/////////////////////////PREHISTORIC HYENODON VS BEARODON
///////////AVG MAMMAL SPECIES SURVIVE 5 MN YRS
/////////////WIKI=Hyaenodon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hyaenodon
Fossil range: Late Eocene–Early Miocene
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Skull of Hyaenodon cayluxi, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Creodonta
Family: Hyaenodontidae
Genus: Hyaenodon
Leidy, 1869
Species [1]
H. bavaricus
H. brevirostris
H. chunkhtensis
H. crucians
H. eminus
H. exicuus
H. gigas
H. horridus
H. incertus
H. leptorhynchus
H. megaloides
H. microdon
H. milloquensis
H. mongoliensis
H. montanus
H. mustelinus
H. pervagus
H. raineyi
H. venturae
H. vetus
H. weilini
H. yuanchensis
Paleontology portal
Hyaenodon ("hyaena-toothed") is an extinct genus of Hyaenodonts, a group of carnivorous Creodonts of the family Hyaenodontidae endemic to all continents except South America and Australia, living from 42—15.9 mya, existing for approximately 26.1 million years.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Morphology
2 Range and species
3 Popular Culture
4 References
5 See also
[edit]Morphology
Some species of this genus were amongst the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals of their time, others were only of the size of a marten. Hyaenodon was one of the latest genera of the Hyaenodonts and is known from the Late Eocene to Early Miocene. Remains of many species are known from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa (In 1993 42 species were distinguished)[3].
Typical of early carnivorous mammals, they had very massive skulls but only small brains. It had a long skull with a narrow snout - much larger in relation to the length of the skull than in canine carnivores, for instance. Its neck was shorter than its skull, while its body was long and robust and terminated in a long tail.
The average weight of adult or subadult H. horridus, the largest North American species, is estimated to about 40 kilograms (88 lb) and may not have exceeded 60 kilograms (130 lb). H. gigas, the largest Hyaenodon species was much larger. H. crucians from the early Oligocene of North America is estimated to only 10 to 25 kilograms (22 to 55 lb). H. microdon and H. mustelinus from the late Eocene of North America were even smaller and weighed probably about 5 kilograms (11 lb)[4].
Reconstruction by Heinrich Harder, c.1920
[edit]Range and species
In North America the last Hyaenodon disappeared along with species like H. brevirostris in the late Oligocene. In Europe they had already vanished earlier in the Oligocene. From the Miocene in Africa there are three species (H. andrewsi, H. matthewi and H. pilgrimi) known, but none of these reached the dimensions of Asian species like H. gigas and H. weilini[3]
Hyaenodon horridus skeleton.
[edit]Popular Culture
It appeared in Walking with Beasts attacking a Indricotherium's calf. It is then shown killing a Chalicotherium but the kill is stolen by a trio of Entelodons.
/////////////////MESOHIPPUS
////////////OREODONT=ANCESTOR SHEEP
////////////////DINICTUS-SABRE TOOTHED CAT
//////////////ENTEBADONT MEGABEAST
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"Live your life as an Exclamation, not an Explanation."
-- Source unknown
////////////////GUBLOC-70+
////////////////////SSN DN CNSPRACY?
/////////////
From Chapter II: Sankhya Yoga
(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
II.48. Perform action, O Dhananjaya(Conqueror of wealth, Arjuna),
being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in
success and failure. Eveness of mind is called Yoga.
COMMENTARY: Dwelling in union with the Divine perform actions
merely for God's sake with a balanced mind in success and failure.
Equilibrium is Yoga. The attainment of the knowledge of the Self
through purity of heart obtained by doing actins without
expectations of fruits is success (Siddhi). Failure is the non-
attachement of knowledge by doing actions with expectation of fruit.
///////////////////The Day the Moon Was Gone
Without the moon, Earth would be a very different and desolate place today--four hours of sunlight with pitch-black nights, steady 100-mph winds spawning giant hurricanes that last for months, and virtually no complex life forms, much less humans. Safe to say, we probably owe our very existence to the moon. But what if it suddenly disappeared? Solar gravity redirects ocean water that floods coastal spots around the globe. Sea currents shift, resulting in freakish weather patterns. Eventually, earth's axis begins fluctuating wildly and climate change grows more extreme. The poles are tropical jungles and parts of the equator become frigid wastelands. Human evolution starts churning in unpredictable ways or ends completely. Without the moon, the Earth is a very different place.
/////////////////////LQT S= To date, 12 different genes have been implicated, and current genetic testing methods can provide a specific diagnosis in approximately 70% of patients. Clinical indicators, including age, sex, corrected QT duration, and prior syncope are the most powerful predictors of future life-threatening cardiac events. However, diagnosis, risk assessment, and therapeutic strategies are being guided by genetic analysis to an increasing degree
//////////////RHYMING SLOGANS SELL
EG LIFE IS STRIFE
//////////////
Sunday, 6 September 2009
NET LINGO
Long time no see”(LTNS)
A&rHZ jv: “Glad to see you (GTSY) mate” (M8)
///////////////////BRB,BTW,LOL,
//////////////MORITE CHAHI NA AMI SUNDAR BHUVANE-MCNASB
A&rHZ jv: “Glad to see you (GTSY) mate” (M8)
///////////////////BRB,BTW,LOL,
//////////////MORITE CHAHI NA AMI SUNDAR BHUVANE-MCNASB
KOL HOL AUG 08
//////INDE-13 RTA DTHS/HR
//////GRATITUDE ATTITUDE
////////FTHR NABADWIP STORY
//////////////RETAIL RX -NO,CHARITY RX -YES
////////////////LOW SELF ESTEEM>>>>>MATERIALISM
/////////////
"As you breathe out slowly, breathe out with the great sound of letting go, Ahhh…"
///////////////buy experience-eg books,not goods
////////////RD BK-59 SECS,R WILSON
///////////////////COMEDY WILL MK HAPPY
////////////////INTENTIONAL CHANGE VS CIRCUMSTANTIAL CHANGE
////////////////HEDONISTIC HABITUATION
//////////////PATCHWORK MIND=Through the study of imprinted genes, researchers are also uncovering clues about how our parents’ genes influence our brain—it seems that maternal genes play a more important role in the formation of some brain areas, such as those for language and complex thought, and paternal genes have more influence in regions involved in growing, eating and mating. “You need both Mom and Dad in order to get a normal brain,” says Janine LaSalle, a medical microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, whose lab focuses on imprinting. “We’re really at the beginning of understanding what that means.”
To understand the implications of imprinting, it helps to know a few basics. Imprinting is an epigenetic (meaning “beyond genetic”) mechanism, a molecular change that can happen within a cell that affects the degree to which genes are activated, without changing the underlying genetic code. The type of imprinting that happens in egg and sperm cells is known as “genomic imprinting,” a reference to its fundamental heritable nature. Other types of imprinting can happen as a result of environmental influences, such as parental nurturing or abuse. [For more on epigenetics, see “The New Genetics of Mental Illness,” by Edmund S. Higgins; Scientific American Mind, June/July 2008.]
//////////////FTHR ABS MTHR,BUT DOES NOT UNDRSTND-NEEDS PSYCHORX BY AD
///////////////CA-RANDY PAUSCH LINE
//////////////PRNTAL DTH-LK TN PAL DTH LINE
//////////////LF IS LOW ENTROPY CONDITION
/////////////
Booting-Up The Universe: Divine Feat or Random Act?
By Johannes Koelman | September 4th 2009 09:37 AM | 1 comment | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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MORE THE HAMMOCK PHYSICIST ARTICLES
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ABOUT JOHANNES KOELMAN
I am a Dutchman, currently living in the US. Following a PhD in theoretical physics (spin-polarized quantum systems*) I entered a Global Fortune 500 company where I am pursuing a career in applied... Full Bio
Johannes
KoelmanWas an almighty God required to boot up the universe, or would a blindfolded monkey have sufficed?
What a silly question. Isn't it obvious that truly divine powers were needed to create our amazing universe capable of evolving systems of supreme complexity called 'life'? Maybe. Maybe not. It all boils down to the question: How special was the big boot, the mother of all boot-ups commonly referred to as the big bang?
Physicists have a well-defined and precise measure that describes how special, or rather how common, the state of a system is. This measure is called entropy. A system with high entropy is ordinary, and a system with low entropy is special. In a recent blog I explained that the entropy of a system is the minimum number of digits required to encode the physical state of the system. It is the number of digits required to single out what is, amongst the many possibilities that could be. If a physical system can be described in relatively few digits, a limited number of alternative states needed to be singled out, and the state of the system can be considered special. If a lot of digits are needed, the state is one out of many, and therefore rather common.
You and I are special. This should not surprise you. All life is special. Living beings are prime examples of systems of low entropy. Unfortunately, the entropy of any isolated system must increase. So the low entropy of living bodies can be maintained only by being in contact with a larger universe that generously accepts all excess entropy. To accommodate this excess entropy the universe itself needs to be in a very low entropy state. A state with hot stars in a cold dark space. Stars that provide low entropy radiation to the planets and their life forms, with the planets sending high entropy thermal radiation back into the cold universe. Low entropy in, high entropy out. The cycle that keeps you and me, and all life in the universe going.
With a universe that - after more than 13 billion years - is still in a state with low enough entropy to support life, the entropy at earlier times must have been even lower. In fact, it must have been incredibly low.
Penrose's Needle in a Haystack
In his thought provoking book The Emperor's New Mind, and more recently also in his magnum opus The Road to Reality, Wolf Prize winner Sir Roger Penrose follows these lines of reasoning, and argues that the big boot represents a truly spectacular feat. To start a low entropy universe in which life can be sustained, the operator of the universe had to select one of the relatively few acceptable boot sequences out of the virtually infinitely many sequences that can be formed using a total of 10122 digits.
You read that well, Penrose is not referring to the 10122 possible sequences consisting of 122 digits, but to the truly insane number of possible sequences consisting of 10122 digits. Although Penrose refrains from drawing the conclusion that an operator with divine powers must have controlled the big boot, this conclusion seems almost inevitable.
Or is it?
Let me try to convince you that the opposing hypothesis is not as far-fetched as it seems: the big boot could very well have been a random act.
Ball-'n-Boxes
Consider a ball-'n-boxes toy model. Say we have a ball that can be in one of ten boxes. Obviously, a single digit is required to describe the state of this system. The system has an entropy of one digit. Similarly, with 100 boxes being available to the ball, the entropy would be 2 digits.
In ball-'n-boxes systems a low entropy manifests itself via an encoding that requires fewer digits than expected based on the number of boxes. If 100 boxes are present, but the laws that govern the dynamics of the ball are such that for some time it is restricted to ten specific boxes, the entropy is (at least for a while) lower than two digits. With a suitable numbering of the boxes (i.e. by numbering the ten special boxes '0' - '9'), one digit would suffice to describe the state of the system. Hence, the entropy of this special ball-'n-boxes system is no more than one digit.
