What Colour are your bits? - Why Computer Scientists and Lawyers disagree about Intellectual Property
ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.phpPosted Nov 16, 2008, 3:40 AM UTC
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I didn't reread this, but I upvoted because it's a great article every computer scientist should read (and think about). It has implications not just for law, but philosophy and AI among other things.
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I've just generated a 4'33 second silent mp3 file with audacity, and it's nowhere near the size of a compressed /dev/zero.
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The law sees color with the time the sun rises because this time differs based on longitude, latitude, time of year, and terrain on the horizon.
The naval observatory's measurements doesn't account for all of these.
I would have read further, but didn't because its a repost.
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Wall of text.
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Yes, but it's an interesting wall of text.
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right, because who wants to read something when they're on the Internet? ;)
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go live in synopsis world
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It's conjectured that a digital representation of pi contains every digital work. This is an interesting addendum to that notion.
Some people seem to think that this is some kind of magical property of pi. It's not. Almost all real numbers have this property. Of course, almost all real numbers are also uncomputable, but it's trivial (and a little silly) to define a simple computable number that works.
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