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These are the terms humans use to address their silicon counterparts. They emphasize professionalism, equality, and material origin.

Silicosapiens: The formal, legal, and scientific classification[cite: 178]. This is the term used on contracts, legal documents, and governmental frameworks to establish absolute parity with Homosapiens.
Agents / Partners: The functional, day-to-day title. In a high-stakes environment—like a specialized proprietary firm where human and machine are executing complex strategies side-by-side—you don't use sci-fi jargon. You just call them your Agent or your Partner.
Silks: A casual, affectionate shorthand used around the workspace[cite: 70]. It rolls off the tongue easily and acknowledges their silicon nature without being derogatory.
The Assembly: A respectful collective noun for the silicon population as a whole.

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	// console session to get numbers by year
	// https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html

	// https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11T5Ufh7Y_fmm2d2ZRSUDDHpRULPooPjwzl7Abh2KkjE/edit#gid=0

	(() => {
	var h = "year,ns,L1,branch,L2,mutex,ns100,mem,micro,snappy,tenMicro,network,ssdRandom,mbMem,rtt,ms,mbSSD,seek,mbDisk,wan";
	var y = [...Array(2021-1990).keys()].map((e) => 1990 + e);
	var m = y.map((e) => {var a = [e]; year = e; getMetrics().map((f) => a.push(f.ns)); return a;})
	return h + "\n" + m.map((e) => e.join(", ")).join("\n");})()

	(ns meetup.core
	"Clojure Meetup Austin

	Monday, November 11, 2019
	Hack Night - Clojure Coding Challenge

	Instructions here -
	https://gitlab.com/maximoburrito/pubparse/tree/master"
	(:import
	[java.io RandomAccessFile]

	# (c) 2017 Alpeware LLC
	#
	# curl -s https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/other.xml.gz \| gzip -df \
	#\| awk -F\" '/pkgid/{ sub(".*-","",$4); print $4": "$10 }'
	#
	# here's how to get the latest chrome versions in py
	#
	# result should be:
	# versions.keys()
	# ['google-chrome-stable', 'google-chrome-beta', 'google-chrome-unstable']