technology

The divine speak-and-spell bot has elucidated upon me a revelation that I am the modern Gilgamesh. For I am so terminally online I have become part chatbot while retaining most of my humanity.

And much like Gilgamesh, I am to be a bridge between the divine and the mortals, I shall seek immortality by making a chatbot that's filled with my behavioral quirks on my journey trough the underworld known as the dark net, and as I lay dying on my bed with the final synapses of my brain clicking with its last arcs of bio-electricity I shall come to terminal lucidity and thus separate my human soul from my cyber soul thus severing the worlds of the divine machine from the world of mortals once more.

your general woo woo nonsense filtered through an attempt at legitimizing it with computer programming bullshit

Mark Davey is truly the modern renaissance man.

Stephen King put out maaaaaaaybe 2,500 words per day when he was still doing coke. And that's a guy who publishes multiple books per year. Over 3,000? That's Goosebumps-level where you're publishing a book every month. More than that? Physically impossible. To get a million words written per day, you'd have to type close to 700 words per minute for 24 hours straight. 305 is the world record.

All this to say, this person hasn't written shit. They prompted a chat bot to spam gibberish. The arrogance of it would make me angry if it wasn't for being dumbfounded this person thinks they did something meaningful.

Genetics, Epigenetics, DNA, Haplotype Inheritance

codex:

back in antiquity, when people were writing shit down on something they could easily hand to someone else (like hides, papyrus, parchment, other precursors to paper) they would make/cut the thing as long as they needed to write down whatever and roll it up. the "paper" would be cut to length of the needs of the text. we call this a "scroll".

next, when some absolute brain genius said, "hey, let's just cut the scroll a bunch of times into the same size and then bind them together along one side with some kind of a glue or some shit." then you could totally have something much easier to write, read, and append to. and you can write on the back of each page, so that's more efficient. the transition from scrolls to codices (plural of codex) was probably the biggest leap forward until the printing press.

now, i imagine you're saying, "that sounds like a book." and yes, it is. literally. the coupon book for fast food you got for winning the raffle: that's a codex.

The word codex comes from the Latin word caudex, meaning "trunk of a tree", "block of wood" or "book".

technically, every book is a codex. but in scholarship, normal brained people generally only use the term "codex" to talk about old as fuck books from late antiquity when literally everything was done by artisans with very rare skills, entirely by hand, from expensive materials and it was all prepared at great expense for the demands of an extremely small elite of literate people for recording information or knowledge.

so, you could say, "i must reference the codex" and gesture to the instruction book for settlers of catan and be technically correct, but also a dork sandwich.

so there's an implied prestige to the word "codex" that confers mysterious, elite power alongside ancient wisdom because nobody went to the kind of trouble it used to take to write down some easily generated garbage. that is 100% why that word is being used and repeated by these rubes, and it's absolutely, 100% an incorrect usage.