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Mise en abyme

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Re: Mise en abyme

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Someone should put a screenshot of the article in that article.

Already the case on the French wiki (and it was on the top of the article for a long time). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mise_en_abyme.jpg?us...

Wonder why it was removed.

Re: Mise en abyme

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a thesis that all particles are information, and all information is functional, thus perception is merely the lazy evaluation of the universe.

How does quantum mechanic's randomness come into play here?

compiler bugs - use of uninitialized memory

Re: Mise en abyme

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a thesis that all particles are information, and all information is functional, thus perception is merely the lazy evaluation of the universe.

How does quantum mechanic's randomness come into play here?

The answer is to use one of the "hidden variable" interpretations of quantum mechanics. Bell's experiments have ruled out local hidden variables, but hidden variables that violate locality are still permitted. Since this function takes the global state of the universe (hidden variables included) as its input and returns a new one for its output, there is no restriction for locality, so it remains consistent. Whether its philosophically fulfilling is left as an exercise to the reader.

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I rather enjoy these little random nuggets that get posted to Hacker News.

Likewise, everytime I see the target url links to Wikipedia, I clic, it's almost always something insightful.

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Oh great, now we're gonna have language hipsters referring to their functions as "mise en abyme" instead of just saying "recursive" like we've been doing for the past 40 years.

In french we also have "recursion" but it's not used for the same proposes. "Mise en abyme" is used for art or something visual and recursion when it's about logic.

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Ah, so the play in Braavos depicting recent events in Kings Landing is a Mise en abyme homage to Shakespeares Hamlet.

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I made a game based on the Droste effect for Ludum Dare 31 where the theme was "Entire Game on One Screen". http://hopfog.com/screenception

Quite interesting, I ended up just staring at the timer and moving the mouse to the other side of the screen for the first version. And side to side for the 3rd
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