Penrose views the universe as a ball-'n-1010^122-boxes system. Unless this system is in special state, 10122 digits are needed to describe it.* However, our universe is special in the sense that whilst 1010^122 boxes are available, the vast majority of these boxes can be ruled out as having been inaccessible since the big boot. This translates into a much reduced entropy. In fact, Penrose estimates that spectacularly few digits are needed to describe our current universe. Out of the total number of 10122 digits at most one in every 1021 digits are required to describe the current universe. And to describe the earlier universe vastly fewer numbers of digits are needed.
A total number of states of 1010^122 is huge but finite. This means that Penrose's arguments are applicable only to bounded (closed) universes characterized by an upper limit on the allowed entropy Whether our universe is bounded or unbounded is an open problem related to the ultimate fate of the universe. However, the observed acceleration of the expansion of the observable universe strongly suggests that our universe might indeed be unbounded. Can we define a simple ball-'n-boxes model that describes an open universe in which the entropies can grow without bound?
Fibonacci universe
The answer is that this is surprisingly simple, provided we explicitly include in the model the dynamics of the ball. Those who have followed my recent blogs will not be surprised to see the reversible Fibonacci dynamics entering the spotlight again. We have already seen that the simple Fibonacci recipe (start from two initial numbers and repetitively add the last two numbers to create the next) creates surprising chaotic behaviors. Also, using Fibonacci's dynamics the arrow of time can be understood based on the low entropy start of the universe. Here, using Fibonacci's dynamics, we delve one level deeper and try to understand why the universe started in an extremely low entropy state. In the Fibonacci model we still have one ball, but an infinite number of boxes with each box uniquely labeled with an integer. The evolution of the Fibonacci universe is described by a sequence of numbers corresponding to the integer labels of the boxes subsequently visited by the ball. If at time t-1 the ball is in the box labeled Lt-1, and at time t it is in box Lt, then at time t+1 the ball will be in box Lt+1 = Lt + Lt-1.
Suppose after 20 time steps you observe the ball to be in the box labeled 459732, and after 21 time steps in box 743862.
Is this remarkable?
Sure it is! There is no reason to expect numbers of only a few digits. Infinitely more numbers with many more digits are available. Yet you observe box labels of only six digits. Evidently, your Fibonacci toy universe can be described in surprisingly few digits, and you conclude it is in a state of very, very low entropy.
Moreover, the number of digits must have increased at every time step** so at start of the universe, the entropy must have been even lower. How much lower is not relevant for the present discussion. The important point to note is that starting from the initial pair of boxes (the boxes visited by the ball in step zero and step one) up till the boxes visited at steps 20 and 21, just six digits per time step sufficed to describe the whole dynamics. We conclude that the first 20 time steps are described by a remarkably low entropy. But this holds for any starting pair of boxes. If we start at time t = 0 and t = 1 with the ball in boxes labeled with 100-digit integers, the same entropy increasing behavior is observed. Digits get added with time no matter what starting conditions are selected, and independent of the starting conditions the history of the universe appears to be characterized by a remarkably low entropy. It is practically impossible to avoid starting entropies low compared to later entropies.
With this behavior resulting from a simple Fibonacci's dynamics, surely it will result also from more complicated reversible dynamics laws. In fact, any unbounded reversible dynamics that is mildly chaotic can be expected to result in a universe that starts with a low entropy big bang. The starting condition simply doesn't matter.
Heck, do we even need a blindfolded monkey?
Notes
* More precisely, in 90% of the cases exactly 10122 digits are needed, in 9% of the cases 10122 - 1 digits are needed, in 0.9% of the cases 10122 - 2 digits are needed, etc. Now, for all practical purposes, 10122 - 10100, 10122 - 1030, and 10122 - 1 are all indistinguishable from 10122. Therefore, with a very high degree of accuracy, the entropy of this ball-'n-10122-boxes system is 10122 digits.
** The Fibonacci dynamics yields box labels that tend to increase each timestep by a factor equal to the golden ratio . It follows that on average every 1/10log() = 4.785 time steps a digit gets added.
///////////////KALER(GXE) NIYOMEI CA HOY-TOLB THEN PALLT
//////////////AFTER 70 BODY BCOMES A LOAD
//////////////usain BOLT 9.58 SEC FOR 100 M=ABT 10M/SEC
CHEETAH 33M/SEC
///////////////TECH- IT -EASY=CONTENT IS KING
////////BEFIKAAR,BINDASS,BARELY THERE CHOLI
/////////////NAMANUSH,ELOMELO
////////////////NOT ATANKA BUT SATARKA
/////////////////////COFFEED PPL SWAY IN FAVOUR
///////////////////
//////GRATITUDE ATTITUDE
////////FTHR NABADWIP STORY
//////////////RETAIL RX -NO,CHARITY RX -YES
////////////////LOW SELF ESTEEM>>>>>MATERIALISM
/////////////
"As you breathe out slowly, breathe out with the great sound of letting go, Ahhh…"
///////////////buy experience-eg books,not goods
////////////RD BK-59 SECS,R WILSON
///////////////////COMEDY WILL MK HAPPY
////////////////INTENTIONAL CHANGE VS CIRCUMSTANTIAL CHANGE
////////////////HEDONISTIC HABITUATION
//////////////PATCHWORK MIND=Through the study of imprinted genes, researchers are also uncovering clues about how our parents’ genes influence our brain—it seems that maternal genes play a more important role in the formation of some brain areas, such as those for language and complex thought, and paternal genes have more influence in regions involved in growing, eating and mating. “You need both Mom and Dad in order to get a normal brain,” says Janine LaSalle, a medical microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, whose lab focuses on imprinting. “We’re really at the beginning of understanding what that means.”
