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Pascal's Wager converted me from Catholicism to Agnosticism!Just an FYI? Pascal’s wager was satire.
He wasn’t very religious, (although he was highly affected by and effected the religious community to great extent), and Pascal’s wager does not apply where reason applies. He says as much in Pensees.
That religious people still use it to today shows their ignorance of mathematics, and the success of the satire. (Indeed, it was somewhat strengthened, in their eyes, by his refutation of every other major religion in the rest of the book, but the book was mainly his normal use of satire, as seen in the Lettres Provinciales. I might remind you that he had something of a negative view of Jansenites from his dealing with them in Port Royal, (” . . .I’m beginning to suspect that they act most like a cult, swallowing inheritances and giving little back.” ). Also remember that religion, at the time, was BIG. Religious leaders had comparable power to that of Kings. So, that Pascal was so involved with religion does not mean that he was religious himself, (as many people bumume, proofless), just as being involved in politics in a capitalist country does not make you capitalist, nor a politician, nor someone who believes in the gov’t (non-religious sense)).
I’m looking about for a good math based article with no strong bias to explain it fully, however the most popular reference sources, (ie: wikipedia), are heavily influenced by religion, and most academic sources are heavily influenced by anti-religious sources. Neither are thus suitable.
Just understand that any of the logical fallacies you see there, such as false dilemma, are strawmen for a much stronger reason that one should NOT worship god, (any god). A mathematical and counter-intuitive result of decision theory on infinite rewards. (And of course, again, not an absolute reason) (view post) |
01/30/2010 |
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Puzzle 142 The Scholar's LifeLot of ambiguity in the question.
For example: Did the child live for half as long as he had at that point, or half as long as he did in total, including 4 years?
If the child lived half as long as he did, at that point, then
x = X/6 + x/7 + x/12 + 5 until he got married x = x * 33/84 + 5. For the child to be half his age would require the child to be x * 33/84 + 5 old when he dies. So at the time the child dies, the man is twice that. x = x * 66/84 + 10 And he lives 4 more years. x = x * 66/84 + 14 18/84 * x = 14 x = 65 & 1/3, quite a bit different from the 84 years you get from the contrary bumumption!
In fact, there are 32 different possible interpretations of the question. Very badly worded.
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01/29/2010 |
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Pre-Orders for Episode 3 now available!Can’t hardly wait e-peen. (view post) |
12/15/2009 |
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proofIt’s a tricky question, because many people were involved in many aspects of the computer. It wasn’t a one-man job, just like Oppenheimer didn’t invent the atomic bomb.
Some people argue that some guy called . .. Zuse, Conrad? Maybe? Was the creator of the first working computer, which is about as close you can get to a single answer as to who invented the computer. (Different from created) His computer, the Z4, was the first commercial computer, before UNIVAC even, but even before that, the Z3 was the the first fully functional, turing complete, programmable machine. He lost most of his work on it during the bombing of Berlin. The Z2 and Z1 can also be considered computers, but they required programming outside of internal memory, something which we rejected in Babbages machine. (view post) |
12/15/2009 |
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Now write me a script for 50 BP?Looks like something I’d knock together with iMacros, then edit that uncontrolled script for grease monkey.
Heck, creative use of iMacros could get you all the way there if I’m thinking right.
You have a whole bunch of a few items, and you want to auction them all, right? So make an iMacro for one item of which you have many duplicates, loop it.
Only thing you’d really need to edit would be something to output the URL when it’s done one loop and is at the bidding page. (view post) |
12/15/2009 |
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Pre-Orders for Episode 3 now available![insert Obligatory “I ordered this” comment.] (view post) |
12/15/2009 |
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proofThat’s actually pretty good. Babbage is not quite an acceptable answer. He did create the analytical machine, (in theory), and a machine to write his sermons for him, (did build it, but someone ordered it destroyed and he blew it up trying to get at least one sermon out of it). He is sometimes credited as the father of the mechanical computer, but if we accept the mechanical computer, he wasn’t the first to come up with gear-powered calculating device, nor did he come up with any sort of general memory for such a device, which is desired to call something a computer as according to computer science.
More to the point, his machine WOULD have been turing complete, IF he had finished the designs and intended functions. He did not do so before his death.
(Nevertheless, in nanocomputing, his work is arising once again to give rise to extremely small mechanical logic circuits, and we now know much more about circuits, such that we can complete the machine) (view post) |
12/15/2009 |
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proofWould you mind naming the inventors of penicillin or the computer off the top of your head? (view post) |
12/14/2009 |
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I am haunted by a demon from the past WRT RPG'sI’m a narrativist, OP.
My most recently made character for a D&D was a lawful good paladin who followed the cause of “our war is good”, basically. He believes that his country is the best in the world, and that other countries should aspire to be like his, that war is, in itself, an inherently good thing because it teaches duty and honour and advances the fields of magic. And blah, blah, blah. And yet, because he is following a lawful cause, and because he believes it to be good, (It does teach ‘good’ lessons, good as defined in D&D), voila, a lawful good paladin who kills people in cold blood and has actually incited rebellion and civil war in countries other than his own in order for those countries to become a monarchy.
(Most recently made character for an RPG: A re-instated french sgreat times sylph ‘movie-star’ for Eclipse Phase. Maxed out moxie and fame rep, 40 savvy, (awesome attribute trait), maxed training in drama, performance, and speech, and aI bought a fleet of UFO cameras to hover around him at all times. Haven’t got a chance to play him yet. Second most recent: a Quarren terrorist in Star Wars saga. He’s a master slicer, and good with mechanics and bombs. Last game, I hacked into a security terminal, in one turn, deleted incriminating records, turned off the security droids, sent off the police, and reprogrammed the spider artillery droid to hunt down the gallery owner and kill him. This was necessary because I had bombed my way into an art gallery in order to steal a artifact from an ancient alien race. (In star wars saga, there is a slicer option that allows you to use 1 swift action to perform three terminal actions instead of 1. You can turn a standard action into a move action, and a move action into a swift action. You get one standard + one move + one swift action each turn = 3 swift actions = 9 terminal actions.) (view post) |
12/14/2009 |
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proofWiles was older than 40 when he corrected the proof, and thus not eligible for the fields medal, but he did receive a silver IMU for his achievement.
Fermat’s last theorem isn’t important to many people, it’s more like he was a bit if a celebrity in the math world for his mathematical ability and playfulness.
Penicillin? No one remembers those guys except doctors. Fermat? Most mathematicians can recount countless tales of his life, and he is well known even amoung the arts side of academia.
And yet, penicillin had a much larger effect on the world. (view post) |
12/05/2009 |
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What in the name of Adam West is this.?Ricket Posted: |
10/31/2009 |
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What in the name of Adam West is this.?Mine makes me look like a mac-fabulous person, god.
I’ll have you know I use a superior open-source OS, free of corporate meddling! (view post) |
10/31/2009 |
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Halloween Pumpkin Carving ContestOdalisque Posted:
Doesn’t matter, people hated the idea. -11 when I logged off last night. :/
My pumpkins are…rotten on the inside. Eww. I’m tossing these bastards and digging out my receipt. (view post) |
10/28/2009 |
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Halloween Pumpkin Carving ContestOdalisque Posted: |
10/27/2009 |
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