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...ts. We’ve lived long enough to learn life’s truths; we’ve suffered enough to be wise. Let’s cast our glance from the future to the past and grasp the threads of human thought while there is still some link between what was and what is, some memory of what is rapidly fading. Perhaps some future explorer will discover our buried treasure, our Dead Sea Scrolls, and read about...

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...related to each other, but I haveorganized them carefully so that thematic threads tie them together.They’re taken from a huge collection of notes I’v... ...to be wise. Let’s cast our glance fromthe future to the past and grasp the threads of human thought whilethere is still some link between what was and... ...tion and custom force us into a common groove and make a man a will-less automaton without independence or individuality… The authority of the pas... ... 27 CHRIS WRIGHTquitous among the institutional automatons who constitute the“elite.” In addition to an underlying meannes...

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...ong with an aftershock—again and again and again—but everything seemed calm on my nightstand. An empty teacup sat quietly in its saucer. Not a single thread quivered on the tassel of my bookmark. It had to be Norman who was trembling! Was he sick? Did he have a fever? Could this be a convulsion? I turned to reach for my husband’s forehead and took his temperature—99.9°F. ...

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....So I slid the pestle closer and pounded on the wedge until I couldsee the threads of another screw near my waist. Then I hacked thatone too. Pop, w... ...making asimple decision on your own. Without feelings, you would be atotal automaton. A slave.” “Like the tin-job here.” I aimed my broken thumb ove... ... to reach their own conclusions. Otherwise, they’re no betterthan mindless automatons—” “How can they learn if you will not teach?” Once he reachedt...

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...Black art of Programming3.2. Code Execution Models3.2.1. Single Execution ThreadPrograms execution is generally based on the model of a single thread... ...ngle pointwithin the code.A system may include several major processes and threads, but within each major blockthe single execution thread model is ma... ...e code instruction is executing at any point in time.3.2.3. Processes and ThreadsOn many systems, multiple programs may be run simultaneously, includ... ...or software components such asfunctional engines.Some systems also support threads. A thread is an independently executing section ofcode. Threads may... ...er they are generally larger functionalcomponents than a single subroutine.Threads are used for tasks such as background printing, compacting data str... ... as a read-only reference, such a statetransition table for a finite state automaton.In the case of a two dimensional array, a additional one-dimensio... ... The Black art of Programming3.5. Techniques3.5.1. Finite State AutomatonA finite state automaton is a model of a simple machine. The machi... ...ions, which can also be translatedinto an FSA.An example of a finite state automaton is the following description of a state transitiontable that iden... ...nd an algorithm used to convert the regularexpressions into a finite state automaton that can be used to scan the input text.The lexical analysis phas...

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...l the night went on:Through its giant loom the web of gloomCrept till each thread was spun:And, as we prayed, we grew afraidOf the Justice of the Sun.... ...l the night went on:Through its giant loom the web of gloomCrept till each thread was spun:And, as we prayed, we grew afraidOf the Justice of the Sun.... ... the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!T... ...of horn and violin,Like black leaves wheeling in the wind.Like wire-pulled automatons,Slim silhouetted skeletonsWent sidling through the slow quadrill... ...with their noisy cries the racing eight;The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved shedsOf the ...

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... and went unnoticed. Indifferent inperfunctory movements, taking money and threading her flowers,the saleswoman was as pachydermatous and robotic as t... ... oral pleasure--pleasure giving man a sense ofbeing more cognizant than an automaton of space dust moving invacuous time eating, drinking, urinating, ... ...er"for an artist to love the beauty of form. In this world oflackadaisical automatons who never appreciated the here and now,the beauty of the human f... ...alfway believed that in his studiesof the dejected Patpong whores, petrous automatons of suburbia,desperate homeless mendicants blowing bird whistles ... ... the validity of human emotionsthereafter as Nawin, feelings were gossamer threads of chemicalsprompting puppet man to breed and breed elsewhere. Marr... ...was linked to such an amorphous word as love,which only had one consistent thread within it and that waswhat all love was, a neediness within projecte... ...ers andyet to interact this way regardless like any biologicallyprogrammed automaton thwarted by early childhood experience wasan inane life.So he con... ...o sweep water out of both sides ofthe arched entry. As Nawin watched these automatons and theirredundant strokes he remembered one time when he went i...

