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From: troll on 15 May 2010 15:09

This is clearly proof that Good has created
the universe. Good could never come up
with a number less perfect than 6.02 x 10**23.

6.02 x 10**23 is clearly the answer to the
meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

Either that or there is something wrong
with the Metric system.
From: rabid_fan on 15 May 2010 15:22
On Sat, 15 May 2010 11:12:10 -0700, hanson wrote:

> It is well know though that
> mathematicians have tendencies to complicate things to make them
> incomprehensible and useless.

This is inaccurate. The writers of official textbooks and other
formalized mathematical presentations, who must adhere to established
traditions or rigor, are responsible for rendering the subject into an
inaccessible morass.

Eliminate these effete jackasses and mathematics will become
free, clear, and SIMPLE.

From: troll on 15 May 2010 15:31

Through my infinite power to snap my fingers and
make the Conférence générale des poids et
mesures cater to my every whim, I hereby define
the Sept as equal to the amount of mass of
one septillion atoms of Carbon 12.

One Sept is equal to about 19.93 grams.
From: troll on 15 May 2010 15:46

I have changed my mind. It will now not be called
a Sept. It will instead be a Yoda.

Short for Yotta-derived C12-atom aggregate mass.
From: rabid_fan on 15 May 2010 17:10
On Sat, 15 May 2010 21:25:14 +0100, Androcles wrote:

>
> Dunno about Broadway, I live in England.

That's obvious: "Colour" "Recognise"

But there are other indicators as well.


> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpEWpK_Dl7M
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggV_Dbj87w
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8VH0sbEU20&NR=1
> It'll be heard this year, too.
>
>
> When's the last time (or first time) you stood in a crowd in Hyde Park
> or heard a concert in the Royal Albert Hall?
> http://www.london-insider.co.uk/2010/04/highlights-guide-bbc-summer-proms-2010/
> We'll make more money and stir up more patriotism than Broadway ever
> could. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
>
> I would notice one wrong note in a symphony. You would too if you were
> familiar with the work.


In England, a performer would probably be heavily fined, if not
jailed (gaoled?), for producing a wrong note.

Ah, yes. Such is the result of centuries of stuffy English
indoctrination.

Actually, there are no "wrong notes." Everything is relative
to a particular scale. If all one can perceive are the standard
scales, then one is destined to be severely prejudiced.

Music has for a long time been liberated from the prison of
the traditional scales. Unfortunately, only a select few (dare I
say chosen few?) can appreciate the liberation.

When is the last time Arnold Schoenberg has been performed in
Hyde Park? Whew! What a trip for the English that would be!

But Schoenberg was only the beginning. The ultimate musical
style is no style, a.k.a. microtonality, a system of organization
where anything is possible.

Ah, yes. Microtoanlity. Wrong notes galore! What a treat for the
circumscribed English ear!

Make more room in your prisons and gaols. The New Music is
now upon us. The English will reel at the chaos.


>
> In fact, human beings are exceptionally good at pattern recognition,
>

This must be qualified by stating that it pertains only to patterns
that have relevance to humanity.

> we recognise
> faces because we practice looking at faces. In fact it doesn't always
> work, if the
> face is the wrong colour or shape then
> http://alllooksame.com/
>

Faces *do* all look the same. I can look at a person and immediately
recognize the characteristics that place that person within a certain
racial or regional group (e.g. central European, northern European, etc.)
Such characteristics are extremely difficult to quantify using anything
other than a series of visual depictions.

I wouldn't call it practice, however. It is just an augmentation,
or maybe supplementation, of the inborn circuitry that is acquired
through experience and learning. Other brain areas beyond the visual,
face-recognizing, cortex may be involved.

> In fact, actually, people start a sentence with "In fact" to reassure
> themselves that
> they want to believe what they about to say but have some doubt about
> it;

These are just quirks and foibles of casual speech. It may have that
meaning but it also may not have that meaning. A more in-depth analysis
would be required to arrive at something conclusive and indisputable.


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