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55 places you can download tens of thousands books, plays and other literary texts completely legally for free
https://nothingintherulebook.com/2017/01/10/55-places-you-can-download-tens-of-thousands-books-plays-and-other-literary-texts-completely-legally-for-free/
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Nice wikipedia snippet | Arcology
"An arcology is distinguished from a merely large building in that it is designed to lessen the impact of human habitation on any given ecosystem. It could be self-sustainable, employing all or most of its own available resources for a comfortable life: power; climate control; food production; air and water conservation and purification; sewage treatment; etc. An arcology is designed to make it possible to supply those items for a large population. An arcology would supply and maintain its own municipal or urban infrastructures in order to operate and connect with other urban environments apart from its own.
Arcology was proposed to reduce human impact on natural resources. Arcology designs might apply conventional building and civil engineering techniques in very large, but practical projects in order to achieve pedestrian economies of scale that have proven, post-automobile, to be difficult to achieve in other ways." -arcology wikipedia source
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Computer Generates Human Faces
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Some suggest the brain itself only uses about 50 dimensions
"Using macaque monkeys as a model system, the researchers inserted electrodes into the brains that could record individual signals from single face cells within the face patches. They found that each face cell fired in proportion to the projection of a face onto a single axis in the 50-dimensional face space. Knowing these axes, the researchers then developed an algorithm that could decode additional faces from neural responses.
In other words, they could now show the monkey an arbitrary new face, and recreate the face that the monkey was seeing from electrical activity of face cells in the animal’s brain. When placed side by side, the photos that the monkeys were shown and the faces that were recreated using the algorithm were nearly identical. Face cells from only two of the face patches–106 cells in one patch and 99 cells in another–were enough to reconstruct the faces. “People always say a picture is worth a thousand words,” Tsao says. “But I like to say that a picture of a face is worth about 200 neurons.”
http://www.kurzweilai.net/researchers-decipher-how-faces-are-encoded-in-the-brain
Comment on the perfect soldier
I would say the perfect soldier is not one who fights in exchange for paradise, but it is one that is willing to defend the cause even if he himself and his loved ones were sentenced as a result to a fate worse than death.
In a posthuman world, capture by the enemy might mean an eternity of suffering, only those willing to accept said fate might be able to stand against the enemies of the good.
Even now, threats to family and friends, threats to one's own fate, keep good men from raising their hands against evil. But one who embraces the truth, may be willing to forgo the consequences of fate, to do what is right.
In a posthuman world, capture by the enemy might mean an eternity of suffering, only those willing to accept said fate might be able to stand against the enemies of the good.
Even now, threats to family and friends, threats to one's own fate, keep good men from raising their hands against evil. But one who embraces the truth, may be willing to forgo the consequences of fate, to do what is right.
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Nice quotes | LEXX SERIES
Kai:
His Shadow!
His Shadow!
His Divine Shadow:
His Divine Shadow. Yes.
His Divine Shadow. Yes.
Kai:
The Brunnen-G will defeat you!
The Brunnen-G will defeat you!
His Divine Shadow:
I did not think so. The power of order has destroyed your planet. The power of order will destroy you. And you are the last of the Brunnen-G left alive.
I did not think so. The power of order has destroyed your planet. The power of order will destroy you. And you are the last of the Brunnen-G left alive.
Kai:
The Time Prophet has seen your order destroyed by the Brunnen-G.
The Time Prophet has seen your order destroyed by the Brunnen-G.
His Divine Shadow:
The Time Prophet's vision appears to be flawed.
The Time Prophet's vision appears to be flawed.
[Stabs Kai in the chest with a dagger]
[an officer steps forward as His Shadow looks to him]
Foreshadow Officer:
We will incinerate the carcass.
We will incinerate the carcass.
His Divine Shadow:
No. This last specimen of the now extinct culture of romantic dreamers merits punishment beyond death. Transport him to the bio-scholars.
No. This last specimen of the now extinct culture of romantic dreamers merits punishment beyond death. Transport him to the bio-scholars.
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https://www.quotes.net/movies/lexx%3A_the_dark_zone_104165Wednesday, January 9, 2019
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