To understand the implications of imprinting, it helps to know a few basics. Imprinting is an epigenetic (meaning “beyond genetic”) mechanism, a molecular change that can happen within a cell that affects the degree to which genes are activated, without changing the underlying genetic code. The type of imprinting that happens in egg and sperm cells is known as “genomic imprinting,” a reference to its fundamental heritable nature. Other types of imprinting can happen as a result of environmental influences, such as parental nurturing or abuse. [For more on epigenetics, see “The New Genetics of Mental Illness,” by Edmund S. Higgins; Scientific American Mind, June/July 2008.]
//////////////FTHR ABS MTHR,BUT DOES NOT UNDRSTND-NEEDS PSYCHORX BY AD
///////////////CA-RANDY PAUSCH LINE
//////////////PRNTAL DTH-LK TN PAL DTH LINE
//////////////LF IS LOW ENTROPY CONDITION
/////////////
Booting-Up The Universe: Divine Feat or Random Act?
By Johannes Koelman | September 4th 2009 09:37 AM | 1 comment | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
.
MORE THE HAMMOCK PHYSICIST ARTICLES
Booting-Up The Universe: Divine Feat or Random Act?
What's Wrong With E=MC^2?
The Principle of Maximal Aging
All
ABOUT JOHANNES KOELMAN
I am a Dutchman, currently living in the US. Following a PhD in theoretical physics (spin-polarized quantum systems*) I entered a Global Fortune 500 company where I am pursuing a career in applied... Full Bio
Johannes
KoelmanWas an almighty God required to boot up the universe, or would a blindfolded monkey have sufficed?
What a silly question. Isn't it obvious that truly divine powers were needed to create our amazing universe capable of evolving systems of supreme complexity called 'life'? Maybe. Maybe not. It all boils down to the question: How special was the big boot, the mother of all boot-ups commonly referred to as the big bang?
Physicists have a well-defined and precise measure that describes how special, or rather how common, the state of a system is. This measure is called entropy. A system with high entropy is ordinary, and a system with low entropy is special. In a recent blog I explained that the entropy of a system is the minimum number of digits required to encode the physical state of the system. It is the number of digits required to single out what is, amongst the many possibilities that could be. If a physical system can be described in relatively few digits, a limited number of alternative states needed to be singled out, and the state of the system can be considered special. If a lot of digits are needed, the state is one out of many, and therefore rather common.
You and I are special. This should not surprise you. All life is special. Living beings are prime examples of systems of low entropy. Unfortunately, the entropy of any isolated system must increase. So the low entropy of living bodies can be maintained only by being in contact with a larger universe that generously accepts all excess entropy. To accommodate this excess entropy the universe itself needs to be in a very low entropy state. A state with hot stars in a cold dark space. Stars that provide low entropy radiation to the planets and their life forms, with the planets sending high entropy thermal radiation back into the cold universe. Low entropy in, high entropy out. The cycle that keeps you and me, and all life in the universe going.
With a universe that - after more than 13 billion years - is still in a state with low enough entropy to support life, the entropy at earlier times must have been even lower. In fact, it must have been incredibly low.
Penrose's Needle in a Haystack
In his thought provoking book The Emperor's New Mind, and more recently also in his magnum opus The Road to Reality, Wolf Prize winner Sir Roger Penrose follows these lines of reasoning, and argues that the big boot represents a truly spectacular feat. To start a low entropy universe in which life can be sustained, the operator of the universe had to select one of the relatively few acceptable boot sequences out of the virtually infinitely many sequences that can be formed using a total of 10122 digits.
You read that well, Penrose is not referring to the 10122 possible sequences consisting of 122 digits, but to the truly insane number of possible sequences consisting of 10122 digits. Although Penrose refrains from drawing the conclusion that an operator with divine powers must have controlled the big boot, this conclusion seems almost inevitable.
Or is it?
Let me try to convince you that the opposing hypothesis is not as far-fetched as it seems: the big boot could very well have been a random act.
Ball-'n-Boxes
Consider a ball-'n-boxes toy model. Say we have a ball that can be in one of ten boxes. Obviously, a single digit is required to describe the state of this system. The system has an entropy of one digit. Similarly, with 100 boxes being available to the ball, the entropy would be 2 digits.
In ball-'n-boxes systems a low entropy manifests itself via an encoding that requires fewer digits than expected based on the number of boxes. If 100 boxes are present, but the laws that govern the dynamics of the ball are such that for some time it is restricted to ten specific boxes, the entropy is (at least for a while) lower than two digits. With a suitable numbering of the boxes (i.e. by numbering the ten special boxes '0' - '9'), one digit would suffice to describe the state of the system. Hence, the entropy of this special ball-'n-boxes system is no more than one digit.
Penrose views the universe as a ball-'n-1010^122-boxes system. Unless this system is in special state, 10122 digits are needed to describe it.* However, our universe is special in the sense that whilst 1010^122 boxes are available, the vast majority of these boxes can be ruled out as having been inaccessible since the big boot. This translates into a much reduced entropy. In fact, Penrose estimates that spectacularly few digits are needed to describe our current universe. Out of the total number of 10122 digits at most one in every 1021 digits are required to describe the current universe. And to describe the earlier universe vastly fewer numbers of digits are needed.
A total number of states of 1010^122 is huge but finite. This means that Penrose's arguments are applicable only to bounded (closed) universes characterized by an upper limit on the allowed entropy Whether our universe is bounded or unbounded is an open problem related to the ultimate fate of the universe. However, the observed acceleration of the expansion of the observable universe strongly suggests that our universe might indeed be unbounded. Can we define a simple ball-'n-boxes model that describes an open universe in which the entropies can grow without bound?
