Post AWDQ4vmZbohmaWOW12 by Batronyx@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AWDNS5m8K1UENWXbea by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:03:45Z
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Library of Babel, if completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10*(4677) bookshttps://libraryofbabel.info
(DIR) Post #AWDNXyCHPWgSc1Zcwa by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:04:37Z
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Basically everything you ever thought or will think is already been 'written' It just has to be looked up!Even your exact death is somewhere in here....
(DIR) Post #AWDNwk0LJbndpnnmaW by BunRab@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:09:19Z
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@stux But, like The Nine Billion Names of God, what happens when it's complete?
(DIR) Post #AWDO3GWZJvcwQjzDuK by Krazov@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:10:22Z
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@stux, it reminded me of this dialogue from "Factotum:"Pickle Factory Boss: Writer, huh? Are you sure?Chinaski: No, I'm not. I'm halfway through a novel.Pickle Factory Boss: What's it about?Chinaski: Everything.Pickle Factory Boss: It's about... cancer?Chinaski: Yes.Pickle Factory Boss: How about my wife?Chinaski: She's in there too.
(DIR) Post #AWDOA13JF8BWTKWGyO by sharan@metalhead.club
2023-05-31T13:06:54Z
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@stux thank you. For the last sentence. 🤣
(DIR) Post #AWDOGFYWEUVJBu5eD2 by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2023-05-31T13:13:04Z
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@stux Have you read the story?
(DIR) Post #AWDOHK3eykd7RbARua by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:11:58Z
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@sharan saawry :blobcatgiggle:
(DIR) Post #AWDOLW4MGNfxr3Ug64 by bonkers@nerdculture.de
2023-05-31T13:07:49Z
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@stux isn't it more combinations than atoms in our Galaxy?
(DIR) Post #AWDOWMU8EnaDJaikZE by baykanguru@todon.eu
2023-05-31T13:10:28Z
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@stux now is the time to decide if random number generators can be considered entities that can infringe copyright :)Oh, what was that chatgpt thing again?
(DIR) Post #AWDOZRXxsH8bsmz0Yi by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:16:07Z
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@Sbectol Watch this small part! :cat_hug_triangle: https://youtu.be/GDrBIKOR01c?t=1050
(DIR) Post #AWDOmDU7T4ee2DH7WS by Anarkat@anarchism.space
2023-05-31T13:12:06Z
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@stuxAh, yes, we've finally done it.The monkeys on the typewriters.
(DIR) Post #AWDOnA0NtGvTX4ohrk by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:17:34Z
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For anyone who likes a quick and easy explainWatch this:https://youtu.be/GDrBIKOR01c?t=1050
(DIR) Post #AWDOrjm0qaB5ckHEtU by calculsoberic@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:19:33Z
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@stux Is it in ciphertext?
(DIR) Post #AWDOts0nBiQrkoCuG1 by MissingThePt@mastodon.social
2023-05-31T13:13:45Z
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@stux https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/109551489817469288
(DIR) Post #AWDOvKCxq9e3Ucatiy by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:19:44Z
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@mansr can't find it :blobcatgiggle:
(DIR) Post #AWDP3tKR9A8KjZAraq by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2023-05-31T13:22:03Z
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@stux It's in the Ficciones collection.
(DIR) Post #AWDPJTwRIqVodANqwS by MissingThePt@mastodon.social
2023-05-31T13:17:52Z
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@stux
(DIR) Post #AWDPQ59hr593mkjiu8 by quincy@chaos.social
2023-05-31T13:19:05Z
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@stuxNow someone just has to come up with an indexing system to find only the interesting and true entries!Then it would be a piece of cake to use it to predict the future, retrodict the past, dict the present and generally be in the know.
(DIR) Post #AWDPpWFEH9aZ2YRtxI by Batronyx@mastodon.social
2023-05-31T13:23:24Z
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@stux I don't know if I buy that. Where did they get the 1,312,000 figure.Theoretically with the ability to repeat characters, that upper limit would be infinite, Though I concede at a certain point some repetitions might be pointles, but what have they established as an upper limit? Is the long scream into the void contained therein? "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh! <- (Charlie Brown ending)The about page didn't say.
(DIR) Post #AWDQ4vmZbohmaWOW12 by Batronyx@mastodon.social
2023-05-31T13:25:08Z
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@stux OH! Thanks for the link to the deeper explanation!
(DIR) Post #AWDQAhqAMGIR5KpRJo by quincy@chaos.social
2023-05-31T13:26:06Z
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@stuxand it's still within the purview of the ministry of finite affairs!
(DIR) Post #AWDQUagueGWOhgyxZw by Myerman@toot.bldrweb.org
2023-05-31T13:28:25Z
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@stux don’t forget diacritics for the rest of the European languages - but how are you going to handle Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Japanese etc?
(DIR) Post #AWDRBf1oOnhqbhILqK by Corax42@mastodon.social
2023-05-31T13:41:39Z
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@stux All of that information is already encoded in Chaitin's constant, and very likely in other numbers like π, e, and √2.
(DIR) Post #AWDRkATPzbkFyjf6LA by canayjun@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T13:51:54Z
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@stux I’m reading City at the End of Time by Greg Bear (2008) - the library of Babel is in there. (And the Librarian) Fascinating read.
(DIR) Post #AWDe5bdZOOz5kyOoLY by Pat@qoto.org
2023-05-31T16:10:22Z
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@calculsoberic @stux And he didn't even need an infinite number of monkeys. :ablobthinking: 😆 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Infinite_number_of_monkeys- - - -Accessible description of image:old black and white photo of a chimpanzee sitting at a very old manual typewriter, his hands are up near the keys. the photo is taken from the side and he is looking away from the typewriter off to the left of the camera.
(DIR) Post #AWDhBExYv5SV1W82VM by icg937@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T16:44:53Z
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@stux You should watch the image library too. Every screenshot, movie footage, the weddings of your great grand children, the discovery of America by Columbus, etc. is in there :blob_aww: