Celebrate

[Bryn Mawr]

In order to celebrate finally getting Flash videos to work on this machine I offer you this - one of my all time favourite tracks :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81DTIWSEHVw

[Bryn Mawr]

Another favourite - fun this :-

[spot]

Here you go then - you have a spare few minutes to be astounded?

stephen wolfram on rule 30, rule 110 and how the universe is constructed: the computational equivalence lecture.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...97335427959751

I was cheering him on at one point and punching the air. The 21st century's Einstein has landed.

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by spot

Here you go then - you have a spare few minutes to be astounded?

stephen wolfram on rule 30, rule 110 and how the universe is constructed: the computational equivalence lecture.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...97335427959751

I was cheering him on at one point and punching the air.

I think my computer just blew up

[spot]

When did I ever tell you wrong.

I have another - and, indeed, a third if I get asked nicely. I have no idea whether this might be useful for anyone but I got a lot out of it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...31505846055184

It's mentioned on Randy Pausch's homepage at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by spot

Here you go then - you have a spare few minutes to be astounded?

stephen wolfram on rule 30, rule 110 and how the universe is constructed: the computational equivalence lecture.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...97335427959751

I was cheering him on at one point and punching the air. The 21st century's Einstein has landed.

OK - enough for tonight. At the half way point I'd agree that it's well worth following - he's a lot of interesting ideas and the results he's produced are fascinating. I've just hit space as a tri-valent network and realised that I'm too tired to take it in at the speed he's moving.

One trivial comment I'd make on his lead in is that, although he credits Alan Turing he completely glosses over the work of John Conway which is far more closely a pre-cursor to the ideas he's presenting.

Tomorrow Sir - tonight is a while too late and a pint too far.

[spot]

One of the three videos - I can't recall which but I think it's the one I haven't mentioned yet on Time Management - mentions the "Original Bboard Thread in which :-) was proposed" as a smiley by Scott Fahlman on 19 September, 1982. Here's the URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm - I enjoyed reading it.

Right at the end are some additional smileys and I particularly like one which disappeared without trace...

@= for messages dealing with nuclear war

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My goodness, Stephen Wolfram has produced a product[1]. He says it might become the first killer application of his techniques in A New Kind Of Science.

And I've been trying it and wow I like it already.

New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google-UNPAN - United Nations Public Administration Network



[1] Not his first, mind you. He wrote Mathematica.

[fuzzywuzzy]

That's nothing since having youtube and subcribing to the medical and bbc medical channel ..............I think I become qualified as a doctor next week



No really! I think I could perform a C section, deliver a baby in a car and perform heart surgery ..................I love those animated instructional videos.

[Snowfire]

Its a Vincent Black Lightening