I wouldn’t have believed it was possible even if it’s just pages

I have to think though no matter what the algorithm if enough people started using it the bandwidth or whatever it would take to regenerate the same pages in perpetuity would collapse

I’m flabbergasted tbh

But it is true that using the browse function that allows you to jump from spot to spot in the library doesn’t really offer everything does it?

I can’t wrap my head around that being possible

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Exhalation: Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhalation:_Stories

You gotta get with library genesis dude

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colin o'sullivan marshmallows

Currently reading The 1001 Nights (or The Arabian Nights, if you prefer) for Karen. We were on a Dickens kick, but Martin Chuzzlewit soured that, so after let's see... Hard Times, Nicholas Nickelback sorry Nickleby and Bleak House, we decided to move on before coming back to him.

Incredible that stories written nearly a thousand years ago can still entertain and be read so easily (obviously they're translations but still). Just got started on "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp"; really enjoyed "The Tale of the Hunchback" - hilarious - and of course the voyages of Sindbad. You can see how a lot of elements were taken from these tales to create our own western versions.

A delightful coincidence! Just two days ago, I was perusing Wikipedia and was reading the entry for Infinite Monkey Theorem which led me to discover "The Library of Babel." Seeing the title surface again here I made sure to read the story and enjoyed it thoroughly.

And I simply must mention a similar project in real life, related, as all things I mention inevitably are, to Brian Eno and his Long Now Foundation.

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The Rosetta Project is an effort to preserve all languages that have a high likelihood of extinction over the period from 2000 to 2100. Samples of such languages are to be inscribed onto a disc of nickel alloy three inches (7.62 cm) across. A Version 1.0 of the disc was completed on November 3, 2008.

The Rosetta Disk fits in the palm of your hand, yet it contains over 13,000 pages of information on over 1,500 human languages. The Long Now Foundation published an interactive graphical version of the Disk you can explore here:

https://rosettaproject.org/

Thanks for the inspiring read!

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It’s one of the best stories ever.

Read it, pretty great. There's a lack of really great Sci-fi these days.

Have you read any kim stanley robinson?

I haven't, what's the top one you would recommend?