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Strange ... the translation here is Mun-Ha .... but then again, wikipedia says he IS from ancient egypt =P
sixteen-bit
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Apple had a concept for a touch schreen phone in 1983
Still Can't see it, she always spins in one direction
Hatredcopter
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Frustrated_me
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Nice.
Awesome, gotta love Pixar
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Woah.
bengraven
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119 Amazing Facts
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/112207
3. The 3 Musketeers bar was originally split into three pieces with three different flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. When the other flavors became harder to come by during World War II, Mars decided to go all chocolate.
10. Carly Simons dad is the Simon of Simon and Schuster. He co-founded the company.
11. When the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was issued a passport. Ramses occupation? King (deceased).
14. Reno is farther west than Los Angeles
17. While many believe Hydrox cookies are an Oreo knock-off, Hydrox actually came firstin 1908, four years before the Oreo.
29. The string on boxes of animal crackers was originally placed there so the container could be hung from a Christmas tree.
30. Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys. (Go ahead and try typing the other 49 states. Well wait.)
47. Jason Schwartzmans mom is Talia Shire. (WHAAAAAAT?!!?!? adrian?)
57. When Coca-Cola announced the return of Cokes original formula in 1985, ABC News interrupted General Hospital to break the story.
62. The Procrastinators Club of America newsletter is called Last Months Newsletter.
66. The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
95. For $45, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing will sell you a 5-lb bag with $10,000 worth of shredded U.S. currency.
111. The Corduroy Appreciation Club celebrated 11-11-11 as The Day That Most Resembles Corduroy. (look at the fact number)
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/112207
3. The 3 Musketeers bar was originally split into three pieces with three different flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. When the other flavors became harder to come by during World War II, Mars decided to go all chocolate.
10. Carly Simons dad is the Simon of Simon and Schuster. He co-founded the company.
11. When the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was issued a passport. Ramses occupation? King (deceased).
14. Reno is farther west than Los Angeles
17. While many believe Hydrox cookies are an Oreo knock-off, Hydrox actually came firstin 1908, four years before the Oreo.
29. The string on boxes of animal crackers was originally placed there so the container could be hung from a Christmas tree.
30. Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys. (Go ahead and try typing the other 49 states. Well wait.)
47. Jason Schwartzmans mom is Talia Shire. (WHAAAAAAT?!!?!? adrian?)
57. When Coca-Cola announced the return of Cokes original formula in 1985, ABC News interrupted General Hospital to break the story.
62. The Procrastinators Club of America newsletter is called Last Months Newsletter.
66. The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
95. For $45, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing will sell you a 5-lb bag with $10,000 worth of shredded U.S. currency.
111. The Corduroy Appreciation Club celebrated 11-11-11 as The Day That Most Resembles Corduroy. (look at the fact number)
Chuckie
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I didn't know she was a Coppola either? First Nicholas Cage, now Talia... is everyone a Coppola?
Garfield comics are so similar in setup that this is the average of every single one from 2007:
Note how Garfield, Jon and the text seem to always appear in pretty much the same places.
(From Square root of Minus Garfield)
Note how Garfield, Jon and the text seem to always appear in pretty much the same places.
(From Square root of Minus Garfield)
sixteen-bit
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I think this was discussed in a episode of Put This On
Hatredcopter
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Hatredcopter
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Choppasmith
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I just made an interesting little discovery in Pixar's Night and Day short.
The little guy appears in pitch darkness before the Walt Disney logo appears and after the Pixar logo fades out and before the short starts
Before Disney logo:
After Pixar logo fades out:
The little guy appears in pitch darkness before the Walt Disney logo appears and after the Pixar logo fades out and before the short starts
Before Disney logo:
After Pixar logo fades out:
Baconsaurus Rex
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That's fucking creepy
Melchiah
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MMaRsu
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VERY COOL
From that site:
The same is true of any establishment serving "Krab", as in a Chinese restaurant serving "Krab Ragoon". It isn't real Crab meat, it might not even be real meat. Either way I'm glad I don't eat it.
Zombie James
Banned
Sorry about this bump...but I blew my own mind today. Fuck.
