Discovered this chemistry resource with Java applets.There is so much information on the web that it makes education easy for a polymath. Chemical kinetic is an area of interest and I hope to extend this to interface with my bioinformatics tools.
Also this YouTube video from Google is way funny and extremely informative for somebody who wants to consider what does the this.java.code really do and why doesn't it do what I expect?
I also watched a Google video from Douglas Hofstadter of GEB fame, about Kurzwell and singularity. He makes some valid points and in my estimation, they are both wrong. They approach the same concept with different perspective, but when these things unfold, they present "things" which have never been observed before and as a result cannot be discussed as they never existed before they "emerged". It becomes an issue of predicting the future and that is not possible. So my opinion is that they look at what could be , consider what it means , and assume that is the end of the story. That is the problem, it is an unfolding of something that never becomes completely unfolded, it is the unknown and as such it may look like what they predict at some point in time, but it reveals new possibilities and new problems. The answer is that there is no final answer. Even in find bugs.
I see many things that could be and they can't all coexist. Things and methods become dominant or fade when new methods appear. A liquid "Terminator" might be the idea of the ultimate terminator, but it is just a passing fanciful concept of that which could be if the story ended there. I want to see a cage match between "Body Snatchers", "Wolverine", "Firestarter", "Carrie", "Scrooge McDuck", "Frankenstein", "Shirley Temple", "Genghis Khan", "The Godfather", "The Borg", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Terminator and T2", "McGuyver", "KGB", "The Q Continuum", "Alien", "Dr Who", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Predator", "Superman", "Godzilla", "Tyrannosaurus Rex", "Harry Potter", "Dirty Harry", "The Goa'uld", "Babe Ruth", "USAF", "Mick Jagger" , "Samurai" and "The Puppet Masters".
0 comments:
Post a Comment