5·9·08
as a very scientifically minded individual, i suspect that i have long differentiated between knowledge and the words used to describe and reference knowledge.
you're a genius.
dont be afraid.
i should take my own advice.
she doesnt know yet i dont have a next level
i just noticed, in the tv show 'dexter', the main character uses the pseudonym 'patrick bateman' to order his anesthetic, revealed when he deletes himself from a short list of privileged individuals for the drug list.
when did lighting candles become more fun than blowing them out?
how does one judge ones own value?
in this TV show i watched, the sister explains to her adopted brother that she doesnt know how it must make him feel that his biological father (whom they both thought had been long dead), was actually alive (not any longer, but longer than previously suspected). it made me think, what would something like that make me feel? although i have no idea, (since i have had no experience even remotely similar), i still suspect that i would not know how it makes me feel, that most likely, like many other things, it would invoke highly contradictory feelings, perhaps of joy and sorrow, longing and satisfaction, betrayal and camaraderie.
this has me wondering, how often do i really know how i feel? how often do i just pick one of the two sides and stick with that? i think im probably a romantic, so i probably take the side of the dichotomy that aligns to that. maybe im not though. in some sense i feel awfully distant, cold, and detached. my methodical nature seems to lend itself to my entrenched ways. whoa, way too much self reflection going on here.
i wonder if i could have pet hummingbirds.
apparently it is illegal oops.
but wait, why?
id like to know more about hummingbirds.
ECGs seem like something cool to learn about too
how many instances of a game, or alternately, how many moves in a single instance of a game, must you observe (and by you i mean the smartest of the smartest intelligences possible), before you can understand and play the game (again, you being whoever, not necessarily you or me).
near and dear, bathed in tears.
dude, i totally miss you.
i totally miss you.
i totally miss you,
all the time.
5/13/2008
5/05/2008
present tense makes sense
5·2·08
breathe more deeply.
keep pace with the heartbeat.
i was listening to Dawkin's book, "the god delusion" and he had a really interesting/unfortunate but good point about homeopathy versus established medicine.
he pointed out that placebos are proven to be effective in many instances, but the medical industry is incapable of prescribing them, since due to legal issues they would be required to disclose that its a placebo, and hence defeat the effect. homeopathy on the other hand is unregulated and as such enjoys the freedom to prescribe inactive chemical as cures, which through the placebo effect, often work. which reinforces people's opinions of homeopathic medicine while harming the reputation of mainstream medicine.
i think this is a very good illustration for the difficulty in being 'good'. an enormous criticism of Cheney that i have (and share with many others i believe), is that he actually believes he can remain 'good', while stooping to the levels of his enemies, for some greater good he perceives himself as defending. the difficulty in being the 'good guys' is that you are not allowed to cheat. yes its easier to blow shit up and beat people up and intimidate and extort and bribe and steal and force and slander and threaten and use propaganda and hyperbole, but those are all things we, as a society, have deemed to be 'wrong', in general. committing them in the name of righteousness is, in my opinion, insanity. it is a hypocrisy of morals, which is not only aggravating to those of us with scruples, it is simply illogical.
it is unfortunate the disadvantage placed on science with its sacred honesty when battling the unruly nature of human information transmission.
i think someday maybe id like to visit crater lake and wizard island.
check out the satellite photos on google maps. holy crap that is cool.
holy shit: lake vostok: its about the size of lake ontario, but under 3 km of ice, "Its water is very old, with a mean residence time in the order of one million years (as compared with six years for Lake Ontario, which is typical for lakes of that size)."
i really like the word 'nibble'. as well as its implications and implementation.
im a sucker for a pretty face. and loose sexual standards. (or does 'liberal sexual morals' sound funnier?)
he can feel the Mushroom approaching.
its just like making love: left, down, rotate 62 degrees. engage rotor.
holy fuck science is awesome:
When crumpling sheets of different sizes but made of the same type of paper and with the same aspect ratio (for example, different sizes in the ISO 216 A series), then the diameter of the balls so obtained elevated to a non-integer exponent between 2 and 3 will be approximately proportional to the area of the sheets from which the balls have been made. [1] Creases will form at all size scales (see Universality (dynamical systems)).