So I was thinking about permutations of possibilities. Like, think about the old saying that there are more possible moves on a chess board than there are atoms in the universe. I could never wrap my head around that, even though I've seen the equations to prove that.
Well, how about we imagined an old, black and white tv. 640 x 480 pixels that can be black, white and say for the sake of argument, 10 shades of gray in between. That is enough variation to basically represent anything I like. I can take a picture of myself and display it on the screen no problem. In fact, I could play a modern video game on a black and white SD TV with the right adapter. From the perspective of any given pixel, it is simply becoming one color out of a possible 12. From the perspective of a pixel, the image on the over-all screen is arbitrary. We view images as representations of some reality. So again, if I take my picture and display it on the screen, ultimately it is an arbitrary assortment of colored pixels, but to me, its perceived as my face!
640 x 480 with 12 potential colors. We are dealing with small numbers, certainly nothing approaching infinity. There is only so many possible permutations each pixel can take, but with so many pixels, the possibilities are staggering.
Let's think about creating some program that maps every single variation of pixel color for every pixel on the screen, so in essence, every possible screen the TV can have (which again, is an arbitrary assortment of 307, 200 pixels with 12 colors) and stores it in some massive data bank. Imagine there is a quantum computer capable of instantly accessing any image created.
Imagine the screen starting with a totally white screen. Ok, that's easy. Next permutation, a single black pixel in the corner. That's easy. Ok, then that pixel shifts over to the right one pixel, again easy. Eventually you would have a permutation of 2 black pixels in a sea of white pixels. Eventually 2 black pixels and 2 gray scale etc etc. You can eventually have a permutation of say, a ring of black pixels, basically a circle being displayed. Ok so far that's all easy stuff to imagine when creating random possible screens.
Well, ultimately, if you really store every possible value, every single possible pattern the screen can display, you will ultimately store representations of all possible observable phenomenon in the universe. Again, let's go back and picture a quantum computer with google search that can match any image on that data base. I take a picture of myself and place it on a black and white TV. The computer will find a perfect match represented in the data base. If I were to invite Heidi Klum to my house, and kiss her, take a picture and display it on the TV, again, a perfect match can be found in the data base. My signature would be found. All frames of all movies ever filmed would be represented. The exact scene of my death from all possible angles could be found. If Aliens landed 1,000 years from now, and you could take a picture and display it on an SD TV, again, a perfect match could be found dated 1000 years before their landing.
FUCK.
So I was thinking about permutations of possibilities. Like, think about the old saying that there are more possible moves on a chess board than there are atoms in the universe. I could never wrap my head around that, even though I've seen the equations to prove that.
Well, how about we imagined an old, black and white tv. 640 x 480 pixels that can be black, white and say for the sake of argument, 10 shades of gray in between. That is enough variation to basically represent anything I like. I can take a picture of myself and display it on the screen no problem. In fact, I could play a modern video game on a black and white SD TV with the right adapter. From the perspective of any given pixel, it is simply becoming one color out of a possible 12. From the perspective of a pixel, the image on the over-all screen is arbitrary. We view images as representations of some reality. So again, if I take my picture and display it on the screen, ultimately it is an arbitrary assortment of colored pixels, but to me, its perceived as my face!
640 x 480 with 12 potential colors. We are dealing with small numbers, certainly nothing approaching infinity. There is only so many possible permutations each pixel can take, but with so many pixels, the possibilities are staggering.
Let's think about creating some program that maps every single variation of pixel color for every pixel on the screen, so in essence, every possible screen the TV can have (which again, is an arbitrary assortment of 307, 200 pixels with 12 colors) and stores it in some massive data bank. Imagine there is a quantum computer capable of instantly accessing any image created.
Imagine the screen starting with a totally white screen. Ok, that's easy. Next permutation, a single black pixel in the corner. That's easy. Ok, then that pixel shifts over to the right one pixel, again easy. Eventually you would have a permutation of 2 black pixels in a sea of white pixels. Eventually 2 black pixels and 2 gray scale etc etc. You can eventually have a permutation of say, a ring of black pixels, basically a circle being displayed. Ok so far that's all easy stuff to imagine when creating random possible screens.
