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- Knuth’s tantalizing prospect: That undernearth all A’s there is one grand ultimate abstraction that can capture in a finitely parametrizable computational structure, a software machine with a finite number of turnable knobs
- Every conceivable particular ‘A’ is just a product with this machine, with its knobs set at specific values
A font that is alphabetrical, centralized A with sprawl of 25 other letters like a spiral. Perhaps the A isn’t centrally located.
If you spent your lifetime depicting all “A”s you could think up, you’d still miss out on a great portion of As.
A page that gets increasingly chaotic on each view, the text becomes blemished and stretched the more impressions it gets.
Does a platonic A exist. A canonical A. What does it look like. How would you describe the letter A. Derivation from greek letter alpha, phonecian aleph
The difference between my handwriting and yours, and random someone else
The difference between my letter a in a paragraph, and a subsequent rendering in a paragraph, and the first letter A I rendered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allograph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme
“The Essence of A-ness is not Geometrical” The shape of a letterform is a surface manifestation of deep mental absttractions, that no finite set of geometric knobs could capture.
This is where taste arises.
You can read an entire book, encounter thousands of a’s and upon completion, if asked to precisely depict it, there might be difficulty.
https://www.pinterest.com/fashajana/font/
knuth + doug, “the centeral problem of ai is: what aare a and i?”
by making these claims, i am suggesting that for any program to handle letterforms with flexibility that human beings do, it would have to possess full scale general intelligence
the shape of my letter a vs the shape of yours vs how it would be able to mapped the look of the letter a from piece of paper when I was a kid
quiddity
TIT FOR TAT relies on the assumption that its opponent is trying to maximize his score. When paired with a mindless strategy like RANDOM, TIT FOR TAT sinks to its opponent’s level. For that reason, TIT FOR TAT cannot be called a “best” strategy.
It must be realized that there really is no “best” strategy for prisoner’s dilemma. Each individual strategy will work best when matched against a “worse” strategy. In order to win, a player must figure out his opponent’s strategy and then pick a strategy that is best suited for the situation.
Reflective Sentences
The reader of this sentence only exists while reading me
NOTE
I was thinking if there’re any examples of deliberately broken titles. For example in movies - a script called “thi modern life”
“does this sentence remind you of agatha christie?” “does this sentence remind you of centerport” (there isn’t anything about the sentence related to AC besides the reference which completes it. Author doesn’t even know anything about AC”)
As a final question on a course exam,
Write a question suitable to the final example of this course and then answer it.
In this sentence the number of occurrences of 0 is _, of 1 is _, of 2 is _, of 3 is _, of 4 is _, of 5 is _, of 6 is _, of 7 is _, of 8 is _, and of of 9 is _. (As you fill in the sentence _s it ripples in sequence)
A structure called a “pothole” is explained. Here are examples.
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Due to circumstances outside of my control, I am the master of my fate and the captain of my soul.
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As long as I have you, I can endure all of the troubles that you eventually bring
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What would life be, without me.