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WCDT: 18-22 Oct 2010 (1776-1780)

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Is it cold in here?:
Doug Lenat did that with a math program. It had a few simple rules for what was interesting enough to explore further, and it decided prime numbers were interesting because they were an extreme case of divisibility.

Then it went off trying to find prime pairs, which is nice, and prime triples, which shows one of its limitations.

JohnTheWysard:

--- Quote from: TheoGB on 22 Oct 2010, 00:59 ---Having done an Astrophysics degree the use of 'singularity' only has one meaning to me (I mean a gravitational singularity or spacetime singularity). The technological singularity didn't really explain the joke to me but the above does. I'm aware of what The Rapture is but having been brought up as an atheist I've never read the Bible and don't think in religious circles. All said, we're talking about a strip that makes a particular joke that not everyone will get.

--- End quote ---

I'm not an athiest, and have taught Bible study classes (including the the Revelation of John) and I can assure you that the Rapture isn't scriptural. It came out of the Fundamentalist movement in the 19th Century, from a (shall we say) creative set of interpretations.

raoullefere:
To say the least. I told you people* to look that up for a reason.



*'You people' being anyone whose childhood was not stuffed full of that 'old-time religion,' Southern US Protestant-style.

jwhouk:
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