Prime Obsession Not Really Recommended
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Prime Obsession
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His writing style is horrible. He needs an editor desperately. Prime Obsession does contain some interesting mathematical tidbits and some interesting historical anecdotes but overall it's just a really dull read.
Today, many companies won't consider applicants who do not live in the same city as where the job is located. So even if you don't care about moving wherever the job is you're screwed because they'll throw your resume into the trash as soon as they see that your address is not near them.
Why do they mostly end up in the construction business if they have college degrees? Doesn't Portugal acknowledge degrees from Eastern European countries?
As I understand it, he usually had a mathematical assistant to help him out with the heavy duty math. I remember reading a passage in some book where Einstein was in despair because he couldn't complete his work on general relativity but fortunately some mathematician told him about Riemannian geometry and, I think, that solved most of his problems.
I don't know if there's anything to it or not. He may be a quack but then again maybe not. I read somewhere that Nature was about to publish or perhaps did publish his work on water memory and some scientists got all riled up. Allegedly they sent the editor of Nature and James Randi to debunk him.
Was that the appearance where he was on that spaceship battling wits with the alien creature who was disguised as a human? That was an interesting story arc. I think it was two episodes with the first one having the astronaut being captured by the aliens and evidently transformed into an alien. The second story had Wil as a cadet on the ship and trying to set the ship to deliver the bombs onto the alien homeworld. It was a cool episode.
They profiled a girl who they said was the first person to recover from a car accident where she ended up quadraplegic. They gave her some sort of treatment (probably with stem cells) within a couple of days I think and she was able to walk again (albeit with crutches at the time of the show) after a few months.
They commented that the treatment that the girl received could not help Christopher Reeves because too many years had passed since his accident.
Look at how he consistently keeps calling it Chaitin complexity even though everybody else calls it Kolmogorov complexity. AFAIK, Kolmogorov discovered it first.
"3. One of the reasons that Da Vinci's inventions are so famous is that, while they are obviously shockingly ahead of their time, no-one knows in many cases whether they were ever built, whether they worked, or even what they were for. Any progress in unravelling these mysteries is a significant step towards understanding Da Vinci himself (For the point of this, see point 1 above)."
It is too bad that there wasn't a New York Times of the day reporting how Mr. da Vinci had showcased a mechanical toy at don Medici's villa.;)
"Rutan's accomplishment was impressive, but as has been pointed out in other discussions, it was essentially a high-flying airplane rather than a true spaceship, and doesn't scale well."
I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. Maybe you do but then again maybe not. Rutan was interviewed on 60 minutes this last Sunday and he showed Ed Bradley his plans for a multipassenger spacecraft and orbiting hotel. It looks like he has big plans if only he can get the funding to complete his dreams.
Another thing that was interesting from the program was that he said that sometimes he doesn't know how to do something and so he will challenge himself to stumble where he does not know how to tread. He developed the "feather" concept in this manner. It sounds very intriguing and it's his way to make that kind of travel safe.
"She's lucky that she wasn't declared a terrorist and her all human rights voided on sight."
This is an interesting line of thought. What would happen if Bush declared Kerry and Edwards terrorists and because of his Patriot Act powers sent them incommunicado to Guantanamo, Cuba?
What could anyone do to counter this? Anyone?
Didn't something similar happen in Post-Weimar Republic Germany?
of the modern era. Mathematicians at St. Petersburg were still publishing his stuff seventy years after he died. I sometimes see mathematicians claiming that Gauss was the greatest but I don't think he stacks up against Euler.
"I might not have that exactly right, but as I understand it he was struggling with the math too."
You've got it right. Einstein was no slouch mathematically but his real abilities laid in physics and gedankenexperiments. That's why he usually had a mathematician as an assistant or collaborator. Simply because he wasn't enough of an expert in mathematics to be able to do all of the work on his own.
From what I recall he was really really stuck for a couple of years until a friend who was a mathematician suggested Riemannian geometry then things started to click in Einstein's mind.
"After all, how many times have I gone jogging down the forest trail and seen every small furry critter flee in a blind panic because I happened to pass near by."
