| Reminds me of this excerpt in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy": "Ford!" Ford looked up from where he was sitting in a corner humming to
himself. He always found the actual travelling-through-space part
of space travel rather trying. "Yeah?" he said. "If you're a researcher on this book thing and you were on Earth,
you must have been gathering material on it." "Well, I was able to extend the original entry a bit, yes." "Let me see what it says in this edition then, I've got to see
it." "Yeah OK." He passed it over again. Arthur grabbed hold of it and tried to stop his hands shaking. He
pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and
swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it. "It doesn't have an entry!" he burst out. Ford looked over his shoulder. "Yes it does," he said, "down there, see at the bottom of the
screen, just under Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted
whore of Eroticon 6." Arthur followed Ford's finger, and saw where it was pointing. For
a moment it still didn't register, then his mind nearly blew up. "What? Harmless? Is that all it's got to say? Harmless! One
word!" Ford shrugged. "Well, there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only
a limited amount of space in the book's microprocessors," he
said, "and no one knew much about the Earth of course." "Well for God's sake I hope you managed to rectify that a bit." "Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the
editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement." "And what does it say now?" asked Arthur. "Mostly harmless," admitted Ford with a slightly embarrassed
cough. (Quoted from https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~hqi/deeplearning/project/hhgttg.tx...) |