Rudy Rucker

Person · Open Library

Born

22 March 1946

Works

69

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1966-05-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

62

Total plays

306

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Addressing Moderated Mediation Hypotheses: Theory, Methods, and Prescriptions

   · 2007 · cited 8,265x

2. Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

   · 2011 · cited 6,416x

3. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

   · 2016 · cited 4,417x

4. The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines

   · 2020 · cited 4,359x

5. ilastik: interactive machine learning for (bio)image analysis

   · 2019 · cited 3,474x

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Quotes

• “My sense is that, in the long run, Mother Nature always wins. Cautionary note: Mother Nature's win may not include the survival of the pesky human race!”
• “Even with omnividence and telepathy, I expect that, day in and day out, people won't actually change that much—not even in a million years. That's a lesson history teaches us. Yes, we've utterly changed our tech since the end of the Middle Ages, but the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch or Peter Bruegel show that people back then were much like us, perennially entangled with the seven deadly sins.”
• “But, come on, if you want to smoothly transmogrify a blade of grass into some nanomachines simulating a blade of grass, then why bother grinding up the blade of grass at all? After all, any object at all can be viewed as a quantum computation! The blade of grass already is an assemblage of nanomachines emulating a blade of grass. Nature embodies superhuman intelligence just as she is.”
• “In short, a gnarly process is complex and unpredictable without being random. If a story hews to some very familiar pattern, it feels stale. But if absolutely anything can happen, a story becomes as unengaging as someone else’s dream. The gnarly zone lies at the interface between logic and fantasy.”
• “Wit involves describing the world as it actually is. You experience a release of tension when you notice a glitch. Something was off-kilter, and now you see what it was. The elephant in the room has been named. The evil spirit has been incanted. Perceiving an incongruity in our supposedly smooth-running society provokes a shock of recognition and a concomitant burst of laughter. Wit is a critical-satirical process that can be more serious than the “humorous” label suggests.”
• “Old age is all about killing time.”

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