Well, if you there was some race of creatures that were ten times bigger than humans that would occasionally eat one of our kind then wouldn't you flee in a blind panic if they happened by?
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His writing style is horrible. He needs an editor desperately. Prime Obsession does contain some interesting mathematical tidbits and some interesting historical anecdotes but overall it's just a really dull read.
Today, many companies won't consider applicants who do not live in the same city as where the job is located. So even if you don't care about moving wherever the job is you're screwed because they'll throw your resume into the trash as soon as they see that your address is not near them.
At one point she was speaking with an odd accent in interviews which I guess she thought sounded cool and Argentinian but it sounded dumb.
Gee I hope he doesn't play Princess Leia in a bikini! Ewwww!!
Did the mathematicians take it over?
Why do they mostly end up in the construction business if they have college degrees? Doesn't Portugal acknowledge degrees from Eastern European countries?
As I understand it, he usually had a mathematical assistant to help him out with the heavy duty math. I remember reading a passage in some book where Einstein was in despair because he couldn't complete his work on general relativity but fortunately some mathematician told him about Riemannian geometry and, I think, that solved most of his problems.
"Probably not."
Memory of Water
I don't know if there's anything to it or not. He may be a quack but then again maybe not. I read somewhere that Nature was about to publish or perhaps did publish his work on water memory and some scientists got all riled up. Allegedly they sent the editor of Nature and James Randi to debunk him.
Actually, I think you meant to write:
That's
and not
Thats
Courtesy of your friendly neighborhood punctuation Nazi.
Was that the appearance where he was on that spaceship battling wits with the alien creature who was disguised as a human? That was an interesting story arc. I think it was two episodes with the first one having the astronaut being captured by the aliens and evidently transformed into an alien. The second story had Wil as a cadet on the ship and trying to set the ship to deliver the bombs onto the alien homeworld. It was a cool episode.
They commented that the treatment that the girl received could not help Christopher Reeves because too many years had passed since his accident.
AFAIK, this program was on several years ago.
Don't her patients have any sphincter control?
Look at how he consistently keeps calling it Chaitin complexity even though everybody else calls it Kolmogorov complexity. AFAIK, Kolmogorov discovered it first.
Naturally, since he held the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge (same chair as Newton).
It is too bad that there wasn't a New York Times of the day reporting how Mr. da Vinci had showcased a mechanical toy at don Medici's villa. ;)
Do you have any numbers from a reputable website to back up these claims? I'm not necessarily doubting you but I would like to see some real data.
I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. Maybe you do but then again maybe not. Rutan was interviewed on 60 minutes this last Sunday and he showed Ed Bradley his plans for a multipassenger spacecraft and orbiting hotel. It looks like he has big plans if only he can get the funding to complete his dreams.
Another thing that was interesting from the program was that he said that sometimes he doesn't know how to do something and so he will challenge himself to stumble where he does not know how to tread. He developed the "feather" concept in this manner. It sounds very intriguing and it's his way to make that kind of travel safe.
This is an interesting line of thought. What would happen if Bush declared Kerry and Edwards terrorists and because of his Patriot Act powers sent them incommunicado to Guantanamo, Cuba?
What could anyone do to counter this? Anyone?
Didn't something similar happen in Post-Weimar Republic Germany?
of the modern era. Mathematicians at St. Petersburg were still publishing his stuff seventy years after he died. I sometimes see mathematicians claiming that Gauss was the greatest but I don't think he stacks up against Euler.
Really? That's absurd. How can they tell if you're wearing an undershirt or not?
C'mon, it's trivial. Those are the comments in the code.
You've got it right. Einstein was no slouch mathematically but his real abilities laid in physics and gedankenexperiments. That's why he usually had a mathematician as an assistant or collaborator. Simply because he wasn't enough of an expert in mathematics to be able to do all of the work on his own.
From what I recall he was really really stuck for a couple of years until a friend who was a mathematician suggested Riemannian geometry then things started to click in Einstein's mind.
Well, if you there was some race of creatures that were ten times bigger than humans that would occasionally eat one of our kind then wouldn't you flee in a blind panic if they happened by?