How To Use Singularity In A Sentence
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Here various design moves unfold: nothing is what it seems, complexity unstitches singularity.
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This notion of the singularity is the most popular (although by no means the only) current theory.
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In addition to supporting their validity, it provides a clearer sense of the relation between infinitude, singularity, and whole - part priority, and of the status of space and time as infinite ‘givens.’
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- The singularity is near: all the information gathered in the solar system should be explorable by everyone, that would be real value for the taxpayer.
NASA's Web Future - NASA Watch
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Melville uses the eyes of the whale to suggest something of the duality of nature as opposed to the Singularity of man.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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We are further informed that scientific theories fail at a singularity, which is an event involving infinite mass, density, pressure and temperature.
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If neutron degeneracy is not enough to resist the star's collapse it will continue to shrink until the matter is all compressed into an infinitely small, infinitely dense point called a singularity.
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Every hacker is at one and the same time producer and product of the hack, and emerges in its singularity as the memory of the hack as process.
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The epicyclic character of the theory, piling ad-hoc hypothesis upon hypothesis, its incompleteness and the appearance of a singularity in the big bang universe beginning require consideration of alternatives.
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You also have the Singularity though most writers haven't had the courage to approach that one in fiction.
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Ultimately, his writing became unclassifiable, a kind of singularity itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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Heller's current work focuses on noncommutative geometry and groupoid theory in mathematics which attempts to remove the problem of an initial cosmological singularity at the origin of the universe.
Assessing Causality
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I would grant the relative singularity of American institutions but then see this lack as an element of populist democracy rejected by others in the name of good government.
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It is perhaps a cliché, but it is the mark of a great writer that he succeeds in creating a recognisable world, a micro universe which carves out its own space and insists upon its siren like singularity…
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A time out of time when the singularity from which all things came would be whole again.
EVERVILLE
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Such a civilization may seem remote, but the general concept is already in practice; if our telerobotic probes continue to increase in sophistication and brain-power, they'll eventually become indistinguishable from living creatures, at which point we will have effectively achieved the "Singularity" advocated by technoprogressives such as roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil.
Archive 2006-06-01
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Cliff: I think the singularity crowd will be the first to volunteer to be guinea pigs in a disassembler/assembler gate.
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There are no really weak links and 'Sonnie's Edge', 'Deathday' and 'Escape Route' are all superb, whilst the title novella is nothing short of classic, showing the birth of a new human culture which is beyond normal human experience but in a manner that is convincing and even attractive: a sympathetic Singularity.
Archive 2009-08-01
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An analytical expression for determining of singularity configuration which is a polynomial equation is set, and the numeric symbolic manipulating technique is introduced.
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If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
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And I stared at the black hole, the singularity where the glottis should be.
Yard Man
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The singularity point where all universes intersected was now a polyhedral globe and characters could be standing inside, outside, or anywhere and that would be the âfloorâ of the CROSSROADS for him or her.
The Codex Continual » Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS
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Looks promising but after a few clicks it's always crashing (Win7 x64, latest iTunes) Does anyone else have this problem? singularity0821 blash
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He is just trying to assert his singularity as a writer.
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If things work out, you will have a perfectly divine singularity to serve up to family and guests.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity.
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He had an attractive singularity of viewpoint.
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Cultural singularity cannot prevail in a commercial world because monotony conflicts with the consumer's natural curiosity.
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Within the singularity, matter is infinitely compressed into a region of infinite density.
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Hence we can't really compare them. religious promises are the very anthesis of the tech-singularity we'll be smarter and thereforemay arrive at an answer or state we can't currently achieve
The Speculist: Survey Results 10-13
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This means Washington must take a critical look at NATO and the United Nations, neither of which reflects America's true singularity as the world's only superpower.
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Anything that could not be said unequivocally by the voice of reason belonged to empirical singularity, to the private sphere, and had nothing to do with genuine education.
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singularity university is a google-backed school by and for the smartest people on earth who incessantly think about how to inter-disciplinarily solve humanity's largest challenges through giant leaps in technology. unfortunately, i can't prove it but this sounds awfully like the kind of organization that brought john connor back from the future to kill his mother, or a robot, or something. after all, you can't spell
The apartment broadcast
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Consequently it is not possible in general to analyse the singularity structure in such detail.
