Annotations for , dead, the twenty-eight chapter of One Rainy Day In May.
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Urban Tails
Urban Tails? But before it was Urban Pet! Call Narcon9, I think Anwar is glitching
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formulae
the same word used Cas for the intercepted signal
stored boxes of forgotten content
lots of boxes in this book
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Nona T-Drive
Nona refers to character from Greek myth. One of the Parcae, the three personifications of destiny in Roman mythology (the Moirai in Greek mythology and in Germanic mythology, the Norns), and the Roman goddess of pregnancy. The Roman equivalent of the Greek Clotho, she spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Nona, whose name means "ninth", was called upon by pregnant women in their ninth month when the child was due to be born.
Birdie Badinage on the facebook reading group suggested another explanation: "it is an anagram, I think it's ad inventor, which is latin for 'the creator' or 'the author'."
arabic
infidel
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The Nose
"The Nose" opera by Shostakovich.
Myla
Myla Mint, we'll meet her later
SourceForge
a web-based service to offer source code repository, downloads mirrors, bug tracker and other features
Synthia
the first species.... to have its parents be a computer. Mycoplasma laboratorium - a planned partially synthetic species of bacterium, nicknamed Synthia;
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dissolutions inherent in comparative reasoning
i.e. when comparing two things, we find out that the differences are dissoluting, vanishing?
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Z & S
Anwar told Xanther about this problem? see pg. 394
overfitting
occurs when a statistical model describes random error or noise instead of the underlying relationship. Overfitting generally occurs when a model is excessively complex, such as having too many parameters relative to the number of observations. A model that has been overfit will generally have poor predictive performance, as it can exaggerate minor fluctuations in the data (Wikipedia)
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AIM
anticipatory inter(fear)ance model – for Narcon's, it is Affect-Intersectional Motivations (565)
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Z observes S
Z is a reader, predicting where is the author leading him, and Z is also the author, predicting where is the reader heading (i.e. what is the reader thinking, what he postulates about the book)
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Tim Towdy - Perl programming motto;
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Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure
the pyramids of Giza, named after the pharaohs
Abu al-Houl
Sphinx
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Varese was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm and he coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". He conceived the elements of his music in terms of "sound-masses", likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystalization. Varèse thought that "to stubbornly conditioned ears, anything new in music has always been called noise", and he posed the question, "what is music but organized noises?" (Wikipedia)
Reader's Guide Questions:[]
10. The Orb emanates green light (p. 155) when Cas is in the final stages of decrypting it, Shnorhk argues in court (p. 228) that he “had green,” Anwar notices green light (p. 770) in Xanther’s room when he sees the cat in her bed, and “green” appears in various languages in the book. Is this a significant link? Why or why not? Where else in the volume does color cross temporal or geographical boundaries?
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