Well, ultimately, if you really store every possible value, every single possible pattern the screen can display, you will ultimately store representations of all possible observable phenomenon in the universe. Again, let's go back and picture a quantum computer with google search that can match any image on that data base. I take a picture of myself and place it on a black and white TV. The computer will find a perfect match represented in the data base. If I were to invite Heidi Klum to my house, and kiss her, take a picture and display it on the TV, again, a perfect match can be found in the data base. My signature would be found. All frames of all movies ever filmed would be represented. The exact scene of my death from all possible angles could be found. If Aliens landed 1,000 years from now, and you could take a picture and display it on an SD TV, again, a perfect match could be found dated 1000 years before their landing.
FUCK.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Probably several millions of different pictures (at least with a different pixel) with Rage Faces were made this week. Now, just think about a computer wasting its time on that.
Hypothetical computer. Hypothetically speaking, if you could do an image search, you could find a comparable image to anything that can be imaged. Anything.
Its like when scientists talk of simulating the universe in its entirety to discover if time is deterministic or not. Not possible, but its a hypothetical situation. Goes something like this.
If you could perfectly re-create the initial starting conditions of this Universe a moment before the big bang and let the natural course of the Universe unfold over time, would everything that has ever occurred occur once again? If so, time is deterministic and randomness and therefore free will does not exist. If everything in the Universe is subtely different. Like, If I wasn't typing this right this moment, or shoot, if I didn't exist, then randomness exists and time is not deterministic.
That's 12^(640x480) possibilities. To write that down you would write a 3, then 331,524 zeros.
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
It's not the same thing exactly but it's interesting. That was the first thing your post reminded me of. (And then the monkeys and Shakespeare but whatever).
It's not the same thing exactly but it's interesting. That was the first thing your post reminded me of. (And then the monkeys and Shakespeare but whatever).
http://www.universetoday.com/36302/atoms-in-the-universe/
There are about 10 to the power of 82 atoms in the universe :O
Amazing.
Crazy.
Exclamation-One
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Does not compute.
So what if the computer can display anything? How does the computer know to "show me pictures of the planet Saturn wearing a red Santa hat" ?
How would it know what that looked like?
How does a computer search for anything? How does reverse image search work in google right now? Again, we're talking about a hypothetical computer to illustrate that a Saturn with a red santa hat existed in the data base in this scenario. It would exist whether or not one goes to search for it. That's how these hypothetical scenarios work, you just suspend disbelief so you can consider the implications of a thought experiment. Otherwise, the entire scenario is impossible. As is the Library of Babel. As is nearly all important thought experiments.
I think it was about looking for an exact match. But it was an hypothetical computer so it doesn't matter. I guess you could put some monkeys and make them go through every picture (they are finite) and teach them to put labels on them.
Exclamation-One
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What I'm saying is, there's no difference between this computer and our own collective imaginations. Both are equally powerful; no difference at all.
..what
What if I take a photo of an image, would there be a match for the photo?
In theory, if I keep taking photos of photos, it seems there would be infinite pictures but then there's only a finite amount of pictures in the computer so your computer can't display all images posibles.
I searched on Wikipedia and this came up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
Seems like in practice, at some point the image doesn't change because of the resolution.
I guess the problem comes with the resolution of your hypothetical computer. You would need an infinite resolution to display a picture of a picture of a picture and so on. But for that you would need infinite memory, which is fucking stupid, of course.
In theory, if I keep taking photos of photos, it seems there would be infinite pictures but then there's only a finite amount of pictures in the computer so your computer can't display all images posibles.
I searched on Wikipedia and this came up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
Seems like in practice, at some point the image doesn't change because of the resolution.
I guess the problem comes with the resolution of your hypothetical computer. You would need an infinite resolution to display a picture of a picture of a picture and so on. But for that you would need infinite memory, which is fucking stupid, of course.
Yeah ultimately my scenario is limited. For instance, you could find an image of a Super nova, but surface detail could be no smaller than a pixel. Though, every conceivable angle and scale would also exist but only in a separate "screen". The larger the resolution, the more information per screen. An infinite pixel display could display everything all at once with infinite permutations and fractal patterns (entire universe branching off to another identical universe in its entirety etc).
