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What if I told you that I have your selfie you clicked 10 days ago?
And what if I told you that I have your selfie you'll click 10 days from now in the future!?
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And what if I told you that I have your selfie you'll click 10 days from now in the future!?
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I even have the exact photo of how you looked, the moment you were born. I also have the exact photo of how you'll look 20 years from now in the future.
And I'm not talking about predictions or assumptions, I'm talking about exact images, pixel by pixel
I even have the exact photo of how you looked, the moment you were born. I also have the exact photo of how you'll look 20 years from now in the future.
And I'm not talking about predictions or assumptions, I'm talking about exact images, pixel by pixel
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Before you call it a glitch in the matrix, let me explain.
I'm talking about @jonothingEB's creation, Library of Babel ( http://libraryofbabel.info )
"It is a digital library which contains every possible permutation of 26 alphabets"...
Before you call it a glitch in the matrix, let me explain.
I'm talking about @jonothingEB's creation, Library of Babel ( http://libraryofbabel.info )
"It is a digital library which contains every possible permutation of 26 alphabets"...
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... is what every website will tell you after you Google for Library of Babel. But I would like to highlight a character no one gives credit to, a space, yes, a " ". Without it, you can't make sentences, which won't let you make paragraphs, books, scriptures, and so on.
... is what every website will tell you after you Google for Library of Babel. But I would like to highlight a character no one gives credit to, a space, yes, a " ". Without it, you can't make sentences, which won't let you make paragraphs, books, scriptures, and so on.
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"At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10⁴⁶⁷⁷ pages". If you search something multiple times, you'll find it in the same volume, on the same shelf, of the same wall, of the same hexagon every single time. Everything is prewritten.
"At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10⁴⁶⁷⁷ pages". If you search something multiple times, you'll find it in the same volume, on the same shelf, of the same wall, of the same hexagon every single time. Everything is prewritten.
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As @tweetsauce says, it blurs the line between invention and discovery as everything already exists in the Library of Babel.
As @tweetsauce says, it blurs the line between invention and discovery as everything already exists in the Library of Babel.
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To summarize, Library of Babel already contains every book, song, article, tweet, ever written and will be written. It even contains the story of your life, and every human's life ever existed, and will exist.
Cont'd
To summarize, Library of Babel already contains every book, song, article, tweet, ever written and will be written. It even contains the story of your life, and every human's life ever existed, and will exist.
Cont'd
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The idea is to write all the combinations for those 27 characters (26 alphabets and a space), and you'll end up with a ton of gibberish, and all possible meaningful text (ever written and will be written). This is what Library of Babel is, in the form of a website
The idea is to write all the combinations for those 27 characters (26 alphabets and a space), and you'll end up with a ton of gibberish, and all possible meaningful text (ever written and will be written). This is what Library of Babel is, in the form of a website
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"But what does this have to do with you having my photos from the future?"
This takes us to the "Image Archives" section of the Library of Babel.
After finding permutations of A, B and C, we get: A, B, C, AB, AC, BA, BC... ABC, ACB, BAC...
"But what does this have to do with you having my photos from the future?"
This takes us to the "Image Archives" section of the Library of Babel.
After finding permutations of A, B and C, we get: A, B, C, AB, AC, BA, BC... ABC, ACB, BAC...
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Now we'll apply the same logic to pixels. Let's take 4 pixels and 2 colors. The permutations are shown in image below
Now we'll apply the same logic to pixels. Let's take 4 pixels and 2 colors. The permutations are shown in image below
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And if we apply the same logic to few more pixels, you'll get old school Nokia GIFs.
And when we apply the same logic to 640 × 416 pixels, and few more colors, we end up with almost every possible image, which is what Library of Babel's Image Archives section basically is.
And if we apply the same logic to few more pixels, you'll get old school Nokia GIFs.
And when we apply the same logic to 640 × 416 pixels, and few more colors, we end up with almost every possible image, which is what Library of Babel's Image Archives section basically is.
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If you search for an image randomly, there's a really really high chance that you'll find something like this
If you search for an image randomly, there's a really really high chance that you'll find something like this
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Now you know that every image in your phone's gallery, already exists in the Library of Babel. Also does your personal diary.
Now you know that every image in your phone's gallery, already exists in the Library of Babel. Also does your personal diary.
You can find this tweet in Volume 17 on Shelf 5 of Wall 2 of Hexagon: (code is too long, cannot paste here) in the Library of Babel
Here's the complete code for the Hexagon https://gist.github.com/atharvakharbade/ec2e9dcc1a213a2b219fab167c4dd936
Thanks to @ayushthakur2293 for introducing me to GitHib Gist
Thanks to @ayushthakur2293 for introducing me to GitHib Gist
