A few internet tidbits to keep you going through the intra-holiday blogging lull.
- The World’s Smallest Website! Seriously, this website is not only extremely small, it probably has a lot more interesting stuff than yours does. You should be ashamed.
- How interesting is your IP address? Mine is prime, which is nice, but it makes a terrible poker hand.
- Cosmic Variance Calculator. Sometimes, you just want to calculate your cosmic variance. By Michele Trenti, based on this paper.
December 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Small is right. But it’s bad for my eyes. Anyway, that is a creative idea though…
December 28th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
My pair of sevens most likely will not stand up after the flop. But that was fun.
Micro-pong on the other hand was pretty useless without a large magnifier for my poor eyes. But also interesting and fun for a moment or two.
I also didn’t notice a box to input the quantity of DMT released from the pineal gland in µg/kg of body weight. Such output, unmitigated by an MAO, would dramatically alter anyone’s cosmic variances. NYE joke for 2012.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
How you recognize your enemies is – they are the ones who want to know everything about you.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
my pencil beam properties seem a bit low. any suggestions?
December 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Okay, let’s see if I can improve my IP, 76.104.200.79, by claiming that it looks like a tree…
December 29th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
(This post is actually a slightly better version of that last post of mine). The other can be deleted for that reason, if you wish.
Sean,
Just on the word about the other post (a few posts back) in which you talk about the concept of -interesting- I was thinking about an analogy I use often which fits in with physics as it where and the way people think. It need not be true.
It’s just so simple and the idea starts with the human thinking system to be likened with the forces that we work with in classical physics, or what is learnt early on.
The clue is we need both.
Start with logical deduction (formal logic is another way to explain this) and the pattern for formal logic or logical deduction, is thorough but stops short when we assume or deduce an answer. In other words, when we have the right -answer- we often stop short of thinking post formally, or ask are there other answers? Or, why not have more than one answer? This pattern is likened to -scale- and -magnitude-. It is that we are -right- but being right (deductively so) is just -size-, it only has magnitude, it is a scalar. Like temperature, or speed, deductive thinking stops at being just right, stops and at size, is a scalar.
Going back to what is -interesting-, it could be that when the thinking system is interested, although at the expense of not being totally on the mark for being -right-, it has a greater diversity and is able to see more laterally (liken to inductive reasoning). So here starts the vector. Interesting is a vector. How about, being -interesting and right- as apposed to just being -right-, or having only magnitude, the vector has both magnitude (scale) and direction, it is both interesting and right, it’s a vector.
Incidently, I am making a hypothesis and it need not be right, but it’s sure as hell interesting!
Claire
December 30th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
my IP address is a cheat.
I think that tiny website must be sponsored by the optometrists lobby.