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Its uniqueness resides in its singularity as a mainstream Hollywood film containing sympathetic portrayals of Beat concerns.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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Many of us are familiar with the term singularity with respect to mathematics and space.
Patrick Takahashi: The Singularity Summit 2010
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It's said that they carked their minds - ah, ah, their very consciousness - into the singularity at the galaxy's core.
THE BROKEN GOD
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It is just that the singularity of the text is partly constituted by its citational character: the text always cites, but it does not cite just anything and it cites in a certain way, never being just of the order of sheer citation, as even in
History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
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The singularity matrix will avulse at the Gamma Quadrant entrance in approximately eighteen hours.
Time's Enemy
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Something similar goes with regard to the singularity of a hallucinatory experience's noema: if such an experience were veridical, it would, in virtue of its noema, represent a particular perceptual object in all relevant possible worlds (see Section 3 above).
Edmund Husserl
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From an environmental perspective, the Singularity can be thought of as the point at which technology and nature become one.
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Rembrandt's use of chiaroscuro allows him to insist on the profound singularity of the man.
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Very interesting, but I don't see how "hoovering" facts is going to lead to the singularity.
The Speculist: 10 Years and Counting
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The only singularity that can envelope you lies at infinity in the complex plane, and ipso facto could not describe a collapsar, at least not from this side of the event horizon.
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Or is it just an example of a theoretical singularity, confused into pluralities by this august source?
Times, Sunday Times
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For all his foibles, we need his steel spine and singularity of purpose.
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In 1965 I read about Penrose's theorem that any body undergoing gravitational collapse must eventually form a singularity.
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The rough amphitheater below us was also fire-furnished, self-illumed, facing the black block at the end of everything, no wall behind it, but the open emptiness of the Pit and its singularity whence all things came.
Prince of Chaos
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The scenario for inflation in 1982 was that the universe began with a big bang singularity.
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Here's the full shot from the lead image showing the Prandtl–Glauert singularity, and here's Wikipedia's definition: The Prandtl–Glauert singularity or P.G. singularity is sometimes referred to as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg.
Ares I-X Launch Image Gallery | Universe Today
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Each death represents the end-point of a mental world-line in space-time, a type of mental singularity, as Paul Broks puts it.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Stross got close when he called the first singularity language but what he did not explore is that very few made it to the other side of that singularity.
VIDEO: Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, Karl Schroeder, and Charles Stross discuss the Singularity
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that singularity distinguished him from all his companions
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However, I do think that the study of literature is enriched if you have both an awareness of possible underlying structures and an acknowledgement of the singularity and subversiveness of the text.
What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room
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The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
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Consequently it is not possible in general to analyse the singularity structure in such detail.
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In astrophysical terms, a singularity is a point in space with no height, width, or depth – often with a whole star shoved inside.
2010 March archive | J. Robert King
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He confronts existing individuals with the unappeasable responsibility which requires that an arch-decision be made: the decision to exist as a singularity in time.
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In the course of the 21st century, at the latest in the second half of this century, the present singularity of the American superpower will progressively wither away.
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Gravity will then initiate reconversion of all the energy back to mass, to singularity, again.
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The steady improvement of its learning system flirted with the consequences postulated by scientist and philosopher Raymond Kurzweil, who speculated about an impending “singularity” that would come when a massive computer system evolves its way to intelligence.
In the Plex
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The sides and are the II-IV and III-IV boundaries respectively, and the focusing singularity occurs on the line.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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In astrophysical terms, a singularity is a point in space with no height, width, or depth – often with a whole star shoved inside.
2010 March archive | J. Robert King
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Also, as pointed out before, if we are able to find an object of sufficient mass within the Schwarzschild radius, which normally would continue to collapse into a gravitational singularity (Black Hole) but has not, that would disprove the theory of Black holes right there, or in other words falsify them.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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In the first place, the sensory information collected by the single senses is distinguished, synthesized, and collated by the higher sensory faculties of the common sense [sensus communis] and the so-called cogitative power [vis cogitativa], to be stored in sensory memory as phantasms, the sensory representations of singulars in their singularity.
The Medieval Problem of Universals
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Much more of this, and you will set up a serious singularity throughout Series Twelve.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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Instead it emphasized the uniqueness, singularity, and indexical immediacy of the art object itself.