TacticalFox88
Banned
To the power of 82? That's it? I figured that number would be exponentially larger than that.
:/
Its a biiiiiiig number lol.
Another way to think of my thought experiment is this:
Imagine and SD TV connected to PC. When you turn on the TV the PC will send a signal and every pixel will show one color (black, white and 10 shades of gray). This is totally random.
What are the chances that in the completely random display of pixels, literally no thought whatsoever, no intelligent direction, you would see your own face? Like you turn it on and BOOM, there's a perfect picture of your face?
The odds are astronomical as Trouble gave us exact numbers but it is possible.
If you were to generate a random image and store it, but with the caveat that each image's exact pattern is never to repeat, until you have every possible permutation of an old black and white TV's screen is capable of displaying in a database, all observable phenomena of the universe would have a representation in our database.
deadhorse32
Bad Art
12/13 years ago, I actually wrote a little soft to make "all the possible picture" ... It was slow 
While the concept is cool (I didn't know The Library of Babel back then), it's not do-able. There are so much possibilities and not enough cpu time/harddrive space. But yeah, it's kind of mind blowing to realize that everything that can be display on a computer screen (at a fixed size/color) is a finite number
While the concept is cool (I didn't know The Library of Babel back then), it's not do-able. There are so much possibilities and not enough cpu time/harddrive space. But yeah, it's kind of mind blowing to realize that everything that can be display on a computer screen (at a fixed size/color) is a finite number
12/13 years ago, I actually wrote a little soft to make "all the possible picture" ... It was slow
While the concept is cool (I didn't know The Library of Babel back then), it's not do-able. There are so much possibilities and not enough cpu time/harddrive space. But yeah, it's kind of mind blowing to realize that everything that can be display on a computer screen (at a fixed size/color) is a finite number
Well a "all the possible chess moves" on an 8x8 chess board had more permutations than there are atoms in the universe. The computer screen in my scenario has over 300,000 squares
Cool to think about though.
InaudibleWhispa
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I was thinking about a family tree earlier, and started thinking about how quickly a large number of relatives would present themselves. If you consider 10 generations of your family, taking only parents into consideration (so your mom and dad, their mom and dad (your grandparents), your grandparents mom and dad etc) you'd have 1024 people. in 20 generations, 1,048,576 people and in 30 generations (approx 1000 years ago) 1,073,741,824 people.
Aside from the obvious implications that we're all related, and that there's an awful lot of incest going on since there are more names on your family tree than there are unique people that have ever existed, by quite a large amount, I think it also goes to show just how much you could potentially change if you go back in time and fuck up one persons life.
Aside from the obvious implications that we're all related, and that there's an awful lot of incest going on since there are more names on your family tree than there are unique people that have ever existed, by quite a large amount, I think it also goes to show just how much you could potentially change if you go back in time and fuck up one persons life.
Also, if you leave like 5 minutes late and cause a car crash where someone dies and they are the only child left in the family, you could end the line of another 30 generations of people. Or, simply, if you don't have kids and don't have a sibling.
Akibastman
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Rashida Jones (Parks & Recs, The Office, etc.) is the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton (Twin Peaks' Norma Jennings).
It blew my mind.
It blew my mind.
You are effectively committing genocide every time you masturbate!
The sheer size of that number is essentially incomprehensible.
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
And not just once, but twice at least. Once normal, once inverted.
Edit: Actually, a given phenomena will occur a lot of times on the screen that way. All possible camera rotations around the Z axis, all mirrorings, all field swaps with all possible grid subdivisions, all darkenings with all possible widths of bound pixels… And so on. If someone would apply all imaginable photoshop filters to a given base picture like that, all those changes would be in there, and that for any possible picture in the universe.
Edit: On the other hand, if you took a 4x4 grid of pixels, and went through all permutations, you'd end up with the same result, just less detailed. Or just 1 pixel, too! Imagine that — you can display all possible states in the universe from all angles and so on with just one pixel.
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