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🕑 Added 2020-05-05 01:15:53 +0000 UTC

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That led me to do a bit of research. Thank you!

Mark

Found it- https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2540

Mark

It's OK, Claire-bear, you know that Emily looks up to you! ... and I can't remember exactly where that strip is, and I should have gone to bed 45 minutes ago, so...

Bill Hall

Omigod the bitter envy!

Ace

And, indeed, only about 91% of humans have ever died

Diptych

Just 'cause Emily's got her own way of doing things doesn't mean she's not human!

awgiedawgie

Are you <i>sure</i> biology suggests yes? I mean, what proof do we have that Emily is actually human? I thought a long time ago that she could very well be an extremely advanced AI created by Spookybot (I use that name since it would have been long before they chose Yay as their name). It would explain Emily's uncanny ability to create those highly advanced computer programs that keep making the government nervous.

Eric Lusby

That might be undecidable. We don't even know if she's going to halt. Biology suggests yes, but it is Emily...

Tom wilson

Emily and The Doctor have lunch every second Tuesday.

Flounder

Emily! I've missed her.

Bagge

But did Emily pass the Turing test?

Ack

Emily's probably on first name terms with him.

Fury - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTLZtZzrWU

Tom wilson

Of course not. You give up your sense of decency when you have children. Now I not only have the dad jokes, but the dad bod to go with it. Also, no sense of shame, either. It's so liberating.

"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Alex H.

As someone who works in natural language processing (closely related to computational linguistics), I have thought about how weird it'd be in a world like QC with widespread general AI. Fortunately for me, we are nowhere close to reaching that level of AI anytime soon.

Damien

Claire's mom

George Bias

Claire, probably. And don't call me Shirley.

Simon Green

Nine Inch Nails uses it in 'Just Like You Imagined' which is my very favourite piece of music of any genre, ever. I have a DVD of one of their live concerts where the guy is playing one on the stage. Unfortunately the only one available on YouTube (while remarkable in its own right for it guest pianist) does not feature a theremin. :-(

skinnybdink

so w/c of them is a Whovian? shirley, one of them is a Whovian, right?

Clara Rockmore and Leon Theremin got caught up in the swirling tides of history. Do a little research. You do *not* want to get caught in the swirling tides of history...

Rob Scallion, Theremin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or4CALipjig

awgiedawgie

Actually, I thought of Bugs Bunny.

FuryoftheStars

Anyone else think of Sheldon from Big Bang with the theremin? :P

Peter Jensen

They have: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3728 With not so surprising results: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3729

awgiedawgie

Don't be sore, Claire. They could have asked for a computer program that catalogues all computer linguistic theories - known and unknown - and Emily would have still passed with flying colours. Her level of giftedness with computers is downright... <i>Spooky</i>.

awgiedawgie

As long as your Roomba doesn't have a jet engine mounted on its back, I think your secrets are safe.

Tom wilson

Wherever I go, theremin.

Tom wilson

Yes, she's so... complicatedly simple. I would totally love to hang with her IRL.

Shawn K. Younkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6KbEnGnymk

GodsInTheCogs

This is me. Oh no

Simon Green

Are you picking up any Good Vibrations?

Simon Green

I'm not sure. Did you mean Minuteman III launch codes or Trident II D5 launch codes?

Wolfger

What's geekier than a theramin? A build-it-yourself theramin.

Michael Boettger

So, Computational linguistics is either avery easy class, or Smif doesn't understand either. At any rate, Emily does seem to have met the course requirements. Or Yay will give her an "A" anyway.