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Popcorn Sutton

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  1. Uhmmm. I just got offered a chance to work with the discovery channel and I chose the University of Chicago over that. Wowzas

  2. I was never advised to take math and after letting my advisors know what I wanted to do they suggested that I take a couple computer science classes (where I learned how to apply basic functions involving math). I let the speaker know that.
  3. I guess Ray Kurzweil is my new best friend.

  4. I think that SETI may be interested in searching for that type of creature as well. The way to detect them is to get as fast of a high speed camera as possible and see if you can detect any anomalies (probably with the help of machine learning and pattern recognition).
  5. I'm sorry guys I don't know much about math (besides statistics) and I am no theoretical physicist. I don't deal with imaginary numbers and I have no idea how they would play into physics. From what I have acquired, imaginary numbers are useful for predictions and is essential for radar tracking of flights. I do believe that predictions are much stronger by using statistics. I'd like to hear about the differences between imaginary numbers and statistical inference. What I envisioned as imaginary time is probably wayyy off from the actual topic, but I thought that my original speculation was an idea worth contemplation. How would we detect a creature that travels through a single moment of real time is what I was trying to get at.
  6. Someone once said to me "I can see why they didn't suggest that you take [math], you have to be smart to study maths". Is this a personal attack?
  7. I sent Sensei a PM about that last comment. I'm always thinking from a computational perspective, I really can't help it. I work with code all day now. Sorry for that particular part of the comment, it really had nothing to do with this.
  8. I've been getting interviewed a lot lately

  9. I don't understand the maths physica. I've never studied them and in all actuality I don't think that that is on or ever will be on my agenda because it's not relevant to my expertise. If you can give a quick tutorial I'd appreciate it. Let me change my definition to reflect my actual thoughts about imaginary time. Imaginary Time- Noun. 1. The application of real time within a single, immutable moment of real time, and hence, being imaginary. Ex. "John just disappeared by navigating through imaginary time."
  10. I wonder if after the singularity the machines will end up converting themselves into biological beings. Probably a stupid notion but I could see how a machines might just end up liking biology as a platform for computation, but evolved to the point to where it's better suited than its creators for their particular environment.

  11. That's a good question. I'd like to hear what other people think imaginary time is. I think that it's imaginary because you can navigate through that single moment as if it is real time, so, yes, it is a single moment of real time, but you've also used real time by being able to navigate through that single moment. Real time within a moment of real time seems to be imaginary IMO.
  12. Here is my definition- Imaginary Time- Noun. 1. A single moment in space. 2. A snapshot of everything in a current, immutable position.
  13. "Thermodynamics can be derived from Statistical Mechanics." -Old guy at a conference, don't know his name

  14. I could be wrong with this, but I'm speaking from a philosophical stand point. I think that imaginary time is a property of real space (as the wikipedia describes it). What I see from the wikipedia suggests that imaginary time is a single moment in space where everything that observably exists comes to a complete stop. If you were to navigate imaginary time, you would be navigating through a single moment. If you square i you get -1. From what I know through programming, sometimes when you add 1 to n as in list[n] (the location of an object on a list), you need to do n-1 to have the correct name to save a file under. n = 0 while True: try: search_this = list[n] n += 1 searchgoogle() with open('/home/' + list[n-1] + '.txt', 'a') as myfile: myfile.write(str(item_location)) myfile.close()
  15. Given imaginary time being a property of real space, should we ask ourselves if there may be creatures who can navigate through imaginary time? Is this a possible explanation for real time?
  16. It might be the way you're talking to it. If that's the case and you're being prompted for input then don't be afraid of repeating something you've already said.
  17. Significance Security

  18. Ya, I just decided that the method I'm using is suitable.
  19. I've tried using subprocess Popen and PIPE but the '''keydown Shift_L''' only works once from what I see, same goes for '''keydown Shift_R''' I've searched for xdotools, no luck uinput - no luck SendKeys- no luck These things work fine on Windows with the win32api but I can't find a single useful resource here and I feel like I am running out of options. Does anyone know of one that will make it work?
  20. Uhmmm, so about that genome

  21. Human experience cannot be replicated.

  22. The psychotherapist bot is pretty obvious to me because it uses movement.
  23. There's alice, androctor, sabrina(?), cleverbot, and the psychotherapist one I don't remember the name.
  24. Currently about 1/3 of the way through Ray Kurzweil- The Singularity is Near when Humans Transcend Biology

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