Fibonacci universe
The answer is that this is surprisingly simple, provided we explicitly include in the model the dynamics of the ball. Those who have followed my recent blogs will not be surprised to see the reversible Fibonacci dynamics entering the spotlight again. We have already seen that the simple Fibonacci recipe (start from two initial numbers and repetitively add the last two numbers to create the next) creates surprising chaotic behaviors. Also, using Fibonacci's dynamics the arrow of time can be understood based on the low entropy start of the universe. Here, using Fibonacci's dynamics, we delve one level deeper and try to understand why the universe started in an extremely low entropy state. In the Fibonacci model we still have one ball, but an infinite number of boxes with each box uniquely labeled with an integer. The evolution of the Fibonacci universe is described by a sequence of numbers corresponding to the integer labels of the boxes subsequently visited by the ball. If at time t-1 the ball is in the box labeled Lt-1, and at time t it is in box Lt, then at time t+1 the ball will be in box Lt+1 = Lt + Lt-1.
Suppose after 20 time steps you observe the ball to be in the box labeled 459732, and after 21 time steps in box 743862.
Is this remarkable?
Sure it is! There is no reason to expect numbers of only a few digits. Infinitely more numbers with many more digits are available. Yet you observe box labels of only six digits. Evidently, your Fibonacci toy universe can be described in surprisingly few digits, and you conclude it is in a state of very, very low entropy.
Moreover, the number of digits must have increased at every time step** so at start of the universe, the entropy must have been even lower. How much lower is not relevant for the present discussion. The important point to note is that starting from the initial pair of boxes (the boxes visited by the ball in step zero and step one) up till the boxes visited at steps 20 and 21, just six digits per time step sufficed to describe the whole dynamics. We conclude that the first 20 time steps are described by a remarkably low entropy. But this holds for any starting pair of boxes. If we start at time t = 0 and t = 1 with the ball in boxes labeled with 100-digit integers, the same entropy increasing behavior is observed. Digits get added with time no matter what starting conditions are selected, and independent of the starting conditions the history of the universe appears to be characterized by a remarkably low entropy. It is practically impossible to avoid starting entropies low compared to later entropies.
With this behavior resulting from a simple Fibonacci's dynamics, surely it will result also from more complicated reversible dynamics laws. In fact, any unbounded reversible dynamics that is mildly chaotic can be expected to result in a universe that starts with a low entropy big bang. The starting condition simply doesn't matter.
Heck, do we even need a blindfolded monkey?
Notes
* More precisely, in 90% of the cases exactly 10122 digits are needed, in 9% of the cases 10122 - 1 digits are needed, in 0.9% of the cases 10122 - 2 digits are needed, etc. Now, for all practical purposes, 10122 - 10100, 10122 - 1030, and 10122 - 1 are all indistinguishable from 10122. Therefore, with a very high degree of accuracy, the entropy of this ball-'n-10122-boxes system is 10122 digits.
** The Fibonacci dynamics yields box labels that tend to increase each timestep by a factor equal to the golden ratio . It follows that on average every 1/10log() = 4.785 time steps a digit gets added.
///////////////KALER(GXE) NIYOMEI CA HOY-TOLB THEN PALLT
//////////////AFTER 70 BODY BCOMES A LOAD
//////////////usain BOLT 9.58 SEC FOR 100 M=ABT 10M/SEC
CHEETAH 33M/SEC
///////////////TECH- IT -EASY=CONTENT IS KING
////////BEFIKAAR,BINDASS,BARELY THERE CHOLI
/////////////NAMANUSH,ELOMELO
////////////////NOT ATANKA BUT SATARKA
/////////////////////COFFEED PPL SWAY IN FAVOUR
///////////////////
Friday, 4 September 2009
CDS 050909-INTUBATED 30 WKR
///////////////NO MORE INTUBN JNX
//////////////DIFFY INTUBN-FROTHY SECRN,BENT NECK,BUT DID IT
////////////////GOD ON THE BRAIN-BPM-HORIZON
/////////////TOUCHED BY GOD
/////////////FAITH IN MIND
/////////////////TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY
///////////////////RELIGIOUS HALLUCINATION
/////////////////////BHOR HOWA=TLE
///////////////////////WHERE DOES RELIGS BLF COME FROM?
/////////////////////////DIVINE REVELATION-VISIONS
////////////////////////TOMAR BRAINER PROBLEM-AMADER SOBAR PICHHON MARCHHO?
////////////////////////7TH DAY ADVNTIST LEADER-HD INJURY
///////////////////////////ST PAUL,MOSES,INDIAN MYSTICS-TLE ENRICHED THEIR MENTAL LIFE
//////////////////////////////TLE PTS-GALVANIC SWEAT STIMULUS-GOD WORD INCR,SEX WORDS REDUCED STIMULUS
////////////////////////////MORE PRONE TO RELIGS BLF-IN TLE PTS
////////////////////////////////NEUROTHEOLOGY
///////////////////////////////DR NEUBERG
////////////////////////////////SENSE PRESENCE-RT TEMP LOBE ACTY
/////////////////////////////////DR PERSINGER
//////////////////////////////////LESS CA,HEART DIS-COULD BE SURVIVAL VALUE OF RLIGS BELIEF BRAINS
///////////////////////////////////////OR IS IT GODS ANTENNA IN SOME PERSONS BRAINS
/////////////////////////////////////////BRAIN STR OR SOCIAL CONDITIONING
///////////////////////////////SO RELIGN HAS SUCH TENACITY
//////////////DIFFY INTUBN-FROTHY SECRN,BENT NECK,BUT DID IT
////////////////GOD ON THE BRAIN-BPM-HORIZON
/////////////TOUCHED BY GOD
/////////////FAITH IN MIND
/////////////////TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY
///////////////////RELIGIOUS HALLUCINATION
/////////////////////BHOR HOWA=TLE
///////////////////////WHERE DOES RELIGS BLF COME FROM?
