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nostalgebraist:

Visually, the performance of the agent was non-optimal. However, after 2.5 million cycles of interaction, the agent had managed to learn a number of important concepts. It knows not to run into walls. It knows how to seek out food from the limited information provided by its sensors. It knows how to run away and avoid chasing ghosts.

nostalgebraist:

My business is with the romantic passions, love-debts, girlish heartbreaks and male philandering of your dust-stained, human world.

Is there a common source for your quotes tag?

Nope, they can come from any text I happen to be looking at.  If you’re curious, I’m pretty sure most of them can be found on Google.  (Most of the ones that can’t are text I generated with the program Janusnode, which I also have a tag for.)

nostalgebraist:

Today he was still five-seven, but … in the mirror … five feet and seven inches’ worth of big smooth rock formations, real Gibraltars, traps, delts, lats, pecs, biceps, triceps, obliques, abs, glutes, quads—dense!—and you want to know what was even better for the upper body than weights? Climbing the fifty-five-foot-high rope at Rodriguez’s “Ññññññooooooooooooo!!! Qué Gym!,” as everybody called it, without using your legs. You want dense biceps and lats—and even pecs? Nothing like climbing that fifty-five-foot-high rope at Rodriguez’s—dense!—and defined by the deep dark crevasses each mass of muscle dropped off into at the edges … in the mirror… .

nostalgebraist:

Santa Number One, who is also known as Santa Rob, asked us to maintain his veil of anonymity so that he may speak freely.

nostalgebraist:

It will have an effect roughly comparable to pouring fifty gallons of thick oatmeal into a harpsichord during a baroque recital.

nostalgebraist:

Thus the core mechanics — god-like intervention and the desire for peeps to expand — were created.

nostalgebraist:

A friend of Doi’s, the erotic artist Hajime Sorayama, was enlisted to create the initial designs for the AIBO’s body.

nostalgebraist:

It was not all that easy to work in the house because Sib kept interrupting to read out amusing extracts from the Magazine of the Parrot Society such as Factors Affecting Parrots, A. Human Interference.

nostalgebraist:

The elves in the film are portrayed as legendary beings known as the Vendequm. According to the Santa Claus: The Movie novelization written by science fiction/fantasy novelist Joan D. Vinge, the elves keep watch over all that happens in the world that borders their own magical realm.