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One of the harder areas seems to be “computer science” of which most practitioners don’t know anything about the basics of science such as reproducable results, falsifiable hypothesis, etc.
Miriam Ruiz 2008
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BUT – the fact that it is an image that they will be examining instead of the sole original, it seems that anything they find would have to be reproducable on the drive that is not in their possession as well, right?
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Like a century ago, Toulouse-Lautrec's intimate view of prostitutes and cabaret dancers remains captivating, be it a reproducable print or an original oil painting.
From Daumier to Degas: All the Best Art That's Fit to Print 2011
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It doesn't matter what scientists believe, it matters what they can demonstrate in repeatable and reproducable experiments.
Ambiguity Tolerance 2008
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Ted Chiang has pointed to a key distinction between science and magic: the former is reproducable industrially, on a mass scale, while the latter is not.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008
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The last presentation of magic is rare, used largely as a deliberate subversion of conventions (as critique or satire), and it this that places magic in distinction to science, the system of abstraction by which craft is transformed to technique, process identified in skill and therefore rendered reproducable, open to industrialisation.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008
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The division between craft and technique is however blurred when the non-reproducable nature of magic is explicated (or implicated) as a ramification of it being a semiotic phenomenon.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008
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The last presentation of magic is rare, used largely as a deliberate subversion of conventions (as critique or satire), and it this that places magic in distinction to science, the system of abstraction by which craft is transformed to technique, process identified in skill and therefore rendered reproducable, open to industrialisation.
Archive 2008-07-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Here magic is reproducable (this is why it is a craft, a skill) but for it to be mechanically reproduced requires that machine to replicate the semiotic agency of a sentient being who knows the code.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008
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Ironically, that magic is not mass-reproducable might be taken to indicate a less fanciful worldview, a skepticism about the possibility of machine sentience.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008
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