/////////////////////////DIVINE REVELATION-VISIONS
////////////////////////TOMAR BRAINER PROBLEM-AMADER SOBAR PICHHON MARCHHO?
////////////////////////7TH DAY ADVNTIST LEADER-HD INJURY
///////////////////////////ST PAUL,MOSES,INDIAN MYSTICS-TLE ENRICHED THEIR MENTAL LIFE
//////////////////////////////TLE PTS-GALVANIC SWEAT STIMULUS-GOD WORD INCR,SEX WORDS REDUCED STIMULUS
////////////////////////////MORE PRONE TO RELIGS BLF-IN TLE PTS
////////////////////////////////NEUROTHEOLOGY
///////////////////////////////DR NEUBERG
////////////////////////////////SENSE PRESENCE-RT TEMP LOBE ACTY
/////////////////////////////////DR PERSINGER
//////////////////////////////////LESS CA,HEART DIS-COULD BE SURVIVAL VALUE OF RLIGS BELIEF BRAINS
///////////////////////////////////////OR IS IT GODS ANTENNA IN SOME PERSONS BRAINS
/////////////////////////////////////////BRAIN STR OR SOCIAL CONDITIONING
///////////////////////////////SO RELIGN HAS SUCH TENACITY
Thursday, 3 September 2009
CDS 030909-BDAY 45-UAC/UVC YDAY-ABKJK
Then You Are Them
Fredric Jameson: Margaret Atwood’s Dystopia
Margaret Atwood’s new novel, The Year of the Flood, is set in the same dystopian future as her earlier book Oryx and Crake, a future in which, in Fredric Jameson’s words, capitalist society has broken down ‘into the various private contractors to whom social needs are outsourced’. Atwood’s dystopia isn’t like Orwell’s in 1984: its colours ‘have a loathsome pastel quality, like drugstores; its bunny suits and fluffy fabrics reflect the bad taste of infantile mass production; the bloody physical violence is that of cartoons rather than Hitler.’ It is, in other words, American. The Year of the Flood, Jameson argues, can be read as ‘the expression of an ideological doctrine’: it’s important to remember that Atwood is Canadian, and ‘no little of her imaginative power comes from her privileged position above the border of the lower 48.’
/////////////////INHERENT VICE
//////////////////LOWER UPPER CLASS
/////////////////ANOTHER SELF
////////////////////For all the self-deprecation there was scant self-pity. As time and illness overtook him and many of his friends he was impatient with those who fussed over the inevitable. ‘It’s just death let’s face it.’ In 1994 death came for Alvilde, to whom, in their last years, he had grown close once more. His grief was recorded like everything else and with painful economy: ‘The evenings alone are agony, and the nights frightening.’ He survived his wife by four years and outlived his diary by less than two months, the last entry, written in hospital, a final comment on his own inadequacy: ‘My handwriting is very shaky. Damn it.’
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect,
////////////////Modern celebrities are often in the habit of making their staff sign confidentiality agreements.
////////////////Inside the Barrel
Brent Hayes Edwards
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade by Christopher Miller Buy this book
In May 2001, the French National Assembly passed a law, the Loi Taubira (named after Christiane Taubira, the Socialist deputy who sponsored the bill), recognising the Atlantic slave trade as a ‘crime against humanity’. France is, as a result, the only country in the world that has condemned slavery in the name of human rights. The law was controversial not only for its seeming admission of national ‘guilt’, as some critics put it, but also because it appeared to prescribe a state policy on the presentation of the past: Article Two required that the slave trade and slavery be taken into account in education policy and research funding. The law was vague as to what exactly would be required, but in 2004 the government formed a Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage to devise a programme for use in schools. At the same time, planning began for a Centre national pour la mémoire des esclavages et de leurs abolitions, conceived as a research centre, an archive and a memorial.
=LRB
/////////////////////GLOOMY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS
//////////////////SUCCESS AND EXCESS
//////////////YSR 1949-2009-RIP
////////////////////
Fredric Jameson: Margaret Atwood’s Dystopia
Margaret Atwood’s new novel, The Year of the Flood, is set in the same dystopian future as her earlier book Oryx and Crake, a future in which, in Fredric Jameson’s words, capitalist society has broken down ‘into the various private contractors to whom social needs are outsourced’. Atwood’s dystopia isn’t like Orwell’s in 1984: its colours ‘have a loathsome pastel quality, like drugstores; its bunny suits and fluffy fabrics reflect the bad taste of infantile mass production; the bloody physical violence is that of cartoons rather than Hitler.’ It is, in other words, American. The Year of the Flood, Jameson argues, can be read as ‘the expression of an ideological doctrine’: it’s important to remember that Atwood is Canadian, and ‘no little of her imaginative power comes from her privileged position above the border of the lower 48.’
/////////////////INHERENT VICE
//////////////////LOWER UPPER CLASS
/////////////////ANOTHER SELF
////////////////////For all the self-deprecation there was scant self-pity. As time and illness overtook him and many of his friends he was impatient with those who fussed over the inevitable. ‘It’s just death let’s face it.’ In 1994 death came for Alvilde, to whom, in their last years, he had grown close once more. His grief was recorded like everything else and with painful economy: ‘The evenings alone are agony, and the nights frightening.’ He survived his wife by four years and outlived his diary by less than two months, the last entry, written in hospital, a final comment on his own inadequacy: ‘My handwriting is very shaky. Damn it.’
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect,
////////////////Modern celebrities are often in the habit of making their staff sign confidentiality agreements.
