon.
Why yes Ryan, I did find this via your Facebook.
I'm lost. >:(
I'm hungry. >:(
I'm thirsty. >:(
I want to go home. >:(
I have the strangest feeling someone is watching me. >:(
A sweater for math nuts. Can you figure it out before you click?