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Rapid condensation of water vapor due to a sonic shock produced at sub-sonic speed creates a vapor cone known as a Prandtl–Glauert singularity, which can be seen with the naked eye.
Faster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena | Universe Today
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The term singularity is an analogy taken from physics that refers to the lack of knowledge that happens at the center of a black hole - its singularity.
Nested Universe - Singularity Blog, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cosmology, Science and Technology
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Most notable is this one of the Prandtl–Glauert singularity bow shock that formed around the 327-foot-tall rocket as it went supersonic at about 39 seconds into the flight.
Ares I-X Launch Image Gallery | Universe Today
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This is represented by the smooth point - the infinite singularity within the boundless circle.
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Now, in an open or flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with no cosmological constant, whilst the past 'Big-Bang' singularity corresponds to a spacelike hypersurface in the boundary of the conformal compactification, the future timelike infinity corresponds to a single point.
Archive 2009-05-01
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But certainty does not necessarily mean singularity.
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This new wave, which has managed to allow the singularity (or indeed several singularities, which is another interesting point) to happen while managing to allow people to still be people, is good, and I'm enjoying it thoroughly.
March 28th, 2005
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This unique singularity constitutes the beginning of the universe - of matter, energy, space, time, and all physical laws.
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Which brings me to if we are able to find an object of sufficient mass within the Schwarzschild radius, which normally would continue to collapse into a gravitational singularity (Black Hole) but has not, that would disprove the theory of Black holes right there, or in other words falsify them.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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They contain the usual coordinate singularity on the hypersurface but, for this class, this is not a curvature singularity.
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I asked a question about what happens when one singularity in the antagonism is subsumed or occupied by those who are meant to represent the third singularity.
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Without diminishing their singularity or their achievement, I would still like to see them as each carrying forward an old and honourable tradition.
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The Minotaur Stamnos was exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1980, and published in 1977 by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, who highlighted the singularity of this particular vase in that 'the three protagonists are placed in such a way that, on turning the stamnos around, only one figure is visible at a time: a threefold grouping made possible through the absence of the handles and which is therefore rare, if not unique'.
Home | The New York Observer
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Saying too little about the divinity of Christ and his unique singularity within history is the risk involved.
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The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
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While no definitive analysis is possible, all the re-simulated persons to date exhibit certain common characteristics: they are all based on _well-documented historical persons_, their memories show suspicious gaps [see: _smoke and mirrors_], and they are ignorant of or predate the _singularity_ [see: _Turing Oracle, Vinge Catastrophe_].
Asimov's Science Fiction
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You know the geek mood is up when attendees stop talking about making rent this month, and resume predicting the date of the Singularity.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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The public might panic over accepting new and untested technologies that bring us closer to the singularity, like cloning and genetically engineered foods.
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(The Singularity is Near) And hey, kudos to you on busting the virtual machine of consciousness with a downloaded lobster ... and 'effin ace on slapping Dennett and then telling him not to worry about illusionary pain.
Amuchmoreexotic: I've just finished reading Consciousness
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The most radical loss of human singularity entails the effacement within the universal, or within the holocaust of spirit, of this relation between mother and daughter.
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Maxfield Parrish Blue (s)", which is my sightly bent Singularity story.
Odin's Day
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A range of dates is given for the advent of the singularity.
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In democratic times, on the other hand, historians generalize, pursue abstractions, and obliterate human singularity and agency by privileging only impersonal historical forces.
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In the following sections and chapters the singularity and global structure of particular solutions will be analysed in more detail.
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I do not think that the expression ‘a’ does carry any necessary implication of singularity.
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One cannot fail to be struck by the singularity of his sculptures.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue.
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For two years, Singularity University SU--created by futurist Ray Kurzweil and X Prize CEO Peter Diamandis--has been bringing people together at NASA Ames Research Center here to discuss what are called "exponentially growing" technologies--things like 3D printing, self-organizing molecular circuits, advanced robotics, and more.
CNET News.com
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According to that proposal, one could explain the existence of our universe as that of one of countlessly many universes that could, and perhaps do, result from some initial state or singularity.
Dealing with the Dawkins gang II
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Singularity, order and repetition are instituted to check accumulation and sprawl.
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The mathematical singularity arises because the set of coordinates imposed everywhere is best suited to regions of small curvature.
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Schiller's reading of Kant, along the aesthetic, epistemological, and political lines of singularity and nonclassicality.
Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
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The latter function, however, presents a singularity for low values of the parameter, precluding a direct comparison of stressed and unstressed samples.
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Too often they involved young, healthy men and women, hiking in the canopied wood or at labor in some remote field; and the inexcusable singularity pertaining to each was that they seemed not to have simply disappeared, but to have been vertically snatched as if by the claws of some fantastical high-stepping predator.
Perquampi
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Just to give one very wacky example, suppose a post-Singularity intelligence decided to "emancipate" us all from the limits of human sexuality by setting everyone up with a complete set of both male and female reproductive organs?
The Speculist: Posthuman Ethics
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I prefer the magic of ghosts I think, they at least hold out the promise of the escape from embodiment and hitting the singularity.
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The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness.
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“It is painful to me, as a son, to observe that lord Wynchcombe’s general demeanour is harsh; his behaviour to your mother was not calculated to win her confidence, though he now severely reflects on her memory, for what he terms the basest concealment, without making allowances for the singularity of the situation which influenced her conduct.”
The Child of Mystery
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Some good stuff there: the first Hugo (which appears to have been constructed with tinsnips and lead solder), Terry Pratchett's badge techotchkes, really happy goth bondage play, Singularity-focused authors, barbarians in mirrorshades, amazingly detailed models of Unseen University and environs, an ironic sneak photo of a t-shirt, Dorks are Hot t-shirt, und zo weiter.
Boing Boing: August 29, 2004 - September 4, 2004 Archives
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It is the crucial problem to accurately detect the traveling wave singularity point in fault location.
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The quantum singularity has these remarkable properties, which interestingly enough are found in a planar monoatomic layer of carbon called graphene.
Climate Vs. Weather Video | Universe Today
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The entire mass of the star is concentrated at a point called a singularity.
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They are seldom, accordingly, disagreeable, with us, to the eye of the most cultivated taste; their singularity forms a pleasing variety to the continued succession of lawns and shrubberies which is every where to be met with; and they are regarded rather as the venerable marks of ancient splendour, than as the barbarous affectation of modern distinction.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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By the 1980s the way Christian Democracy came to be imagined by its opponents mapped it onto the disastrous alternative pattern of national singularity.
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This phenomenon of constant acceleration in new technologies is referred to as the Bio-Info-Nano Singularity within my network of organisations including mi2g. net and ATCA.
DK Matai: The Rise of The Bio-Info-Nano Singularity
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It is important to point out mind-uploading is not a key factor of the singularity.
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By definition, the future beyond the Singularity is not knowable by our linear, chemical, animal brains, but Kurzweil is teeming with theories about it.
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For environmental historians, the book offers a case study of unusual depth and singularity.
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Once it endorsed a hedonic analysis of value, modern aesthetics concentrated on regularizing aesthetic pleasure, showing how it is "disputable" and, despite its singularity, manifests standards even in the absence of rules or principles.
Tastes and Pleasures
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There's some debate whether the aircraft themselves are breaking the sound barrier, or if the condensation effects merely reflect locally transsonic flow (we're talking about a fluid dynamics situation called a Prandtl-Glauert singularity, the clouds being low-pressure regions - thanks to Kentaro Mori for this detail).
Shockwave condensation
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His use of bleach to paint directly onto unprimed canvas was a conceptual double whammy - not only did the works have a convincing and beautiful singularity, the subject was reinforced by the connotations of the materials.
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Laciniate varieties of plants are of frequent occurrence in gardens where they are often cultivated for their beauty or singularity; thus, there are laciniated alders, fern-leaved beeches and limes, oak-leaved laburnums, &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The "Verses on the Unfortunate Lady" have drawn much attention by the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect; and they must be allowed to be written in some parts with vigorous animation, and in others with gentle tenderness; nor has Pope produced any poem in which the sense predominates more over the diction.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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Although they are anonymous subjects of the camera, their singularity is often stressed and their individual gestures carefully recorded.
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Modernist poetics, especially in its early formulation as imagism, also stresses the singularity of visual or tactile stimulus in conjunction with intuitive thought and spontaneous language.
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In the following sections and chapters the singularity and global structure of particular solutions will be analysed in more detail.
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It is the crucial problem to accurately detect the traveling wave singularity point in fault location.
