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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/8/2019 9:26 AM, John Carlson
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<div dir="auto">Random thoughts for the day. What is a computer
without implicit and explicit whole numbers? Thinking of a
non-whole number of fields and operations. Are we too afraid
of symbols or semantics which aren’t whole? Are whole numbers
like whole foods? Wholesome and integrity over the partial and
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<p>Probably the same thing as the rational numbers without whole
numbers (aka positive integers). It doesn't form a group (no
inverse under '+' for negative numbers, no inverse for positive
fractional numbers, e.g., 1/2). <br>
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<p>So basically it is a open set, but not a really useful one; and
perhaps not even constructable because non-integral rational
numbers are typically constructed from whole numbers.</p>
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<p>Leonard Daly<br>
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<div dir="auto">Remember Fermat’s Last Theorem?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Are we afraid of the unfinished? What if the
computer could understand unfinished work and complete it as I
have been seeing happening in my emails. How do we “finish” a
scenegraph currently? What technologies do we currently have in
animation for finishing work? Render farms, key frame
animation, what else? Obviously there would be advantage to
automation? Do we outsource our animations now?</div>
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<div dir="auto">We are moving up into semantics, but perhaps we
should move into imagination as well. If we can reconstruct
thoughts by scanning the vocal cords can we reconstruct images
by scanning the brain? What about scenegraphs? Vince?</div>
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<div dir="auto">What if we could rely on computers to design
standards for computers? What are the design patterns behind
standards? What is semantic design? What parts of a standard
must be designed by humans and what parts can be automated? Can
we cogently describe what we want in order to automate?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Can we convert stylesheets into AI? Can we
create cross-language cross-encoding stylesheets? How do we
reuse work? How does one regroup to incorporate changes into
legacy software, hoping to improve it?</div>
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<div dir="auto">John</div>
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<font size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant<br>
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Past Chair<br>
President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i>
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