No one should be allowed to use the word "infinite" or "finite" until they first receive a degree in math, or until they have those concepts explained to them by someone that knows what they mean.
Math & Physics people use the word differently...
Re:Infinite is REALLY REALLY big
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ahhh...but how big does something need to be to be "infinite"? in math? or in physics? which metaphor are we using? (remember that pure math decries anything "real")
things that are microscopicly large can be macroscopicly small thus a glass of water is "an infinite heat bath" to a spoon... but the room is "an infinite heat bath" to the glass of water... infinities get tossed around alot in physics... is one of the reasons its so fun!
thus "infinity" is (i suggest) relative to the observer
Re:cyberspace is multi-dimensional
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agrees in general...but... would suggest that we are dealing with "interest" rather than something as simple as "mass" or "charge"... all quantum particles are indistinguishable... websites are perhaps exactly opposite
"Information = food" actually what really more accurate is: "food is a form of information" consider thermodynamics a closed system must move to a state of maximum entropy...but we are not closed systems...we are open systems in a far from equilibrium state... so we absorb order from our enviornment to maintain our dissipative structures... said absorbtion of order is fundamental you see it in convection currents as well as cell metabolism...as well as institutions
In response to the posts suggesting that less guru programmers could be of help, I am responding. CopyLeft is a beautiful concept. I have had some programming classes, but doubt I'd be of much use (yet) in that regard. I tutor quite well, though, and suspect I might be helpful in writing help content (especially for the other "less than guru" level users). I can read C and C++, and trace bugs (did a stint for Pacific Gas and Electric doing maintence coding in Fortran 77 one summer...). Finals are over(!) and I am looking for projects for the summer. (I am a physics senior, looking at double BS in Math & Physics...then double MS eventually.)
I believe you have this backwards. The thing to consider is the POTENTIAL FIELD one must over to "climb" the steepness. Your analogy assumes a konstant velocity irregardless of the slope. But try running on flat ground vs. running up a ladder. If the ladder is at a 45 degree angle how long to move 1 mile projected upon the time axis? You only get the dot product...that is your time movement is the Cos(angle)...if you have an infinte learning curve you don't EVER move forward...you are "climbing a rope straight up" to try to move foreward... No matter how smart...can't get to NY from LA if I climb a rope to the moon...
You leave out an entire population... What about "content developers" and computational science people? I need to do numerical analysis. I know.86 assembly, basic, fortran, C/C++, Java, TCL/TK...and never want to rebuild a kernel. Why should I? I want to develop Computational Chem and Physics programs...and Computational based Visualization programs. I am not an unwashed (well i could use a shower) clueless AOL user...but I am not even a newbie yet...
Actually i wiped MS Works cause I only have 2.1Gbytes...I use Netscape Composer as my word processor...but I look forward to WordPerfect (just wish their was a Mathematica extension to WP like their is to MS Word and Excel.) In terms of StarOffice I am downloadiing the free Win version as I type this, just to play. (Won't make the move to linux 'till after finals).
OK, i am a techie. A physics guy who seems stuck to his computer. But i don't know linux. I have the student version of Wolfram's Mathematica (and thats what my University uses so no maple for me), so I'm not gonna shell out the cash for Linux Mathematica. So I have to have a dual boot machine. Caldera seems to make the transition process painless. I like painless. Think I will make the plunge this summer after finals. In terms of "GUI is for wimps"...i will be developing in Java soas to be able to port my Mathematica Statistical Thermodynamics E-Book to the Physics dept computers. Don't think any of us are "wimps"...tried any Statistical Quantum Mechanics lately? But if its not a GUI system they won't even consider looking at it...and are there non-graphical systems that can display formated mathML?
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I read man pages...but i will also browse an encyclopedia...
if more hardware can be added fast enough...it is effectively infinite
until the boundary is actually met the effectively infinite and the truely infinite won't be distingushable...accept in religious debates
good posting, slacker!
Math & Physics people use the word differently...
in math? or in physics? which metaphor are we using?
(remember that pure math decries anything "real")
things that are microscopicly large can be macroscopicly small
thus a glass of water is "an infinite heat bath" to a spoon...
but the room is "an infinite heat bath" to the glass of water...
infinities get tossed around alot in physics...
is one of the reasons its so fun!
thus "infinity" is (i suggest) relative to the observer
agrees in general...but...
would suggest that we are dealing with "interest" rather than something as simple as "mass" or "charge"...
all quantum particles are indistinguishable...
websites are perhaps exactly opposite
"Information = food" actually what really more accurate is: "food is a form of information" consider thermodynamics a closed system must move to a state of maximum entropy...but we are not closed systems...we are open systems in a far from equilibrium state... so we absorb order from our enviornment to maintain our dissipative structures... said absorbtion of order is fundamental you see it in convection currents as well as cell metabolism...as well as institutions
In response to the posts suggesting that less guru programmers could be of help, I am responding. CopyLeft is a beautiful concept. I have had some programming classes, but doubt I'd be of much use (yet) in that regard. I tutor quite well, though, and suspect I might be helpful in writing help content (especially for the other "less than guru" level users). I can read C and C++, and trace bugs (did a stint for Pacific Gas and Electric doing maintence coding in Fortran 77 one summer...). Finals are over(!) and I am looking for projects for the summer. (I am a physics senior, looking at double BS in Math & Physics...then double MS eventually.)
I believe you have this backwards. The thing to consider is the POTENTIAL FIELD one must over to "climb" the steepness. Your analogy assumes a konstant velocity irregardless of the slope. But try running on flat ground vs. running up a ladder. If the ladder is at a 45 degree angle how long to move 1 mile projected upon the time axis? You only get the dot product...that is your time movement is the Cos(angle)...if you have an infinte learning curve you don't EVER move forward...you are "climbing a rope straight up" to try to move foreward... No matter how smart...can't get to NY from LA if I climb a rope to the moon...
You leave out an entire population... What about "content developers" and computational science people? I need to do numerical analysis. I know .86 assembly, basic, fortran, C/C++, Java, TCL/TK...and never want to rebuild a kernel. Why should I? I want to develop Computational Chem and Physics programs...and Computational based Visualization programs. I am not an unwashed (well i could use a shower) clueless AOL user...but I am not even a newbie yet...
Actually i wiped MS Works cause I only have 2.1Gbytes...I use Netscape Composer as my word processor...but I look forward to WordPerfect (just wish their was a Mathematica extension to WP like their is to MS Word and Excel.) In terms of StarOffice I am downloadiing the free Win version as I type this, just to play. (Won't make the move to linux 'till after finals).
Training Wheels? YES! Can always take them off, but if i fall down and go boom it could be a bloody disaster...
OK, i am a techie. A physics guy who seems stuck to his computer. But i don't know linux. I have the student version of Wolfram's Mathematica (and thats what my University uses so no maple for me), so I'm not gonna shell out the cash for Linux Mathematica. So I have to have a dual boot machine. Caldera seems to make the transition process painless. I like painless. Think I will make the plunge this summer after finals. In terms of "GUI is for wimps"...i will be developing in Java soas to be able to port my Mathematica Statistical Thermodynamics E-Book to the Physics dept computers. Don't think any of us are "wimps"...tried any Statistical Quantum Mechanics lately? But if its not a GUI system they won't even consider looking at it...and are there non-graphical systems that can display formated mathML?