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• john.ohno commented on Rule 34 moments
  I haven't gotten Rule 34 yet (still waiting for my local bookstore to stock it), but on the subject generally of those kinds of coincidences: Jungians tend to call it synchronicity, and refuse to explain it. Discordians call it 'the law of fives', and when they explain it, the explanation generally comes down to "you see what you are looking for, often whether or not it's there" (i.e., there are a huge number of cognitive biases influencing you to focus on anything you are already primed to be on the lookout for, and to ignore things you don't expect). Writing...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Rule 34 moments
  Well, this looks like the beginning of a Rule 34 moment: http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/1451246/Computer-Learns-Language-By-Playing-Games "By basing its strategies on the text of a manual, a computer infers the meanings of words without human supervision. The paper Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework (PDF) explains how a computer program succeeds in playing Civilization II using the official game manual as a strategy guide. This manual uses a large vocabulary of 3638 words, and is composed of 2083 sentences, each on average 16.9 words long. By this the program improves it success rate from 45% to 78% in playing the...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Rule 34 moments
  And here's another one. http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2011/07/13/news/doc4e1d0b6ce5b4a641317941.txt Mazzola’s cause of death has been listed as asphyxia due to airway obstruction by a foreign body...
• mark.dennehy commented on Rule 34 moments
  I realise that you've probably seen this already (and may in fact have had to create a new spam filter rule for us helpful folk pointing it out to you by email), but... http://xkcd.com/924/ Forget being a successful SF writer of some considerable note, now that you've been XKCD'd, you're really famous :-D...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Rule 34 moments
  The NS blog-article also points to "Halting State" predictions Here and Here as well which are already deployed, or are about to be. Scary stuff....