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Post by pages on May 26, 2011 11:36:11 GMT
Honestly, my first thought was that it was the seed bismuth. We have no idea what it looks like, and wouldn't it make sense for Diego to have put it at the center of the beginnings of the court's technology, considering its obvious importance to the court today?
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Post by Rafael on May 26, 2011 16:52:28 GMT
Loving the range of Kat expressions in one page, especially sleepy exhausted Kat.
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Post by Rafael on May 26, 2011 17:08:57 GMT
Honestly, my first thought was that it was the seed bismuth. We have no idea what it looks like, and wouldn't it make sense for Diego to have put it at the center of the beginnings of the court's technology, considering its obvious importance to the court today? I don't think it can be the seed bismuth. Supposedly, the entire court grew from it, right? This is pure speculation, but I imagine if someone were to remove the seed bismuth from where it is, the court cuold fall apart.
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Post by smjjames on May 26, 2011 18:05:10 GMT
Honestly, my first thought was that it was the seed bismuth. We have no idea what it looks like, and wouldn't it make sense for Diego to have put it at the center of the beginnings of the court's technology, considering its obvious importance to the court today? I don't think it can be the seed bismuth. Supposedly, the entire court grew from it, right? This is pure speculation, but I imagine if someone were to remove the seed bismuth from where it is, the court cuold fall apart. Maybe the seed bismuth no longer physically exists? I mean it would have had to completely transform over the centuries as the court was built. I guess the closest analogy would be a plant, or even a tree, the seed is there for a while, but soon dissapears. Of course though, the seed bismuth could very well be a piece of paper for all we know since what it looked like was never recorded and long passed from mortal memory.
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Post by ryos on May 26, 2011 21:07:12 GMT
I wonder if that's the "compiled" machine code? It would make sense for code that was created by robots for robots to be written originally in a native form. The only reason we have high-level programming languages is that we humans can't deal with the complexity of our own software without several layers of abstraction hiding it from us. Machine brains like those of the robots may not need such things.
The robots may well have no concept of what a human-readable representation of operating code should be. We may be looking at functional etheric instructions that will be pretty hard for a human to decipher. Recall that we're talking about artificial intelligence, a problem so big and so hard that many doubt we'll ever crack it. That's a *lot* of very complex machine code to sift through. Even a genius like Kat would take a very long time to reverse engineer something like that.
I guess what I'm saying is, don't expect her quest to get resolved this chapter. Maybe towards the end of her schooling, *maybe*. She did invent zero gravity at the ripe old age of 12, after all (though Tom seems to have distanced the comic from that achievement, and it's understandable why. It was incidental to a gag at the very beginning of the comic, but it's such a stunning achievement that to deal with it properly would take too much space—space that's needed for other parts of the story. Better just not to dwell on it).
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on May 27, 2011 0:42:02 GMT
It could just be a simple sugar cube.
Considering the implications of that. Why would the heart translate into just a cube of sugar?
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Post by warrl on May 27, 2011 8:07:29 GMT
I wonder if that's the "compiled" machine code? It would make sense for code that was created by robots for robots to be written originally in a native form. The only reason we have high-level programming languages is that we humans can't deal with the complexity of our own software without several layers of abstraction hiding it from us. This is not correct. Well-chosen shared abstractions speed communication, because only the handle of the abstraction - not the entire content - must be communicated. That includes communicating with oneself, as for example "fetch the next record from the file" rather than the complete logic of file buffering on top of the file system on top of low-level I/O.
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