Ive never had trouble finding any sci-fi books on the high seas, even newer ones. I did try to grab some trash romance novels for my mother before though from her wish list and 9/10 of those simply weren't available and half of the time he one I could find was in some crazy ass format that stock kindle didn't want you to read.
Ah yeah I mean there's always some big archive that is constantly dodging takedowns, I find it hard to keep up as these tend to go down every few months and you need to know the new one somehow
My great grandmother, who was 83 or 84 at the time, had had a brain tumor (which was removed once it got to between golf ball and baseball size) and was pretty far along into Alzheimer's as she got got close to her death.
For the last several months, she wasn't able to feed or clothe herself, and she was basically immobile.
The day she died, she got up, went to her room, made her bed (unthinkable in the state she was in), put on her "Sunday's best" and laid down peacefully in the middle of her bed and passed.
Her daughter (my grandmother), was floored. She just said she must have just known it was her time, and that she had a few minutes of lucidity before dying.
Whether there's any truth to that I'm not qualified to answer, but if you had seen the state she was in for quite some time prior to that day, her actions would certainly have been surprising to say the least.
Terminal lucidity as well as activity may happen when the brain/body realizes it is really losing it, and mounting any and all last reserves of energy, instead of conserving energy for a long healing process. So it's consistent with compromised physiology, when activation can overcome whatever is otherwise stupefying or immobilizing.
Something similar happens in some recoveries which then fade. People will come out of a coma briefly and seem fine, and then go back, never to return.
Very difficult to study.
Also this is quite distinct from what you might have meant: for elderly who have accepted their death, they may experience peace with anything in their experience.
That may be! It's a bit handwavey, but plausible. However, I think it poses the strongest challenge to the argument of the article, and I don't think it can be trivially dismissed.
I haven't ever looked into these Doom emulators, but at this point my impression is that Doom is some kind of natural and inevitable epiphenomenon that can be provoked in any computing environment with just a little prodding.
Like a rainbow from sunlight, Doom is always already there once you set up a few nand gates.
Not OP but there are a few ways I can imagine this being true:
- the song file stored in binary, printed out line by line
- the sheet music for the song, ie instructions for recreating it
In AI/ML world we're usually thinking about encoding into a series of high dimensional vectors, not sure off the bat how to represent that as a 2d image
It is incredibly challenging, but I feel absolutely amazing afterwards. Maybe because it's over lol. The difficulty and the high are both stronger when the water is colder, down to freezing.
45F with moving water feels WAY COLDER than 32F still water.
