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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Data gets the joke seven years later
To take an illustrative fictional example, in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data finally gets a bad joke a full seven years after hearing it: Data: Ha, ha, ha! I get it. Ha, ha, ha! I get it. Geordi La Forge: You get what? Data: When you said to Commander Riker…
Facetlens : Exposing Trends And Relationships To Support Sensemaking Within Faceted Datasets
Faceted classification (definition)
In faceted classification systems, the attributes of the items are grouped into multiple orthogonal categories called “facets.” For example, a database of books might have a Year facet to group together publications from the same year, and a Genre facet exposing attribute…
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Inform: interactive fiction in natural language
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of…
Interactive Fiction - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
What counts as interactive fiction
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games.[1] In common usage, the…
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
Le fantasie dei romanzi e delle canzoni
E lui, cosa diavolo vuole? Cosa va cercando? Insegue ancora le fantasie che si è ficcato in testa con i romanzi che divorava da ragazzino per sottrarsi a una vita reale con cui non voleva avere niente a che fare, e che poi hanno dato origine alle sue canzoni, le quali a loro…
Look Down Go Down
Role of computing in literary hermeneutics
In his very short short-story, ‚Popular Mechanics‛, collected in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1996/1981), Raymond Carver describes the final moments of a man leaving his wife. He tries to take a framed picture of their baby from the bedroom, but she snatches it…
Red Herring - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Red herring (definition)
Red herring is an idiom that refers to a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the actual issue.[1] It is also a literary device that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion, often used in mystery or detective fiction.
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Feeling yourself as the whole process of life
when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually feel yourself AS the whole process and pattern of life. Experience and experiencer become one experiencing, known and knower one knowing. Each organism experiences this from a different standpoint and in a…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The self constructed like a fiction
In their place we need a multiplicity of narratives, ones which capture the different, contradictory perspectives that people in different times and places have of the world. This analysis applies to the self as much as it does to anything else. The self has no immutable…