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Psychic abilities come from those more inward dimensions in which we are closer to being one- the walls are a lot thinner, and you can hear through time, through the walls of beingness that usually separate one sentience from another. Dreams move us in that direction.
I'm a big fan of the idea that the universe is an open system in which no potential is lost. If one probable you decides to not follow your artistic talents, for example, then another one will. And that idea supposes that there is communication between us and those "totally-separate" seeming realities. Tiny differences that can spiral chaos-style into great changes.
Maybe that's why we're living in this strange alien world. Do you ever sit back and watch the planes overhead and the traffic and neon lights and computer screens and realize that we are in a strange alien world? Just think, 100 years ago you you'd be milking your cow, and now you're online creating artificial intelligence. Can this possibly be the same world?
I'm a big fan of the idea that the universe is an open system in which no potential is lost. If one probable you decides to not follow your artistic talents, for example, then another one will. And that idea supposes that there is communication between us and those "totally-separate" seeming realities. Tiny differences that can spiral chaos-style into great changes.
Maybe that's why we're living in this strange alien world. Do you ever sit back and watch the planes overhead and the traffic and neon lights and computer screens and realize that we are in a strange alien world? Just think, 100 years ago you you'd be milking your cow, and now you're online creating artificial intelligence. Can this possibly be the same world?
Ok, for those of you who inhabit IRC, I'm working on a new bot that has as little to do with AI as my old one but is funny anyway. Basically it's a random sentence generator with a lot of dirty words, and users can add more words to the lists, providing they bother to look at the help files to see what they're called. Currently it can do sentences of the form (The adj + noun + past tense verb + adv) and several forms of band names. I'm also planning to add more word lists and make a random newspaper headline function. I could also do madlibs if I wanted to, but I don't think I will. Anyway if you wanna check it out invite Mental|Bot to your channel or go to #MentalWaste on dalnet. If it's not there, it's a pretty sure bet I'm asleep since I've been fiddling with it a lot lately. 
Chris (or anyone else who knows) I got an IRC question:
In my latest bot I have a function $cap() that capitalizes whatever variable it's used on...however, it won't capitalize every word in a multiple word variable and I have no idea how to make it do so. Someone suggested sticking the variable into an array and going from there, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it because (1)I have no idea how to do that and (2)I wanna keep things as simple as possible. Here's my current alias (which WORKS, but it only capitalizes the first word in any variable):
alias cap {
%c = $upper($left($1-5,1)) $+ $lower($right($1-5,-1))
return %c
}
I thought by having $1-5 in there it'd do each word in the variable but I guess not.
Anyway hopefully someone can help with this. I have very little idea what I'm doing here so when you explain how to fix my problem, pretend I'm really dumb.
In my latest bot I have a function $cap() that capitalizes whatever variable it's used on...however, it won't capitalize every word in a multiple word variable and I have no idea how to make it do so. Someone suggested sticking the variable into an array and going from there, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it because (1)I have no idea how to do that and (2)I wanna keep things as simple as possible. Here's my current alias (which WORKS, but it only capitalizes the first word in any variable):
alias cap {
%c = $upper($left($1-5,1)) $+ $lower($right($1-5,-1))
return %c
}
I thought by having $1-5 in there it'd do each word in the variable but I guess not.
Anyway hopefully someone can help with this. I have very little idea what I'm doing here so when you explain how to fix my problem, pretend I'm really dumb.
"When to the new eyes of thee
All things by immortal power,
Near or far,
Hiddenly,
To each other linked are,
That thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star." -Francis Thompson
All things by immortal power,
Near or far,
Hiddenly,
To each other linked are,
That thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star." -Francis Thompson
Ok, nevermind about the script, my friend figured out a way to do it (although I dunno if it's the best way cuz I don't understand it).
alias cap {
unset %outstring
%attok = 1
:nextcap
%wordat = $gettok($$1-,%attok,32)
%wordcap = $upper($left(%wordat,1)) $+ $lower($right(%wordat,-1))
%outstring = %outstring $+ $chr(32) $+ %wordcap
if (%attok < $numtok($$1-,32)) {
%attok = $calc(%attok + 1)
goto nextcap
}
unset %attok
unset %wordat
unset %wordcap
return %outstring
}
Looks like a bunch of gibberish to me, and still turns "FBI agent" into "Fbi Agent" but I might be able to get around it by putting "F $+ B $+ I agent" in the word list instead.
alias cap {
unset %outstring
%attok = 1
:nextcap
%wordat = $gettok($$1-,%attok,32)
%wordcap = $upper($left(%wordat,1)) $+ $lower($right(%wordat,-1))
%outstring = %outstring $+ $chr(32) $+ %wordcap
if (%attok < $numtok($$1-,32)) {
%attok = $calc(%attok + 1)
goto nextcap
}
unset %attok
unset %wordat
unset %wordcap
return %outstring
}
Looks like a bunch of gibberish to me, and still turns "FBI agent" into "Fbi Agent" but I might be able to get around it by putting "F $+ B $+ I agent" in the word list instead.
Hmm nope that didn't work...oh well, you can't win em all. I mean to make it perfectly grammatical I'd need 16 verb lists which I have no desire to do, and if I'm satisfied with that part not being accurate I can put up with capitalization being screwy.
zx20, perl is a programming language used to make programs that are internet based. Java, javascript, xml, html etc are all examples of programming languages.
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