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...fact that it is impossible to create a fully automaticsystem or a complete automaton. Any such system always has an ex-ternal addition that stands beh... ...beginning. Ma-terialism, on the contrary, claims that matter is a complete automaton,that it has not been created by somebody, and the mind or conscio... ...nd friends – ev-erybody wants this. Love connects people with an invisible thread ofenormous strength. It also connects people and objects around them... ...round them.There are no ties that are stronger than love, as these are the threads ofworld creation. Love is beauty. We would never know what love...

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...souls and therefore of the ability to trulyexperience pain or suffering. He saw them as automatons: 16 NICOLAE SFETCU:... ...ositions, the wooden and angular Collodian puppet isplaced in an extensive genealogy of automatons and robotic creatures that celebrate or demonizethe... ...n predictable destiny." (Riva2011, 212) The Humanism The common thread of Pinocchio's story is his desire to become a human be...

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... 2007FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE EMIGRANT TO INFINITY poetry Automaton 2007 1This book c... ...wwwlib.umi.com/bod/basicCovers’ Art Images by F. SmarandacheCopyright 2007 by Automaton, Los AngelesMany books can be downloaded from the followingDig... ...very pretty quite delightful to see At them I had further a silk thread found by microscope aid……………. trifles but how much th... ...your photowhich you send itnot forgetting your eyeshe says that he finda silk threadgrown in skinunder the nylon stalking ... ... he found the same thingbut looking only with own eyespiercing eyehe took out thread penetrating with pincers of eyethathe likeslegs of singerthat bal...

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...t like pyramids on the their thoughts while so many others are suffering automatons. It is anbacks of its plethora of... ...pt is, and with tenuous words at that, to have some impact upon the shadow of an automaton without an instructor’s manual and... ... much liquor you have taken out of thewhich provides texture to a being, a consistency, if merely through threads refrigera... ...g together motely memories and variegated beings as one being— the bed.”the threads coercive attempts to retain the vari...

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...bell azure stalken on a flight of stairs, where a lifeless butterfly patchonly thread on whenever it was quaint for the release to come, from the blue... ...t, the chaos of iron that came out of stone andshoved itself wherever it could thread along, whether it’d be facet or most obtuse, disgustingly a head... ...o, then, wretch?’‘To lure-malurne, of much-mature, there is but a veil of tiny threads left there to guide us.’‘Where is that in that case?’A single s... ...a mighty blown down force, which ripped apart part of thefloor and into a down-threaded hole they went. A well-nigh end, going down there, although th... ...g a slightly soil-depression of thesame shape, as if they were suitcases, with threads attached or keeping them together, in the middle ofthis barred-... ... checker’s board textured but covered by humanoid statuesque figureswhose head-automatons were springing out, in the most unnecessarily disgustingly d... ...ng audibly turned on andoff, on and off, click after click by a tall squarish, automaton-junk device machine with an atom-bombround-compounded tip of ... ... sudden they appearedto dance around them, spitting and bathing these humanoid-automatons; which started glowing withpodgy ooze, and appeared to be tr... ...alled coiled-filled cogged wheels that’s fallen over out of the body ofa great automaton’s sided-blown-busted waist.The hour of the dame signaling to ...

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...the timeless wisdom of our cultural heritage.Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, mythology, Ramayana, creativity, automatons Artificial Intelligence... ...ent mythological texts like Ramayana, Mahabharata and also theGreek mythologies where the concept of intelligent automatons was first used. ... ...entities that could potentially resemble humans. Themythologies of various cultures are filled with the tales of automatons, golems and artificialbein... ... the prison of King Minos. The nexus of common technology and historicallegends mirrors up a shared intellectual thread that connects the ingenious br... ...g superhuman strength, an innate ability to flyand mastery over a wide range of knowledge domains. Similarly, AI automatons are made todiligently carr... ... tasks depending on their programming parallel to Hanuman’scommitment in completing the task given by Lord Rama. Automatons could range fromnatural la... ... a tale of rebellion, identity,and the quest for freedom. Storm meticulously weaves its dystopian fabric with threads of Christian eschatology,pres...

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...the timeless wisdom of our cultural heritage.Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, mythology, Ramayana, creativity, automatons Artificial Intelligence... ...ent mythological texts like Ramayana, Mahabharata and also theGreek mythologies where the concept of intelligent automatons was first used. ... ...entities that could potentially resemble humans. Themythologies of various cultures are filled with the tales of automatons, golems and artificialbein... ... the prison of King Minos. The nexus of common technology and historicallegends mirrors up a shared intellectual thread that connects the ingenious br... ...g superhuman strength, an innate ability to flyand mastery over a wide range of knowledge domains. Similarly, AI automatons are made todiligently carr... ... tasks depending on their programming parallel to Hanuman’scommitment in completing the task given by Lord Rama. Automatons could range fromnatural la... ... a tale of rebellion, identity,and the quest for freedom. Storm meticulously weaves its dystopian fabric with threads of Christian eschatology,pres...