crumpled paper at yale.
read the last sentence... dammit, Einstein really was so brilliant. often his 'biggest blunder' is mentioned, which was something he said (it was the cosmological constant). since the cosmological constant is now thought of as necessary, or at least, very likely necessary (actually, i think its pretty well accepted at the moment, though it makes me uneasy), his truly biggest blunder was a failure to accept quantum mechanics, which, since his time, has been verified to such a degree that youd have to be crazy to deny its validity. now, could a more sensical explanation be found that defines the same mathematical framework? or a deeper understanding with mathematics that reduces to the current math in a limit? of course! but if we dont find any such thing, we will still know that the current theory does a better job than anything else has ever. and i dont just mean in particle physics, i mean that, throughout human history, we have never been able to make predictions so precise as we can with current quantum field theories.
reality protocol.
does anyone use 'ttys' for 'talk to you soon'?
though i wont say what, i think it shows our mutual propensity for the avoiding of disturbing others. its something we have in common. its why we are 'nice people'.
i think i have trouble with ambiguity. even if its just like, 'ill call you in half an hour'.
when you walk in a room im a terrible mess.
my middle school graduation just popped into my head. and its pretty funny. i had two teachers, a female english teacher and a male social studies teacher, i think there names were mrs wilson and mr bowen, though i dont remember too clearly. if i remember this correctly, mrs wilson told us graduation was important, because for some of us, we wouldnt graduate high school, and this would be all we would have. meanwhile, mr bowen told us that it was not important, and that it was a waste of time and that we made too big a deal out of it. in retrospect, neither teacher was too encouraging. funny about that, encouragement goes a long way, but they seemed to have over looked it, almost as if they themselves had gotten into a personal argument about the merits (or lack thereof) of a middle school graduation, and had proceeded to press their opinions onto us students. in any case, it would have been nice to have a teacher saying, you guys should be excited about high school, you may have the opportunities to study things that interest you. if you find that high school is lacking that, then maybe you should head straight for college.
it appears i have a previous engagement.
yes im cured. now to get over the cure.
this universe isnt big enough for the both of us.
theres no such thing as 'appropriate'. its not like gravity. we just made it up. it doesnt really exist. funny, or maybe unfortunate, or disturbing, or sad, or ridiculous, how much we all fall into line with it. 'behaving' blindly.
its weird that we have these ideas of sad, happy, and comical, and we tend to think of them as separate; it sometimes makes us feel awkward when we view the blurry line that divides them. i realized this while watching pleasantville the other night. which has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. just an absolutely beautiful movie in so many different ways.
fancy stuff.
vanilla bean.
i want to understand these:
field (physics)
quantum field theory
symmetry in physics
murderology and muderometry.
grand unified school district.
dont be silly, everyone wants to be kissed. even philosophers.
breathe more deeply.
keep pace with the heartbeat.
i was listening to Dawkin's book, "the god delusion" and he had a really interesting/unfortunate but good point about homeopathy versus established medicine.
he pointed out that placebos are proven to be effective in many instances, but the medical industry is incapable of prescribing them, since due to legal issues they would be required to disclose that its a placebo, and hence defeat the effect. homeopathy on the other hand is unregulated and as such enjoys the freedom to prescribe inactive chemical as cures, which through the placebo effect, often work. which reinforces people's opinions of homeopathic medicine while harming the reputation of mainstream medicine.
i think this is a very good illustration for the difficulty in being 'good'. an enormous criticism of Cheney that i have (and share with many others i believe), is that he actually believes he can remain 'good', while stooping to the levels of his enemies, for some greater good he perceives himself as defending. the difficulty in being the 'good guys' is that you are not allowed to cheat. yes its easier to blow shit up and beat people up and intimidate and extort and bribe and steal and force and slander and threaten and use propaganda and hyperbole, but those are all things we, as a society, have deemed to be 'wrong', in general. committing them in the name of righteousness is, in my opinion, insanity. it is a hypocrisy of morals, which is not only aggravating to those of us with scruples, it is simply illogical.
it is unfortunate the disadvantage placed on science with its sacred honesty when battling the unruly nature of human information transmission.
