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...rious painter over and over again: thus they convert themselves into Guido machines, or Raphaelic machines. Their performances, it is true, are often ... ...and soul through which the picture gets its immortality. Hilda was no such machine as this; she wrought religiously, and therefore wrought a miracle. ... ...s immortalized in marble! They are not his work, but that of some nameless machine in human shape. Miriam stopped an instant in an antechamber, to loo... ... we had it in one of our American cities? Would they employ it to turn the machinery of a cotton mill, I wonder?” “The good people would pull down tho... ..., that it is difficult to imagine it a contrivance of mere man. Its mighty machinery was forged and put together, not on middle earth, but either abov...

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...nglish), ‘a boy of St Xavier’s. Damn Mr Lurgan’s eyes!–It is some sort of machinery like a sewing machine. Oh, it is a great cheek of him we are no... .... When the vile thing drew breath, Kim was reas sured by the soft, sewing machine like whirr. ‘Chup! [Be still)’ he cried, and again he heard a chuck... ...were a devil inside, now was its time, for–he sniffed thus did the sewing machines of the bazar smell. He 139 Rudyard Kipling would clean that shait... ...was out of gear with its sur roundings – a cog wheel unconnected with any machinery, just like the idle cog wheel of a cheap Beheea sugar crusher lai...

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...eals, I was about to find my place as a necessary wheel in the politi- cal machine, I committed the blunder of remaining faithful to the fallen, and f... ...e of those men who are born to govern society at large than a mere voting- machine? A statesman carries power with him. A common- place deputy, howeve...

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...man, lifting up his hands. “Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called Man! Oh the little that unhinges it: poor creatures that w...

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...one can we obtain light or make our household appliances and all the other machines that we need work. Our quality of life is based on the ability t...

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...r a thing, I feel bad, but all that doesn’t matter. I study like an automatic machine, but I do.” PA RT F O U R : P RO P E R S T U DY 281 This effor...

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...rious painter over and over again: thus they convert themselves into Guido machines, or Raphaelic machines. Their performances, it is true, are often ... ...and soul through which the picture gets its immortality. Hilda was no such machine as this; she wrought religiously, and therefore wrought a miracle. ... ...s immortalized in marble! They are not his work, but that of some nameless machine in human shape. Miriam stopped an instant in an antechamber, to loo... ... we had it in one of our American cities? Would they employ it to turn the machinery of a cotton mill, I wonder?” “The good people would pull down tho...

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...sister. But she is a very curious and ingenious piece of 192 The American machinery; I like to see it in operation.” “Well, I have seen some very cur... ...nery; I like to see it in operation.” “Well, I have seen some very curious machines too,” said Newman; “and once, in a needle factory, I saw a gentlem... ...her philosophy a servant was but a mysteriously projected 339 Henry James machine, and it would be as fantastic for a housekeeper to comment upon a g...

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...f a seal the first and principal cause of the greatest commotion that this machine of the world ever underwent? —[The civil war be- tween Marius and S...

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...Space Ghost: "Moltar, I have a gigantic brain, capable of turning any machine into a simple yes or no answer." Kathy Konfident: "Despite the fact that Space Ghost, immediately after, destroyed the machine he was working with, his description of AI (albeit accidental) was accurate. AI is simp...

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...d that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for...

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...bly balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed hi... ...I have a hundred a year in my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer ... ...seemed to come from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he was of... ... the typewritist presses against the table, was beautifully defined. The sewing machine, of the hand type, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left ... ...tics, but those are the more obvious.” “We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, and no doubt it is a little worn,” our visitor an... ...ould be nearer the mark. I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shal... ...ve not yet done what I came for. I cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.’ “ ‘It is not worth your while to wait,’ she went on. ‘You can... ...d to business, then,’ said he. ‘Mr. Ferguson and I will take you up to see the machine.’ “ ‘I had better put my hat on, I suppose.’ “ ‘Oh, no, it is i... ...e we compress it. But never mind that. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us know what is wrong with it.’ “We went upstairs to...

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...n excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butchers, bakers, and grocers, as heart could desire. ... ...town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing machine, dress, linen, and all appliances; and the charge for the whole is ... ...f weariness for their money; and we have also an association of individual machine proprietors combined against this formidable rival. M. Feroce, our ... ...g the English language), on the wooden 45 Charles Dickens horses of which machine grown up people of all ages are wound round and round with the utmo... ...snuffle (and no wonder!) deep down under the pink hood of a little bathing machine, and can never peruse even so much of his lineaments as his nose? W... ... high, I saw the proprietor in bed in the shower bath. As to the bath ing machines, they were (how they got there, is not for me to say) at the top o... ...WHEN D ON D IEGO De—I forget his name—the inventor of the last new Flying Machines, price so many francs for la dies, so many more for gentlemen—whe... ...less knives, clogged and sticky, but persistent—and is pressed out of that machine through a square trough, whose form it takes— and is cut off in squ... ...rking clothes, all splashed with white,— where it passes through no end of machinery moved sieves all splashed with white, arranged in an ascending sc...

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... of Silas’s loom, so unlike the natural cheerful trotting of the winnowing machine, or the simpler rhythm of the flail, had a half fearful fascina tio...

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...uzzled a decipherer from the tombs of Luxor. For some time this Birmingham machine ran along by our side—a piece of familiarity that seemed to us suff... ...ent, the want of mirth, music, and intellec- tual interest—the whole heavy machinery that converts the feast into the mere drudgery of devouring!” Thu...

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... Free Thought Bridges Forests All Their Names Testify Moonstruck Not Yet Excess Post-Modernity Simply Complex Noa Noa A Song Minds Of The Machines Cry Of Your Blind Hands Elegy For A Poet As Nothing Else Does To A Child Not Reason Tracery Index Of First Lines...

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...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ... the subject of the famous Turing Test: there is no effective way to distinguish a machine from a human when we rely exclusively on symbol manipula... ...s of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical).... ...limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admittedly much more agile, versatile, non-linear, may... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ...nspire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine language and with strict separation of data (called: "st... ...lled: "structures") and instruction code (called: "functions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the physical wiring of the hardware. ... ... permutations define the set of all soluble problems. It can be proven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, cla... ...integrated with object oriented ones, for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the operating system. These ph...

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...ects have their abstract qualities. Laromiguière called our senses: machines of making abstractions. Mechanical Philosophy? Devices of produ... ... b) material ideas (embodied in art canvas, sculptures, architectures, machines, tools). Creativity and inventiveness belong to us. Philoso... ...y Gilbert Ryle). Neutrosophic Existentialism: Life is, now, machinized. Machine is, now, humanized by science's sensorial improvements. 68 This... ...ing of strange, bizarre ideas. g) Futurist Philosophy: ideas created by machines, robots, computers using artificial intelligence; this is the ph... ... major evolutionary algorithms studied are: genetic algorithm (a model of machine learning based on genetic operators), evolutionary programming (a ...

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...ent. The major commodities of Indonesia’s non-oil export consist of mineral products, machinery and equipment, and fat, oil, and waxes, contributing... ...ategory of commodities, the major commodity of Indonesian non-oil imports constituted machinery and equipment, and accounted for 27.86 percent of the... ...ral Reserve Banks’ check collection system. Providing High-speed, computer- controlled machines at Reserve Banks sort checks, total the amounts, credi...

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...ires the neurotic sensations of modernity in a futurist style. The typing machine is a jewel: the effects of the confusion in the prosaic language. ...

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...n knowledge of Roman building methods as well as the planning and design of structures, both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). He is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery. (Summary from Wikipedia)...