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Nik
Thursday, 08 May 2008, 10:01 PM

Have You Read...
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Hi, Tormie, have you read the two relevant Charles Stross books, 'Atrocity Exhibition' and 'Jennifer Morgue' ??

Their premise is that all the Chthulu mythos is *real*, and Alan Turing (RIP) accidentally found a way to systemitise 'magic' using maths and procedural language. 

Snag is that many modest variations of mathematical constructs familiar to eg render engines may cast geometric shadows into 'other spaces' that attract unpleasant whatsits. Home brewing a new, 'real neat' algorithm could get you eaten-- Or worse...

Did you say 'Computational Demonology' ?? Uh-huh. As one of the hilarious asides comments, it gives a whole new meaning to eg 'memory leak'...

Fortunately, each country has a covert organisation that cleans up resulting mess, by recruiting the fortunate or burying what was left of the rest. UK's is cheerfully mis-known as 'The Laundry'. They're NOT MIB, that's for sure...