i think someday maybe id like to visit crater lake and wizard island.
check out the satellite photos on google maps. holy crap that is cool.
holy shit: lake vostok: its about the size of lake ontario, but under 3 km of ice, "Its water is very old, with a mean residence time in the order of one million years (as compared with six years for Lake Ontario, which is typical for lakes of that size)."
i really like the word 'nibble'. as well as its implications and implementation.
im a sucker for a pretty face. and loose sexual standards. (or does 'liberal sexual morals' sound funnier?)
he can feel the Mushroom approaching.
its just like making love: left, down, rotate 62 degrees. engage rotor.
holy fuck science is awesome:
When crumpling sheets of different sizes but made of the same type of paper and with the same aspect ratio (for example, different sizes in the ISO 216 A series), then the diameter of the balls so obtained elevated to a non-integer exponent between 2 and 3 will be approximately proportional to the area of the sheets from which the balls have been made. [1] Creases will form at all size scales (see Universality (dynamical systems)).
crumpled paper at yale.
read the last sentence... dammit, Einstein really was so brilliant. often his 'biggest blunder' is mentioned, which was something he said (it was the cosmological constant). since the cosmological constant is now thought of as necessary, or at least, very likely necessary (actually, i think its pretty well accepted at the moment, though it makes me uneasy), his truly biggest blunder was a failure to accept quantum mechanics, which, since his time, has been verified to such a degree that youd have to be crazy to deny its validity. now, could a more sensical explanation be found that defines the same mathematical framework? or a deeper understanding with mathematics that reduces to the current math in a limit? of course! but if we dont find any such thing, we will still know that the current theory does a better job than anything else has ever. and i dont just mean in particle physics, i mean that, throughout human history, we have never been able to make predictions so precise as we can with current quantum field theories.
reality protocol.
does anyone use 'ttys' for 'talk to you soon'?
though i wont say what, i think it shows our mutual propensity for the avoiding of disturbing others. its something we have in common. its why we are 'nice people'.
i think i have trouble with ambiguity. even if its just like, 'ill call you in half an hour'.
when you walk in a room im a terrible mess.
my middle school graduation just popped into my head. and its pretty funny. i had two teachers, a female english teacher and a male social studies teacher, i think there names were mrs wilson and mr bowen, though i dont remember too clearly. if i remember this correctly, mrs wilson told us graduation was important, because for some of us, we wouldnt graduate high school, and this would be all we would have. meanwhile, mr bowen told us that it was not important, and that it was a waste of time and that we made too big a deal out of it. in retrospect, neither teacher was too encouraging. funny about that, encouragement goes a long way, but they seemed to have over looked it, almost as if they themselves had gotten into a personal argument about the merits (or lack thereof) of a middle school graduation, and had proceeded to press their opinions onto us students. in any case, it would have been nice to have a teacher saying, you guys should be excited about high school, you may have the opportunities to study things that interest you. if you find that high school is lacking that, then maybe you should head straight for college.
it appears i have a previous engagement.
yes im cured. now to get over the cure.
this universe isnt big enough for the both of us.
theres no such thing as 'appropriate'. its not like gravity. we just made it up. it doesnt really exist. funny, or maybe unfortunate, or disturbing, or sad, or ridiculous, how much we all fall into line with it. 'behaving' blindly.
its weird that we have these ideas of sad, happy, and comical, and we tend to think of them as separate; it sometimes makes us feel awkward when we view the blurry line that divides them. i realized this while watching pleasantville the other night. which has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. just an absolutely beautiful movie in so many different ways.
fancy stuff.
vanilla bean.
i want to understand these:
field (physics)
quantum field theory
symmetry in physics
murderology and muderometry.
grand unified school district.
dont be silly, everyone wants to be kissed. even philosophers.
