And Thus He Spake
John Underkoffler is the man behind the technology that created a stir when it first appeared in a movie - "The Minority Report". The technology I'm talking about is the flashy & hyper-realistic interactive computer screens shown in the movie. Currently, Underkoffler and Raytheon are working on a project - gspeak - that hopes to bring this celluloid fantasy to life. As usual, the US Defence gets their first hands on it, before it hits the market. Bring on the goodness anyway, I say.
Fitt's Law
In the era of creative and slick computer user-interfaces, the revolving factor that all UI designers must consider is the end user's comfort and ease-of-use with the design. The user must be an active and involved part of the interface, not just a hapless by-stander. Thus, Fitt's Law plays the central role in determining the quality of user interfaces ; such as OS X and Windows. Moreover, the law is also intuitive ; yet no successful renditions of it are prevalent. Maybe, we need to give it more time.
Crystal Clear
The Crystallographic pattern of DNA by Rosalind Franklin.
X-Ray Crystallography:
1. http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/x-ray.html
2. http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/experimental_methods.html
X-Ray Crystallography:
1. http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/x-ray.html
2. http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/experimental_methods.html
The ultimate GEEK phone
Nokia sure knows how to rake in the moolah!!!! When the Nokia G33K hits the market, I'm pretty sure everyone's gonna go ga-ga over it ; And if looks can kill, then this is gonna cause a massacre. Sign me up for one of these bad boys.
Parrhesia
Parrhesia - Free Speech
A verbal activity in which a speaker expresses his personal relationship to truth, and risks his life because he recognizes truth-telling as a duty to improve or help other people (as well as himself). In parrhesia, the speaker uses his freedom and chooses frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.
(Wordsmith & Wikipedia)
Cry
Vagitus - The cry of a newborn child.
A newborn child's cry is called vagitus. Babies' cries have been heard even before their births. It's rare but vagitus uterinus has been observed on occasions when the membranes rupture, allowing air to enter the uterine cavity. (via Wordsmith).
A newborn child's cry is called vagitus. Babies' cries have been heard even before their births. It's rare but vagitus uterinus has been observed on occasions when the membranes rupture, allowing air to enter the uterine cavity. (via Wordsmith).
Chaos
"Does order come out of chaos?"
When someone asked Feynman this question, he was stumped, unable to answer. But, there's this wonderful paper ( The Arnold Cat-Map ) that shows that order ( or more specifically, order that once was ) can be made chaotic and vice-versa. This paper applies only for images though. But, there's one thing bothering me. Since chaos derives from order itself, isn't it just order, but in a more abstract form? In this case, all that seperates chaos and order is a set of equations. It's exactly like saying energy equals c squared times mass. They're one and the same entity. Just different forms. Only here, c squared evaluates to the result of the matrix, that's all. So it's not exactly chaos if it comes out of order, is it? Which throws up another interesting question. Where does chaos originate? Who gives it birth, feeds electricity through its mangled brains and screams hysterically, "It's ALIVE!!! IT'S ALIVE!!!!?" Definitely not order, I know that much.
When someone asked Feynman this question, he was stumped, unable to answer. But, there's this wonderful paper ( The Arnold Cat-Map ) that shows that order ( or more specifically, order that once was ) can be made chaotic and vice-versa. This paper applies only for images though. But, there's one thing bothering me. Since chaos derives from order itself, isn't it just order, but in a more abstract form? In this case, all that seperates chaos and order is a set of equations. It's exactly like saying energy equals c squared times mass. They're one and the same entity. Just different forms. Only here, c squared evaluates to the result of the matrix, that's all. So it's not exactly chaos if it comes out of order, is it? Which throws up another interesting question. Where does chaos originate? Who gives it birth, feeds electricity through its mangled brains and screams hysterically, "It's ALIVE!!! IT'S ALIVE!!!!?" Definitely not order, I know that much.
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Although I hate to admit it, I suffer from acute short-term memory (STM) when it comes to remembering certain things; things such as names, places, facts or numbers indict the least amount of impact on me; and they’re washed away with the same amount of ferocity that water from the ocean recedes from a shore. I land into so many interesting things with each passing day that the only way to remember them, I figured, was to jot them down somewhere. Hence, this blog. A mathematically inclined reason for this blog would be
Purpose -> Action.
Purpose.
Action.
Modus Ponens.
Also, unlike my other blog, I intend to update this at least once or twice a day. So, hang around these pages once in a while. You just might find something interesting.
