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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Library of Babel

As you might know, I get easily distracted in high school I enjoy finding websites and I enjoy books.  So this one is very interesting to me.  The Library of Babel.  Originally, this was based off of a short story about an infinite array of hexagonal rooms filled with books four hundred ten pages in length filled with random characters.  Because there is an infinite amount, every piece of writing ever made or ever to be made is somewhere in that library.  The website linked above is an online replication of this concept.  Of course, because you cant actually have infinite storage the website is based off of seeds that generate each hex, but what those seeds do is create a location for each pod so that each pod can be accessed from any computer with the location of it.  For example, go to the website and go to room one and open the very first book on the first shelf of the first wall it should start with lcmruvssr. But this is just one room, and although I haven't looked through it all there likely isn't anything of interest in this room.  The thing is,  there are so many rooms that the seeds for them use alphanumeric coding so that they dont get too long and even then they are usually like a page long.  So in theory, every thought you've ever thought and every thing you ever have written is somewhere on that website, as well as anything that ever will be written or thought by anyone.  Including this post.

Annnd this post was really long and boring considering how long it took me.  Was supposed to be for yesterday but school is a lot of work.  Which kind of sucks considering that makes that the first day in the regular season of SoL that Ive missed.

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