{"id":243,"date":"2006-03-11T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T17:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=243"},"modified":"2006-11-21T07:44:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T12:44:21","slug":"the-matrix-for-non-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix for non-Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s seen the Matrix trillogy simply must read <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/tmw\/TheMatrix.shtml\">this<\/a>. Steven Den Beste has taken the movies and come up with an explanation \/ backstory that untangles all the B.S. and turns the movies into something that make sense.  He offers some explanations on why the machines act the way they do.  He doesn&#8217;t use any symbology or bong-hit existentialist nonsense. He just looks at the behavior of the machines from a coding perspective and comes up with solid justifications for their behavior within the movie. <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/tmw\/TheMatrix.shtml\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And just for fun. Here&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<table align=center>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/matrix.png\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s seen the Matrix trillogy simply must read this. Steven Den Beste has taken the movies and come up with an explanation \/ backstory that untangles all the B.S. and turns the movies into something that make sense. He offers some explanations on why the machines act the way they do. He doesn&#8217;t use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}