![]() ![]() Veni vidi vici means “I came, I saw, I conquered.” You can learn here why this phrase of Caesar’s has transcended time, but for the present, enjoy recognizing and understanding all these terms in your everyday life. The last phrase on this list may well be the most famous. That person may have graduated cum laude (with honor), magna cum laude (with great honor), or summa cum laude (with highest honor).Ī few other miscellaneous terms are terra firma, or “solid ground” prima facie, or “at first appearance” and quasi, which literally means “as if,” and indicates similarity or resemblance. Ad hoc means “to this,” and describes something instituted for a specific purpose.Ī person’s alma mater, or “fostering mother,” is the school from which they graduated. Something may occur ad nauseum, ad infinitum, or ad absurdum, terms whose definitions match their appearance. ![]() The preposition ad means “toward,” and it pairs with many other Latin words in English. A non sequitur-literally meaning “it does not follow”-is a conclusion that does not logically follow from the preceding premises. In the field of rhetoric, an ad hominem attack is “to the person,” and it fallaciously seeks to deconstruct a person’s character rather than their argument. An author or artist’s magnum opus, or “great work,” is their greatest achievement. Regarding literature, a book may begin in medias res, meaning “in the middle of things.” Alternatively, it could end with a deus ex machina, meaning “god from the machine,”* a plot device in which an abrupt and unexpected event solves an insurmountable difficulty. E pluribus unum means “out of many, one. The motto on the Great Seal of the United States exemplifies one such instance. Ironically, mastering English requires a faculty for recognizing and interpreting these foreign words. It would result in a combinatoric explosion of universes, which only subtly interact with each otherĪnd if that had all happened before to give rise to the Real World, that would be a great way to explain how the Everett many-worlds interpretation came to be valid.Not only do a plenitude of Latin roots pervade the English language, but so do many whole, unaltered Latin words. Instead it gives you many, many times the number of universes, which have a limited means of passing information back up the tree and then back down again. Since each DEVS machine can contain the entire universe, converting all the matter and energy in the universe into more DEVS machines doesn't just give you a copy of the universe in the virtual. "Habitable" worlds just need matter and energy within a reasonable temperature range - they don't need an atmosphere or water if you are physically a machine in the real world. They could have multiple DEVS systems in the probe so they can try different alternatives simultaneously when thinking of colonizing other worlds. If you connected the people inside the sim to a bunch of robot bodies in the real world, they could pause the simulation on a countdown timer for the long voyage to the stars and then wake up on arrival. The DEVS technology converts all the matter and energy in the observable universe into more DEVS devices by colonizing the stars. It could be millennia of predictive power if you don't give a crap about the predictions being your exact universe or the most likely universe, but you just want tech insights that are valid in your world (the real world).įinally this of course is indistinguishable from strong AI, and it is likely to become a paperclip maximizer. This could be months of valid predictive power if knowledge of the system is kept a secret. Then she builds data centers full of these tiny devices, instantiates them full of copies of the DEVS team and puts them to work solving every technological problem based on newly calibrated models of the real world - giving them post-Lily original sin prescience until the next "real choice" is made. So what if the Senator, in exchange for keeping the power bill paid for Forrest and Lily's heaven, decides to licence the DEVS technology to make a simulation of the original DEVS research team including Lyndon at his best, and put them to work on making the simulation more efficient, using even less qbits until you hit some lower bound (eg a DEVS that fits in a cellphone sized device in the palm of your hand). In one of the flashbacks, they say "we'd need a qbit for each particle in the universe" and Forrest correctly guesses he can get away with a lot less.
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