I’m one of those who actually likes to study, but what that means varies greatly, from meditation to prayer to writing science fiction or music. Being studious tends to mean being focused, with some connotation of indoors activities, but that’s easily countered. Study filmmaking wherever people make films.
My old GST writings were a lot about melding Hollywood with big construction projects, somewhat how SpaceX has been featuring live actors, building rockets for real, but as props as well, in a bigger story involving colonizing Mars. Likewise the stadium-shaped city, super-sized, would have to be taken up as for-real prop making for future films. The theme park or circus like atmosphere would have that giddiness to it.
Growing up in Japan since WW2 has been one of rapid acceleration, which doesn’t mean speeding up (that’s only part of it), as if “progress” or “forward” were a known direction in Hilbert Space. Taking a deep learning view, we have no idea which way is up, either literally or metaphorically, and yet we do invoke that gyroscopic sense when talking about “gut knowing” or intuition. We do have axes like “more or less healthy” in an objective sense. Diabetes took off, like it did in many malnourished countries.
The Mars mission and creating mega-refugee colonies on Earth, way stations for the planet’s migrants, all of us in theory, as free to move about until 86ed here and there. One might be banned in the sense of banished from specific exclusion zones, by default and not as punishment. None of us has total access, let alone total recall. Other times, there’s a warrant out, and one or more jurisdictions in pursuit of justice. Other jurisdictions offer asylum. We have these patterns today.
The Project Renaissance approach was about using the nonprofits to test livingry, showing product placement, and feeding the commercial market with best of breed salable assets. That’s the role the military plays w/r to weaponry: guinea pig. However weaponry is by definition destructive if used against targets, whereas livingry is more obviously protective and healing, meaning recruiting personnel is less challenging. People would rather star in guinea pig scenarios that were not about expending them as extras, as so-called cannon fodder.
Today’s studies took me back into my Python modules, originally aimed at producing ray tracings (such as the above) but more recently aimed at producing symbolic expressions for coordinate positions. The ray tracer needs floating points to feed its scene descriptions whereas my pandas DataFrames are geared to display algebraic expressions for my polyhedrons’ coordinates.