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...ugh which thesquirming liquidities that were trapped inside its pouches began threading along, as if someone but startedmaking as many holes in them a... ... on the wrong sides of the desert.Their wild riding lodgers were incapable of threading along from that point on. They were chained intoplace, and kep... ...eneral direction.‘It’s a dark structure, is it not? Perhaps, rather unsafe to thread upon or near it, I sense, I can feel thembelow the earth, swarmin... ...uld open him like a dumb animal, orlike the simian-bubbulous.‘There’s another thread drawing forth from the other side of the street, a few, they’re u... ...der, whichever one might make one spare, a glance or a leer-at-yourself don’t thread-on-me kind of wink.Nonetheless, the dying beast’s cut only had to... ... than afew days ago, unfold before its eyes.‘A Madular Edroyrmon, king of all Automatons.’Winging and complaining, he opened up the Simian Troubadour:... ...as he said:‘Some bolder homeless made the dire mistake of thinking of them as automatons, striding alongautomatically as if they were nigh-inanimate b... ... dead for fourteen years, in apicture, but was materialized in the form of an automaton with metal, eerily iron worms in it, who wasfloating on top th... ...around the ribs of the tower, then the bricks made to fall, they fell like an automaton’s sorrow,finding out he’s not real, in the sky. It already pre...

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... 233.2. Code Execution Models3.2.1. Single Execution ThreadPrograms execution is generally based on the model of asingle thread ... ... code instruction isexecuting at any point in time.3.2.3. Processes and ThreadsOn many systems, multiple programs may be runsimultaneously, includi... ...r software components such as functional engines.Some systems also support threads. A thread is anindependently executing section of code. Threads may... ...er they are generally largerfunctional components than a single subroutine.Threads are used for tasks such as background printing,compacting data stru... ... as a read-only reference, such a statetransition table for a finite state automaton.In the case of a two dimensional array, a additional one-dimensio... ...xpressions form a simple language and can betranslated into a finite state automaton. This allows thepatterns within the input text to be identified i... ... 613.5. Techniques3.5.1. Finite State AutomatonA finite state automaton is a model of a simple machine.The machin... ...and using analgorithm to convert the grammar definition into a finitestate automaton.Text patterns can be specified using regular expressions,which ca... ...ions,which can also be translated into an FSA.An example of a finite state automaton is the followingdescription of a state transition table that iden...

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... mechanical, the more glamour. Lucky girls. They would have been replaced by automatons, but there areno automatons yet, which would give off an invi... ... inviting current of a woman'sbody. They'll invent them, they'll invent them. Automatons are cheaper. I look at the men at the counter. All their att... ... and they left, probably without regret, this wilderness where lifehangs by a thread of key oases. What's left of the Mormons is the sturdystonework o... ...can hear himchuckling in my ears. Tired face. The lace of his Western tie is threaded through an Indianbrooch - silver with turquoise. Old bachelor. ... ...eir job perfectly, turning the cafeteriaitself and the two waitresses into an automaton. And it was convenient forthe visitor and profitable for the o... ...indow of a fancyshop was a large photograph of Maya Plisetskaya. An invisible threadconnected our prima ballerina with Pittsburgh banker Boyd - after ... ... Che Guevara, FidelCastro. From the center of the San Francisco black ghetto, threadsstretched—albeit more emotional than consciously political—to tho...

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...sion.In a frenzy, he scanned the white world while it faded into view. The threads of atorn leather seat dancing in the air conditioner’s breeze. The ... ...ednet caught his fall and lay him down to safety. He felt the silky ropes, thread bythread, until he saw in his head the honeycomb network they create... ...ies the pod. He jettisons through the vacuum of space.It was then that the automaton trap, which orbited the planet for generations withits metal ante...

