The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code

For anyone interested in this topic, during my PhD I mined fiction to build models that could predict patterns in human behavior: https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/augur-chi-2...

this is the intro plot to a bad 90's movie about how an evil programmer amassed enough wealth to take over the world

Strange that the author starts with a book that began as an online, runnable, interactive book. (Taking a lot more than a week to write.)

Presumably he would end up with a library of functions that somehow capture some of the mathematical models found in some books. Without any of the understanding of what they mean or how to apply them, this is meaningless.

If you really want to do something meaningful and ambitious, spend a year trying to write a program that can understand a single sentence.