////////////////Inside the Barrel
Brent Hayes Edwards
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade by Christopher Miller Buy this book
In May 2001, the French National Assembly passed a law, the Loi Taubira (named after Christiane Taubira, the Socialist deputy who sponsored the bill), recognising the Atlantic slave trade as a ‘crime against humanity’. France is, as a result, the only country in the world that has condemned slavery in the name of human rights. The law was controversial not only for its seeming admission of national ‘guilt’, as some critics put it, but also because it appeared to prescribe a state policy on the presentation of the past: Article Two required that the slave trade and slavery be taken into account in education policy and research funding. The law was vague as to what exactly would be required, but in 2004 the government formed a Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage to devise a programme for use in schools. At the same time, planning began for a Centre national pour la mémoire des esclavages et de leurs abolitions, conceived as a research centre, an archive and a memorial.
=LRB
/////////////////////GLOOMY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS
//////////////////SUCCESS AND EXCESS
//////////////YSR 1949-2009-RIP
////////////////////
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009
EK ADAR BYAPARIR JAHAJ DIARY
///////////////////"Entering into the pain ends suffering. I meet resistance with non-resistance."
///////////////WKR SCTN WAD NEED TO BE BC MR THN SLF
///////////////FTHR SKN CA CRSS
How to Check Yourself Out for Signs of Skin Cancer
Sure, you know that you should check your body for moles and other signs of skin cancer. But what exactly are you supposed to look for and how?
By Diana Rodriguez
Medically reviewed by Niya Jones, MD, MPH
Print Email
You see your skin every day, but how closely do you really look at it? Do you examine it regularly for suspicious-looking body moles or facial moles, or for any unusual or changing patches of skin? If you don't already check your skin for changes, the considered advice of skin cancer experts is start today.
Facial Moles and Body Moles: Why a Skin Examination Is Important
Your doctor should check each year to look for any of the warning signs of skin cancer. But part of a healthy skin care regimen should also include a monthly self-examination. A regular and thorough examination can allow you to spot any pre-cancerous or cancerous growths at an early stage. And the sooner you catch skin cancer, the better your odds of treating it successfully.
If you don’t make a habit of checking your skin because you think skin cancer can't happen to you, think again. The most common type of cancer is skin cancer, and the number of people affected rises each year.
How to Check Your Skin for Facial Moles and Body Moles
Once a month, stand in a brightly lit room in front of a full-length mirror and look closely at your skin. (You can also ask your partner to check for facial and body moles with you so that you can scan each other’s bodies.)
Start with the front of your body. Examine your face, ears, neck, and throat.
Inspect your chest (women should lift up their breasts and check the undersides). Look at the armpits, the tops and bottoms of the arms, and the hands and fingers. Don't forget to check fingernails and the skin between your fingers.
Sit on a chair to examine the tops of your thighs, the front of your legs, and your feet. Don't forget the toenails and the skin between your toes.
Using a hand mirror, start at the bottom and check the back of your body. Inspect the soles of your feet, the backs of your legs and thighs, genitals, and buttocks.
Examine your upper and lower back, shoulders, and the back of your neck.
Last, don't forget your hairline and scalp. A hairbrush or hair dryer can help move hair so that you can see every area of your scalp.
Body Moles and Skin Cancer: What to Look For
To spot the warning signs of skin cancer, it's important to be able to tell the difference between a normal, healthy mole and a potentially cancerous facial mole or body mole. You're checking your skin for three main types of skin cancer: basal cell, squamous cell, and melanoma.
Basal cell carcinomas may be flat or slightly raised, have a reddish or pink tint, and often appear shiny. This type of skin cancer is usually found on the face, neck, hands or arms.
Squamous cell carcinomas look like scaly, crusty bumps in the skin. They may also start out as a smooth patch of red skin.
Body moles or facial moles that indicate melanoma may be asymmetrical, have jagged edges, contain several colors, and often tend to be larger than a pencil eraser. You may also notice bleeding after minor irritation of these moles. “A healthy mole is uniform in color and symmetric, while an atypical mole is multi-colored, rapidly growing, and it bleeds,” says Mary C. Martini, MD, director of the Pigmented Lesion and Melanoma Clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
If you notice any changes in your skin or in any body or facial moles, tell your doctor and promptly schedule a skin examination.
Once you've gotten into the habit of checking each month, it will be easy to spot any changes and potential warning signs of skin cancer. Before you know it, you'll be an expert on your skin, and will be able to consult your doctor as soon as you find any suspicious facial moles or body moles.
Last Updated: 12/21/2008
////////////////////Smile, breathe, and go slowly"
Thich Nhat Hanh
/////////////////Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles."
Charlie Chaplin
///////////////////"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
Chinese proverb
////////////////"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."
Lily Tomlin
////////////////There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mahatma Gandhi
///////////////////How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward."
Spanish proverb
///////////////////Bookstores What can I say? I love to read - I read about ten books a month for my own enjoyment and probably five more for The Simple Dollar and other professional purposes. The smell and feel and sight of a new book is like manna to me. I usually resist most of my impulses by arguing to myself that I can get those books at the library or off of PaperBackSwap, but it’s definitely a struggle - one I don’t always win.
////////////////void them entirely. The easiest way not to be tempted is to simply not visit these stores at all. This works to a certain extent. For years, I had a routine of going to a bookstore each Tuesday (to check out the new releases) and each Friday (to “celebrate” the end of a workweek). This routine usually meant that I would wind up buying a book or two at each visit, which could easily add up to $40 a week.
By simply breaking that routine, it was easy to see a tremendous amount of financial benefit - as much as $2,000 per year. While I still do visit bookstores on occasion, they’re no longer part of any sort of routine. This makes the individual visits much more enjoying, since they’re more infrequent and not based on any sort of schedule.
