Interesting tech

This is the use of an interesting feature that has some interesting implications. I'm e-mailing this so that it automatically posts. I haven't used it before, but the ifs does remind me of a favorite word puzzle I read years ago.

Suppose an alien comes to earth and wants to take the total accumulation of data from Earth back home to their planet. Instead of a mega hard drive, though, the alien carefully makes a measured mark on a steel rod. The data has been reduced to a measurement that, when calculated as a percentage of the length of the whole, will return a decimal that will represent the entire set of data, which can then be absorbed into the visitor's digital systems.

Aside from it bemopsainle to physically mark Something that accurately, the idea is a pretty good one. It is something akin to how we make systems that don't play well together function as parts of an overall system. It boggles the mind what information you can communicate by the presence of a file, or its name, and the number of automated understandings that are possible really have not been explored fully.

So here's to our intrepid alien - or his terrestrial cousins searching out better and more efficient ways to use information. Send...

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