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Mike Hankey wrote: I don't know about y'all but I feel kinda simulated?
In some ways, I wouldn't mind that, because that would rather change the concepts of things like God, death, re-incarnation, and so forth. And maybe those psychics are actually somehow connecting with "the real world." Regardless of which it is, I still am left with the uncomfortable feeling that someone forgot to turn off the experiment before they went home for the night. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Regardless of which it is, I still am left with the uncomfortable feeling that someone forgot to turn off the experiment before they went home for the night.
Lights are on but nobodies home?
Yeah it does kinda feel that way sometimes. 
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Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream? It only shows the limit of the imagination of a certain era; computers, running on the same platform?
Using the same probabilities, there's a larger chance that we're a non-interesting (but still required) part of that computer. Or some oversized rodents' nightmare.
It will not be a practical problem for years to come.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Brings this[^] Alan Parson song to mind!
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You never read The Hitchhiker's guide?
We merely exist to calculate the ultimate question dude. 
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We're running from a 1,44MB floppy diskette.
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Mike Hankey wrote: but I feel kinda simulated
The Borg say you will be assimilated, does that make you stimulated?
I feel so proud, this idea comes out of heads 15 miles from where I live. Of course if this is all a simulation, so everyone reading the article will see the idea came from their neck of the woods.
I just wish the guy tweaking my simulation loop didn't make my computer to at times, seem to run as slow as molasses.
Hmmm, if I'm a simulation, then there is a God who knows me inside and out. Of course I'm frustrated that they didn't code me to know me that well too.
Reminds me of times at WSU, I was building a computer simulation to model chemical reactions. I blew it, I should have dynamically cut down the time segment to preserve the atomic count and not completely throw out the ratio of the chemical compounds' atomic totals. Of course, then the time segment would approach 0 and I'd never get to the end of the test's elapsed time.
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Your article points to Physicists May Have Evidence Universe Is A Computer Simulation[^]
which links to: Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation[^]
Which says "...the observed universe is a numerical simulation performed on a cubic space-time lattice or grid are explored."
Cubic is a good word for mapping space, but not time too. I'd prefer Helix[^] which describes a curved space. Gravity is involved in time and it also curves space so it kind of seems related.
Interesting that the designers would allow their designs prove they aren't real.
It's kind of disturbing to think you might be a model on someone's computer, the billions of people, either all models or a delusion in one model's world. Worse yet, all the people are models and don't exist either. Computers are an illusion in this model too.
At least in the Matrix, the people really existed, just held captive in a coma, to be fed their reality in dreams.
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Well, Latin, actually. The Telegraph had a wee quiz about Latin and I was happy to get 75%. The last time I did Latin was at school; many, many lunae ago.
Try it for yourself: Take the test: how well do you know your Latin?[^]
Just a bit of Thursday fun.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Amazingly, I got 70%.
This would have been even more amazing to my Latin Master, who would have been surprised if I got up to 7% at my grammar school...
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95%! I got alias wrong ... that can count as the one thing I learnt today (screw you work).
I wouldn't have got alibi without the multiple choice, either.
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Same here, Alias was the only wrong one.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Only 85%, but considering it's been 42 years since I last had a Latin class, that's acceptable. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Never studied Latin. But I got 40%
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Well I never studied Latin, and I got 80%! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You guessed better than me then
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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80%. It was tricky, as they wanted the exact translation: the multiple choice answers had both the translation and how the phrase is used idiomatically.
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75% and I was educated in the US public school system which means I never learned any latin. Not bad. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not latin in school but, got 45%.
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85% which I was rather beati with
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Hey, 90% after all that time.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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60% without ever having taken Latin, and I did not use Google.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: and I did not use Google
Anyone who uses Google to cheat on a meaningless test is a fool.
Anyone who uses Google to cheat on a meaningless test and still only gets 60% is an idiot.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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90%
Failed on Invicta and Alias.
But I'm satisfied, I also never studied Latin, but I have to admit that I love multiple choice questions. I would have gotten someting in the vicinity of 0% otherwise.
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Never studied it and got 75%!? whatis en elephantatum!
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