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The singularity of the expression occasioned a loud laugh; but this gentleman, so far from being disconcerted, repeated the same words with a resolute tone of voice, and the laugh ceased.
Letters on England
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The singularity of his appearance was further emphasized by a pince-nez held in place by two black cords tied at the back of his head.
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In fact, I think I was supposed to say "regarding 'the singularity,'" not "singularities"--I have this intuition that it's something you only talk about in the singular !
Linden blossoms, uncoupled from singularity
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The work that Penrose and I did showed that they would continue to collapse until they reached a singularity of infinite density.
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If naked singularities do not occur in Nature then we could still observe the totally unpredictable emanations from a naked singularity, but we would have to be inside a black hole horizon in order to do so.
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Theory suggests that this singularity might be a window to another part of our Universe, or even to another universe entirely, in a way reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass.
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And the indictment (pdf) is remarkable mostly for literary reasons: it achieves such a density of passive voice in the service of avoiding having to say how the government knows this stuff that I am surprised the PDF doesn't collapse into a singularity and take my hard drive with it.
Libertarian Blog Place
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Heller's current work focuses on noncommutative geometry and groupoid theory in mathematics which attempts to remove the problem of an initial cosmological singularity at the origin of the universe.
Assessing Causality
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Acting ethically therefore does not mean acting in accordance with a universal principle but responding to the needs and demands of the other in her own uniqueness and singularity.
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Even if Vinge and Kurzweil and all their talk of the 'singularity' is likely inflated, the fact remains we really do stand on the cusp of something unprecedented.
More Aesthetics
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The cloud effect is caused by a vapour cone also known as the ‘Prandtl-Glauert singularity’.
Amazing Photo Of Stealth Bomber Approaching Sound Barrier | Impact Lab
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His article focuses on the problem of technological singularity, which he defines as a moment when runaway advances have outstripped human comprehension and all our knowledge and experience become useless as a guidepost to the future.
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The optimal feature vectors are extracted from the null space of intrapersonal locality preserving difference scatter matrix, which avoids the singularity and the SSS problem is solved.
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Whether or not this is a valid reading (the amnesiac flailing attached to the thickening stage in Clute's narrative grammar of horror seems at odds with the "quickened" state of a liminal hero), it seems entirely appropriate that the end-state of this singularity is a sort of total infusion of consciousness and worldscape, the hero telepathically aware of what everyone in the world is thinking.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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The centripetal tendency of closure merges with the centrifugal radiation of the art symbol to unify singularity with multiplicity, stasis with kinesis, and imagination with reality.
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On the other hand an apple is a primary object, or object of mathematics, when we consider only its primary qualities of shape and singularity (quantity).
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Lastly, his dress is plain, without singularity, -- with no other ornament than the quill, which is the badge of his function, stuck behind the dexter ear, and this rather for convenience of having it at hand, when he hath been called away from his desk, and expecteth to resume his seat there again shortly, than from any delight which he taketh in foppery or ostentation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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The meridians intersect and pile up to create a co-ordinate singularity at the Poles, but nothing odd happens on the Earth's real surface.
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The ultimate end of the relentless pursuit of perversity is probably something like the world of Charles Stross's Glasshouse, a novel depicting a post-singularity society that must be one of the most miserable and monotonous places I have ever read about.
Personal Update and News of Sorts
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It is categorically mistaken to wish, as Bloom does, for limitless exchangeability in the sphere of familial relations, just as it is categorically mistaken to wish for absolute difference or singularity in the sphere of civic finance.
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One computer scientist let slip the word cultish; others mock the singularity as the rapture of the nerds.
NPR Topics: News
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This singularity is a point in space-time of unlimited density.
Victor Stenger: Did the Universe Come From Nothing?
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The singularity of the expression occasioned a loud laugh; but this gentleman, so far from being disconcerted, repeated the same words with a resolute tone of voice, and the laugh ceased.
Letter VIII-On the Parliament
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The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity.
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Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
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The task of edge detection is to detect and locate the lighteness's discontinuity of an image, but the singularity of the noise makes it to be a ill-posed problem.
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Finally the author keeps her singularity even when in a crowd, and picks up her pen and records grief or laughter, describing the world as it appears to her, or as it does not appear to her.
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But let the reader suppose a fascicule of such poems bound up with the present collection, and he will perceive that I could have gone no straighter way to destroy the singularity of the book.
Preface
