jakelafort

Well, at least we now might know where he got his brain worm from. And to think I ran close to it on a 5K run!

Strega gets her fingerprints sent to space forever and I could be spending my days on the look out for pic-a-nic baskets 🙂

In The Washington Post, Amanda Katz noted that Kennedy had terminated his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, “ending a dilemma for voters torn between their love of deportation camps and their love of measles.”

🙂

Thanks Strega, have a colorful day 🙂

Have a great week!

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

–Jidda Krishnamurti

Here’s another weird number from mathematics. It’s called “i” (the letter between h and j in the standard alphabet). I wasn’t absolutely sure mathematicians consider it a number, so I asked the Gemini AI “is i considered to be a number in mathematics?” and got this reply:

Yes, i is considered a number in mathematics.

While it might seem unusual…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
For me, numbers and letters all carry specific colours, shades and textures. Z is dark blue and velvety. No idea why, but it is.

If I give you the number Pi, what color comes to mind?

I knew someone who claimed to have synesthesia but I think it was just a pigment of their imagination.

Simon Paynton wrote:
It looks hard. Does it have any practical applications?

I seem to remember something related to the Riemann hypothesis.

Okay, I have changed my mind and I will pick the other half of the box 🙂

@_Robert_  The system is really “out of the box” thinking. Or in the box. Well, let’s just use half a box.

If I was doing some acid I would have trouble deciding which half of the box to use 🙂

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@unseen – The Law of Forms is a very interesting idea. I had never heard of it before. It is like applying an “Occam’s Razor” to algebra.

Many years ago, when I was in college, I was obsessed with logic, so I studied Russel, Carnap, the early Wittgenstein, and others. However, when I stumbled onto Laws of Form, i…[Read more]

@Unseen – The Law of Forms is a very interesting idea. I had never heard of it before. It is like applying an “Occam’s Razor” to algebra.

_Robert_ wrote:
Not much programming you can’t do using only AND, OR, NOT, IF (x) THEN (y) logical. statements

Yeah, there are many ways of writing functionally identical logical forms.

BTW, you might be interested in G. Spencer Brown’s logical calculus as presented in his classic book, Laws of Form. His logic is notable for not having four b…[Read more]

@jakelafort I have for a long time thought people can be programmed with any beliefs I used to think it required early indoctrination…

It reminds me of a recent conversation I had with an Evangelical of some type. He was trying to tell me that he did not believe in Evolution. I told him I agreed with him. He looked puzzled and asked me to e…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
He thinks he is a patriot but will kill for his God. LOL. Get down and give me 2 push-ups soldier.

Simon Paynton wrote:
There are always going to be hot-headed nutters.  A certain person whips them up.  You’re right, it’s not patriotic at all.

My first thought when he said the military won’t fight patriots, while…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
I guess that sounds childish, but sometimes, exasperated words fail me.

LOL, I’m laughing for real, because I must have spent ten minutes rewording my post because it sounded so childish! I wanted to make fun of those guys soooo badly.

There’s surely some kind of us-vs-them instinct that kicks in, especially when a cult-like…[Read more]