Ancestors

Toot

Written by Greg Egan on 2025-01-22 at 13:46

Reviews said “Prime Target” would be dumb fun, but it starts with a gratuitous scene of Iraqis dying in an explosion, and when it gets to the maths no amount of Ramanujan taxicab-number jokes and people feverishly scrawling Wilson’s Theorem can make up for the sheer inanity of every match for “prime” in the Cambridge library’s collection turning red and disappearing from the results page right before the hero’s eyes.

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Descendants

Written by Aram Sinnreich on 2025-01-22 at 13:48

@gregeganSF so they got it half right

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Written by Blake C. Stacey on 2025-01-22 at 17:38

@gregeganSF "The worm has corrupted the library access node!"

"Quick! Let me code a replacement graphical user interface in Visual Basic!"

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Written by Gary Houston on 2025-01-23 at 03:37

@gregeganSF that reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film) which was probably inane but in a good way.

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