Hindu theology is very different from christian theology. The Brihat Vishnu Purana states that "the aquatic life precedes the monkey life" and that "the monkey life is the precursor of the human life." (From:http://www.atributetohinduism.com/thoughts.h tm)
In the Mundaka Upanishad(chap.1, verse. 7), we find this verse:
As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread,
as plants grow on the earth,
as hair grows on the head and the body of a living man
--so does everything in the universe arise from the Imperishable.
There is no conflict between this verse and
the theory of evolution. Also the verse makes no
reference to a creator of any sort. Here, the
imperishable is interpreted to mean an algorithm
or program in the same sense as the Platonic world
of pure mathematical objects.
I wonder how this argorithm replaces lost information. If you look at the pictures, the names of the authors in the textbook dont change from the two persepectives, i.e. the shadowed name remains that way. Seems like a fortunate coincidence.
The difference is that you are comparing the information theoretic compressibility(which depends entirely on the statistics of a sequence) with the Kolmogorov complexity(which talks about the shortest program/algorithm which will generate the sequence).
So obviously, even the random number generators have a very small Kolmogorov complexity(given the initial state, you can reproduce the sequence exactly), but from a information theoretic point of view, their output is virtually uncompressible.
You know, this story should have been posted under the hardware section. Why? I think the big nut symbol is really appropriate for people who believe this kind of bunk.
And Marconi did not invent Wireless communications. It was demonstrated at least a couple of years prior to him by the brilliant Indian inventor Sir Jagadish C. Bose. Bose also had a solid educational background having studied under Lord Rayleigh in Cambridge.
"In 1895 Bose gave his first public demonstration of electromagnetic waves, using them to ring a bell remotely and to explode some gunpowder. In 1896 the Daily Chronicle of England reported: "The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted signals to a distance of nearly a mile and herein lies the first and obvious and exceedingly valuable application of this new theoretical marvel." Popov in Russia was doing similar experiments, but had written in December 1895 that he was still entertaining the hope of remote signalling with radio waves. The first successful wireless signalling experiment by Marconi on Salisbury Plain in England was not until May 1897. The 1895 public demonstration by Bose in Calcutta predates all these experiments. Invited by Lord Rayleigh, in 1897 Bose reported on his microwave (millimeter-wave) experiments to the Royal Institution and other societies in England."
The same article also notes that he was the first to use a semiconductor diode, nearly fifty years prior to the invention of the transistor.
"Although it appears that Bose's demonstration of remote wireless signalling has priority over Marconi, he was the first to use a semiconductor junction to detect radio waves, and he invented various now commonplace microwave components, outside of India he is rarely given the deserved recognition. Further work at millimeter wavelengths was almost nonexistent for nearly 50 years. J.C. Bose was at least this much ahead of his time."
One of the authors in this study(http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~astubble/) gives a lower bound of 24(!) for the number of times his projects have been mentioned on Slashdot.
After I installed SP2 on my laptop, my Outlook Express was reset. I used to store all of my email in local folders on Outlook. I did find the archives in the Program Files folder on my comp but Outlook did not allow me to re-load my old identity. It asks for some specific file name extension which does not exist in that folder.
Maybe that was a little too much detail, but I'm curious if anyone else had the same problem...
I was really pissed off by the fact that Windows XP is supposed to be user-friendly-no-brainer kind of a thing, but a non-geek user would have no idea how to retrieve the lost email.
I think this NYTimes article had a nice justification for both the cost and delay in the project:
Dr. Everitt agreed. "We could have done it better and quicker, but not enormously quicker," he said, adding:
"The medieval cathedral builders took longer."
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Hindu theology is very different from christian theology. The Brihat Vishnu Purana states that "the aquatic life precedes the monkey life" and that "the monkey life is the precursor of the human life." (From:http://www.atributetohinduism.com/thoughts.h tm)
In the Mundaka Upanishad(chap.1, verse. 7), we find this verse:
As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread,
as plants grow on the earth,
as hair grows on the head and the body of a living man
--so does everything in the universe arise from the Imperishable.
There is no conflict between this verse and the theory of evolution. Also the verse makes no reference to a creator of any sort. Here, the imperishable is interpreted to mean an algorithm or program in the same sense as the Platonic world of pure mathematical objects.
The original Guardian story claims it cost 1.5 Trillion British pounds!5 58354,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,1
I wonder how this argorithm replaces lost information. If you look at the pictures, the names of the authors in the textbook dont change from the two persepectives, i.e. the shadowed name remains that way. Seems like a fortunate coincidence.
(I have only seen the pictures, not the video.)
In Soviet Russia, the sheep count you!
The difference is that you are comparing the information theoretic compressibility(which depends entirely on the statistics of a sequence) with the Kolmogorov complexity(which talks about the shortest program/algorithm which will generate the sequence). So obviously, even the random number generators have a very small Kolmogorov complexity(given the initial state, you can reproduce the sequence exactly), but from a information theoretic point of view, their output is virtually uncompressible.
Thanks to the Internet, the majority are alienated from the mainstream.
You know, this story should have been posted under the hardware section. Why? I think the big nut symbol is really appropriate for people who believe this kind of bunk.
Not intending to be mean, but it must be a pain to surf slashdot on a 56K connection.
From: http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html
The same article also notes that he was the first to use a semiconductor diode, nearly fifty years prior to the invention of the transistor.
One of the authors in this study(http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~astubble/) gives a lower bound of 24(!) for the number of times his projects have been mentioned on Slashdot.
After I installed SP2 on my laptop, my Outlook Express was reset. I used to store all of my email in local folders on Outlook. I did find the archives in the Program Files folder on my comp but Outlook did not allow me to re-load my old identity. It asks for some specific file name extension which does not exist in that folder. Maybe that was a little too much detail, but I'm curious if anyone else had the same problem... I was really pissed off by the fact that Windows XP is supposed to be user-friendly-no-brainer kind of a thing, but a non-geek user would have no idea how to retrieve the lost email.
I think this NYTimes article had a nice justification for both the cost and delay in the project:
Dr. Everitt agreed. "We could have done it better and quicker, but not enormously quicker," he said, adding: "The medieval cathedral builders took longer."
How about an optional logout for one week? or even better - a National 404 Not Found week - all websites shut down!
"It came to me in a moment of Linspiration"
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets! Shucks!
My Very Extravagant Mother Just Sent Us Nine Parrots, Sweetheart
My Very Early Model Jaguar Just Smashed Up Near Pierre's Saloon
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets! Shucks! My Very Extravagant Mother Just Sent Us Nine Parrots, Sweetheart My Very Early Model Jaguar Just Smashed Up Near Pierre's Saloon