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WikipediaIt should be noted that only famous rappers get national media coverage when it comes to dissing others.
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“H.264/MPEG-4 AVC,” WikipediaThe H.264 name follows the ITU-T naming convention, where the standard is a member of the H.26x line of VCEG video coding standards; the MPEG-4 AVC name relates to the naming convention in ISO/IEC MPEG, where the standard is part 10 of ISO/IEC 14496, which is the suite of standards known as MPEG-4. The standard was developed jointly in a partnership of VCEG and MPEG, after earlier development work in the ITU-T as a VCEG project called H.26L. It is thus common to refer to the standard with names such as H.264/AVC, AVC/H.264, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, or MPEG-4/H.264 AVC, to emphasize the common heritage. The name H.26L, referring to its ITU-T history, is less common, but still used.
MPEG is a standardization body, i.e. its goal is to reduce confusion.
“A Tale of Two Sisters,” WikipediaTension continues to rise among the three females as their menstrual cycles become synched together.
“Kin selection,” WikipediaLike a teenager helping her older sister prepare for prom night, a subordinate turkey may help his dominant brother put on an impressive team display that is only of direct benefit to the dominant member. [12]
Because God gave us this biological Turing machine of a body, we can run all of the algorithms our primordial field of computer science has discovered. This is to say, not many: Quicksort, but that’s O(n log n), which is terribly inefficient; A*, which the brain used for neural pathways until the version 59.32 in the 14th century that prompted the Southern Renaissance; and—most importantly—the Mersenne Twister, a psuedorandom number generator.
Why a PRNG and not skip right to RNG? Stochastic brains were tried in 59.34 but the resulting administrative messes in Heaven led to a series of organizational disasters. These culminated in the Cold War. Imagine it from God’s perspective: Decades of completely irrational behavior that you can’t “divinely tamper.” It was with great angelic relief when humans became deterministic again. Sure the output of PRNGs are notoriously difficult for humans to calculate, but it’s a walk in the park for God because God also invented parks and walking. In the end, it was the illusion that mattered.
Wikipedia, the largest sentient being we know, has this to say about the Mersenne Twister: Matsumoto and Nishimura developed it in 1997 with Monte Carlo simulations in mind. Of course, you can’t summarize years of research in one sentence any more than you can say World War II happened because of three rabbits and a bonfire—even if it is true—because while you’ve addressed the primary cause, you’ve eviscerated the story of all its supporting cast. Matsumoto met Nishimura on a bicycling expedition down the Japura River in the Amazon. Nishimura was drowning in the heady vapors of the Amazon, which would settle on and bite your hand like ferociously emotional mosquitoes. Like you and me, they developed a friendship on the banks of a majestic river yards away from horny alligators. They were never supposed to have met, but that’s what happens when you let loose stochastic humans and the butterfly effect in the same universe. Their two brains, two halves of a quine, colluded to reveal a commented-out Mersenne Twister in a pure and beautiful language no man has ever understood before or after that divine revelation. That language was Haskell, and their algorithm did indeed influence the tiny field of Monte Carlo simulations, but isn’t this story much nicer?
In 2003, U.S. scientists demonstrated that D. radiodurans could be
used as a means of information storage that might survive a nuclear
catastrophe. They translated the song It’s a Small World into a
series of DNA segments 150 base pairs long, inserted these into the
bacteria, and were able to retrieve them without errors 100
generations later.
“Deinococcus radiodurans”, Wikipedia
It’s ridiculous that I have to annotate this for you, but here goes since seemingly nobody else has noticed this (not even Wikipedia!): The book Here Comes Everybody takes its title from the main character in Finnegan’s Wake. That, of course, is a trick answer. There is no main character in James Joyce’s last novel; there are no characters to be perfectly honest, there is only despair from thousands of literary scholars and critics at having to work through that novel, infuriating piece by infuriating piece. And here comes Clay Shirky with the absolute audacity to talk about “group dynamics” by pilfering his book title into the absolutely cliché “Title: Very long subtitle about the subject whereas you could just read the book jacket, that’s what it’s there for you know.” template. I’m betting my Snorlax Pokémon card that Shirky hasn’t even read Finnegan’s Wake, but no feel free to piss all over the place and take what isn’t yours. Thanks a lot, Clay Shirky. Thanks a lot.
Alas, friends, I believe I’ve found the most delicious scientific section on Wikipedia. With the twenty-year old hunt drawing to a close now, I have only a couple of words to say: Boit ziff pop burp loam.