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...my book ‘Sustainability’, which is really a variable collection of papersunited by a tenuous thread and collated as therapy for some shattered delusio... ... religion that invented it as ameans of patching over illogicalities. I admit to loosing the thread of sin when it isimplied that Christianity preache... ...eing a metaphor for the haven of peace that living aspiritual life offered. Seen this way, a thread – a sutra – can be seen linking stories inscriptur... ...nking stories inscriptures and that thread can be lost if scriptures are misused. How is the thread lost?The thread is more easily lost in literality.... ...s called it‘viveka’ or discrimination. Dreams can thus fulfil the same function as Ariadne’s thread –I wonder if in Sanskrit it could be called ‘Ariad... ...ls, academics can morph with exposure towhat is euphemistically called ‘administration’ into automatons who adopt the system’sNewspeak and thought pro...

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...d made the guard switch to its vigilance, raising its spear at any sign of thread, which I madeobvious with the unwanted stance I was pushed into."Wai... ...k they were and towards where they'd go.If they were able as the remaining thread was fastly approaching, as were we towards them.A part of my skin so... ... other just as it was safe to lift both of us.Two threats at just an end's thread, closer to us, too close to comfort and we still didn't have much to... ... hand broken and the second one following soon after. I was hanging at the thread of a hand before.Before I couldn't even speak anymore, hitting mysel... ...ce.'A hint of a thick accent came from the man, even as he puffed his last threads of smoke and threw it against thejust cleaned off garden hair.Forei... ... looking back at the writing machine, after inserting the ink box, like an automaton, the small roundedbuttons started pressing themselves.Paper alrea... ...d with legs which didn't respond to him, arms got numbedand body became an automaton to his needs.Champlain could only look and shut his mouth, believ... ...s obvious as she went along that special one, her first encounter with the automatons, wasfollowing the same conduct as the rest of them.Some were car... ...at there still wasn't any interactionbetween them, nor any notice from the automaton.Esther walked freely and thought just as well as she might. 'But ...

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...ed made the guard switch to itsvigilance, raising its spear at any sign of thread, which I made obvious with the unwanted stance I was pushed into."Wa... ... they were and towards where they'd go. If they were able as the remaining thread was fastly approaching, as were we towards them. A part of my skin s... ...other just as it was safe to lift both of us. Two threats at just an end's thread, closer to us, too close to comfort and we still didn't have much ... ...hand broken and the second one following soon after. I was hanging at the thread of a hand before. Before I couldn't even speak anymore, hitting myse... ...ce.'A hint of a thick accent came from the man, even as he puffed his last threads of smoke and threw it against the just cleaned off garden hair.Fo... ... looking back at the writing machine, after inserting the ink box, like an automaton, the small rounded buttons started pressing themselves.Paper alre... ...with legs which didn't respond to him, arms got numbed and body became an automaton to his needs.Champlain could only look and shut his mouth, believ... ...as obvious as she went along that special one, her firstencounter with the automatons, was following the same conduct as the rest of them.Some were ca... ...t there still wasn't any interaction between them, nor any notice from the automaton.Esther walked freely and thought just as well as she might.'But a...

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...E MORE CLEARLY.PEOPLE'S THUMBS WERE NOW STRAINED TO THE LIMIT ON THEPLASMA AUTOMATONS' SENSOR TRIGGERS.SUDDENLY, A MOST ORDINARY MOUSE RAN IN FRONT OF... ...,BUT INFINITELY CURIOUS. ITS WALLS HAD THE APPEARANCE OF ACOBWEBBED SILKEN THREAD. IN FACT, THE COVERING WAS MADE OFTOP-SECRET HYON FIBERS, ONE OF THE... ... USED,' SASIA SAID CALMLY, 'BUT I NEED TO GUTTHE HULL AND GET THE IRETHIUM THREADS FOR THE TRACER.'- 'AS LONG AS YOU'RE SURE THEY'LL DO THE JOB,' ENDW... ...AT DESPITE HISRECRUITMENT, HE HAD NO MORAL RIGHT TO ANYTHING. IT WAS JUSTA THREAD TO PICK UP THE CRUMBLING PIECES OF THIS PLANET. NOMORE, NO LESS.- 'I... ...DINGS. THEY WERE DRUGGED AND THEIR LEGS WERE BOUNDWITH SPECIAL ZERETHIUM THREADS, THIN AS SILK AND STRONGERTHAN TITANIUM, LEST THEY ACCIDENTALLY... ...DALSO NEGOTIATE. THE PROBLEM WAS THAT EVEN A GOVERNORNEEDED THE SO-CALLED ‘THREADS OF POWER’ TO BE THE BASIS OFHIS RULE. HE DIDN'T LIKE THAT AT ALL, B...