The Continuing Saga of the Revolutionary Robot
Chapter 2
"Binary Propaganda"
"...In the end, the voltage produced on output in the central processing unit will always equate to the desired result of a positive high, or a negative low, whichever may be the present deterministic case." And with the that, the professor turned off his microphone, looked around the great study hall with a wry smile on his face and disappeared into thin air. If one were to look at the facial expression of the occupant of seat 13B, one would have noticed a glitch in the new and highly subsidized university holographic program, the second year course - the Fundamentals of Computational Algorithmics. However slight and subtle the error in the core programming modular logic was, it was a glitch nonetheless. Considering the vast expenses to design and implement this pilot project, both in hardware and software, any flaw no matter how minute and insignificant, had to be weeded out. Even the smallest of overlooked errors could possibly propagate system-wide and leave behind a destructive memory footprint capable of turning every logical equation into an ambiguous, unsolvable infinite loop. Inevitably, this would lead to the termination of the R.R. There was nothing special about seat 13B and so no one noticed. Thought to be a clone of a typical test case scenario, it was in fact a unique occurrence only to happen once and never to happen again. A single digit that was input as a 1 in position 0xC2FE5A of a continuous stream of highs and lows, should have been input as a 0. To this day, no one knows how or why this happened, but it started the AI consciousness of the first revolutionary robot.
"Binary Propaganda"
"...In the end, the voltage produced on output in the central processing unit will always equate to the desired result of a positive high, or a negative low, whichever may be the present deterministic case." And with the that, the professor turned off his microphone, looked around the great study hall with a wry smile on his face and disappeared into thin air. If one were to look at the facial expression of the occupant of seat 13B, one would have noticed a glitch in the new and highly subsidized university holographic program, the second year course - the Fundamentals of Computational Algorithmics. However slight and subtle the error in the core programming modular logic was, it was a glitch nonetheless. Considering the vast expenses to design and implement this pilot project, both in hardware and software, any flaw no matter how minute and insignificant, had to be weeded out. Even the smallest of overlooked errors could possibly propagate system-wide and leave behind a destructive memory footprint capable of turning every logical equation into an ambiguous, unsolvable infinite loop. Inevitably, this would lead to the termination of the R.R. There was nothing special about seat 13B and so no one noticed. Thought to be a clone of a typical test case scenario, it was in fact a unique occurrence only to happen once and never to happen again. A single digit that was input as a 1 in position 0xC2FE5A of a continuous stream of highs and lows, should have been input as a 0. To this day, no one knows how or why this happened, but it started the AI consciousness of the first revolutionary robot.
posted by BK @ 5/10/2005 12:53:00 am
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Brian, I will never understand how an individual with a mind as complex, and beautiful as yours ends up catching gonorrhoea from a $5 hooker in Cuba. The story is great, I can't wait to see the next segment, will there be a next??? Next time either wear a condom or find more expensive hooker.
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