"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4

Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 by bjelkeman-again on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:19PM (#37922869)

Yeah, it was a bit meh. But the book is so good I forgive the ending.

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Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 by gibspaulding on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:03PM (#37923240)

I barely remember the actual story in cryptonomicon, but his tangents on who fucked who in Greek mythology, how to eat cereal with a beard, how to assemble a Linux distro with such an obtuse user interface as to defeat Van Eck Phreaking, or Plato's cave are absolute gold.

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Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 by the__alchemist on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:40PM (#37923904)

You might enjoy The Saga of WalMart from DODO.

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Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 by altano on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:46PM (#37924648)

It's a joke in my household that I often say "there's great a chapter on that in Cyrptonomicon" given basically any topic.

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Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 by mrmlz on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:51AM (#37926984)

I learned so many random bits of information from that book.. Just the amount of work that goes into laying underwater fiber!

He wrote a article about it later (or before?)

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

Great read!

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Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 by bjelkeman-again on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:19AM (#37964529)

That was a really thick issue of Wired. I still have it.

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Re:"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 by Doxin on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:57AM (#37955410)

I've forgotten most of the content of cryptonomicon -- I should re-read it -- but that "abandon shit" joke will probably never leave my brain.

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