im reminded of an o henry story where a guy tries that.

isnt the pentagon just asking for total access to source code and data silos of anthropic and openai...that we cant ask because its proprietary software?

cant any point on the map with a road be a rome?

Yes, even ferries in Scandinavia can be roads when it makes for a better map… Or not ferries in the Mediterranean when it doesn’t.

Honestly I think this part

> The resulting images bring insights into the ways in which road infrastructure reflect regional, political and geographical situations.

should just be taken as pseudo-profound art fluff. Are you telling me all Greek commercial transport goes straight through non-Schengen instead of just ferrying across?

fudgings for better lookings!

and roman empire appeals to the usa.

indeed, shipping and air transport breaks the ideology. wonder what teleportation would bring!

i like calling a function f without arguments simply as

f # first word in TCL command line is a command

rather than

f ();

if there was also a function called g, i like to do things like

set a f

$a # calls f

so i can now

set a g

$a # calls g

cool i think.

exactly

every website will ask or phone someone to verify your id in the future. what a horrible day thatd be.

I think the comparison is unfair. Wolfram is endowed with a very generous sense of his own self worth, but, other than the victims of his litigation, I'm not aware that he's hurting anybody.

he invented the term and so pleased its blowing up.

It's not a literal allusion to satan and never was, it's akin to the idiom "the devil is in the details."

It was nearly or actually impossible to harmonize or progress tritones while following the medieval "rules" for church music composition. So it is someone complaining about their work, not a statement about musical morality or whatever.

multiply by 3^m/2^n is a human construction. and it breaks after a bunch of m,n. to expect it "not to break" is well an expectation. nature always has a comma, its not clockwork.