5/01/2008
i disagree with myself
4·27·08
god told me to touch myself.
and you.
trauma can distort the memory.
when i die, i want to be cremated, placed in a coffee can, and then poured all over Jeff Bridges.
youre my escape plan.
in this truly pronking new market
you curled up on me.
hearts & minds
i realized this weekend that anyone who is a proponent of a boltzmann brain has failed to understand natural selection. as Dawkins would say it, the ability of natural selection to 'climb mount improbable' is the reason that boltzmann brains are not in fact more probable than the many brains we observe.
i suppose the distance that separates the informed and thinking from the uninformed and ignorant is growing, and possibly always has been. perhaps they are diverging from one another with ever increasing speed, as it appears almost as if the informed and thinking may be on the verge of yet another series of large breakthroughs, whereas the uninformed are still debating the last set of major breakthroughs. perhaps i am wrong, and this is the way it has always been; the masses trailing behind the highly educated by a few paradigms.
do i sound arrogant? i probably am.
the trouble with everything always is nothings ever just right.
so, matter and energy are the same thing, and time and space are the same thing, and information is what, the relationship between matter-energy and space-time? or probably matter and energy are just a property of space time. and information is a measure of those things. and complexity theory, or computability theory, are the rules of that govern their behavior. yeah, im full of shit all right.
i ought to do it
so im getting back into quantum computing because i want to compute the square root of not. no, i guess i never really lost interest, but im not sure how yet to describe my interests. a mix of quantum computing and physics, but more the physics maybe than the computing? i wish to expand the relationship between information, computation, and physics, with the ultimate goal being to understand the physical world better in terms of information and computation. the manipulation of information? too much 'tion' maybe?
dear Martina Topley-Bird,
i am in love with you. will you marry me?
i wait in anxious anticipation of your response.
truly yours,
cody
imagine that... i can always decrease the likelihood by increasing the details i want reproduced. but obviously if something is physically realizable, it has a non-zero chance of being realized.
thats not funny.
fevered dreams.
ha ha ha ha:
"i wanted to do it cause its fun. its fun to do bad things."
the sky was dark, but you were clear.
doozy
instead of mpg, maybe we should use mile-tons of cargo/gallon.
so far, i have yet to grasp the incomprehensibility of the situation. and this obviously worries me to the bone.
god told me to touch myself.
and you.
trauma can distort the memory.
when i die, i want to be cremated, placed in a coffee can, and then poured all over Jeff Bridges.
youre my escape plan.
in this truly pronking new market
you curled up on me.
hearts & minds
i realized this weekend that anyone who is a proponent of a boltzmann brain has failed to understand natural selection. as Dawkins would say it, the ability of natural selection to 'climb mount improbable' is the reason that boltzmann brains are not in fact more probable than the many brains we observe.
i suppose the distance that separates the informed and thinking from the uninformed and ignorant is growing, and possibly always has been. perhaps they are diverging from one another with ever increasing speed, as it appears almost as if the informed and thinking may be on the verge of yet another series of large breakthroughs, whereas the uninformed are still debating the last set of major breakthroughs. perhaps i am wrong, and this is the way it has always been; the masses trailing behind the highly educated by a few paradigms.
do i sound arrogant? i probably am.
the trouble with everything always is nothings ever just right.
so, matter and energy are the same thing, and time and space are the same thing, and information is what, the relationship between matter-energy and space-time? or probably matter and energy are just a property of space time. and information is a measure of those things. and complexity theory, or computability theory, are the rules of that govern their behavior. yeah, im full of shit all right.
i ought to do it
so im getting back into quantum computing because i want to compute the square root of not. no, i guess i never really lost interest, but im not sure how yet to describe my interests. a mix of quantum computing and physics, but more the physics maybe than the computing? i wish to expand the relationship between information, computation, and physics, with the ultimate goal being to understand the physical world better in terms of information and computation. the manipulation of information? too much 'tion' maybe?
dear Martina Topley-Bird,
i am in love with you. will you marry me?
i wait in anxious anticipation of your response.
truly yours,
cody
imagine that... i can always decrease the likelihood by increasing the details i want reproduced. but obviously if something is physically realizable, it has a non-zero chance of being realized.
thats not funny.
fevered dreams.
ha ha ha ha:
"i wanted to do it cause its fun. its fun to do bad things."
the sky was dark, but you were clear.
doozy
instead of mpg, maybe we should use mile-tons of cargo/gallon.
so far, i have yet to grasp the incomprehensibility of the situation. and this obviously worries me to the bone.
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