Take notes. If you visit a store, fall in love with lots of items, and are tempted to buy, stop. Pull out a notepad and write down all of the things that are tempting you. List the books, food ideas, clothing, games, or other items that are really intriguing you.
This serves two purposes. First, you can take the list home and do further research on the item(s) and some comparison shopping. Second, it allows you to utilize the “thirty day rule,” where you agree not to buy the item for thirty days and then re-evaluate at the end of the period whether or not you actually want the item.
//////////////////////Use the ten second rule. Sometimes, on an impulsive whim, you’ll pick up an item and make the split-second decision to buy it. As you head to the cashier, stop for ten seconds and ask yourself if you really need this item after all, or if you couldn’t get a better deal on it elsewhere.
For me, this works quite well to at least slow impulse buys. I’ll usually put the item back and add it to my list (see the earlier tip). It doesn’t necessarily mean that I won’t end up with the item in the future, but it will be bought with a rational, not an impulsive, mind.
/////////////////////Shortcut To DEATH
Zebra crossings, medians, guard rails — nothing can prevent Kolkata pedestrians from breaking rules & straying on roads
Jayanta Gupta | TNN
Aformer additional commissioner of Kolkata Police narrates this interesting anecdote whenever he is asked to speak on the city’s traffic situation. “I was taking around a dignitary who was on his first visit to Kolkata. After a while, he said he was amazed to see so many ‘traffic policemen’ on
the streets. I did not understand. He then explained that he was talking about all the people who would simply walk across the street without a care in the world, raising their palms at oncoming vehicles, expecting them to stop.”
Kolkata is a jaywalker’s paradise. At any hour of the day, on any street, through thin or heavy traffic you would see them darting across the road, or simply strolling across. Teenagers are as guilty as grandmas, woman with children in tow and smartly dressed office executives. You would think it was a part of Kolkata’s culture. A dangerous one.
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///////////////WKR SCTN WAD NEED TO BE BC MR THN SLF
///////////////FTHR SKN CA CRSS
How to Check Yourself Out for Signs of Skin Cancer
Sure, you know that you should check your body for moles and other signs of skin cancer. But what exactly are you supposed to look for and how?
By Diana Rodriguez
Medically reviewed by Niya Jones, MD, MPH
Print Email
You see your skin every day, but how closely do you really look at it? Do you examine it regularly for suspicious-looking body moles or facial moles, or for any unusual or changing patches of skin? If you don't already check your skin for changes, the considered advice of skin cancer experts is start today.
Facial Moles and Body Moles: Why a Skin Examination Is Important
Your doctor should check each year to look for any of the warning signs of skin cancer. But part of a healthy skin care regimen should also include a monthly self-examination. A regular and thorough examination can allow you to spot any pre-cancerous or cancerous growths at an early stage. And the sooner you catch skin cancer, the better your odds of treating it successfully.
If you don’t make a habit of checking your skin because you think skin cancer can't happen to you, think again. The most common type of cancer is skin cancer, and the number of people affected rises each year.
How to Check Your Skin for Facial Moles and Body Moles
Once a month, stand in a brightly lit room in front of a full-length mirror and look closely at your skin. (You can also ask your partner to check for facial and body moles with you so that you can scan each other’s bodies.)
Start with the front of your body. Examine your face, ears, neck, and throat.
Inspect your chest (women should lift up their breasts and check the undersides). Look at the armpits, the tops and bottoms of the arms, and the hands and fingers. Don't forget to check fingernails and the skin between your fingers.
Sit on a chair to examine the tops of your thighs, the front of your legs, and your feet. Don't forget the toenails and the skin between your toes.
Using a hand mirror, start at the bottom and check the back of your body. Inspect the soles of your feet, the backs of your legs and thighs, genitals, and buttocks.
Examine your upper and lower back, shoulders, and the back of your neck.
Last, don't forget your hairline and scalp. A hairbrush or hair dryer can help move hair so that you can see every area of your scalp.
Body Moles and Skin Cancer: What to Look For
To spot the warning signs of skin cancer, it's important to be able to tell the difference between a normal, healthy mole and a potentially cancerous facial mole or body mole. You're checking your skin for three main types of skin cancer: basal cell, squamous cell, and melanoma.
Basal cell carcinomas may be flat or slightly raised, have a reddish or pink tint, and often appear shiny. This type of skin cancer is usually found on the face, neck, hands or arms.
Squamous cell carcinomas look like scaly, crusty bumps in the skin. They may also start out as a smooth patch of red skin.
Body moles or facial moles that indicate melanoma may be asymmetrical, have jagged edges, contain several colors, and often tend to be larger than a pencil eraser. You may also notice bleeding after minor irritation of these moles. “A healthy mole is uniform in color and symmetric, while an atypical mole is multi-colored, rapidly growing, and it bleeds,” says Mary C. Martini, MD, director of the Pigmented Lesion and Melanoma Clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
If you notice any changes in your skin or in any body or facial moles, tell your doctor and promptly schedule a skin examination.
Once you've gotten into the habit of checking each month, it will be easy to spot any changes and potential warning signs of skin cancer. Before you know it, you'll be an expert on your skin, and will be able to consult your doctor as soon as you find any suspicious facial moles or body moles.
Last Updated: 12/21/2008
////////////////////Smile, breathe, and go slowly"
Thich Nhat Hanh
/////////////////Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles."
Charlie Chaplin
///////////////////"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
Chinese proverb
////////////////"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."
Lily Tomlin
////////////////There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mahatma Gandhi
///////////////////How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward."
Spanish proverb
///////////////////Bookstores What can I say? I love to read - I read about ten books a month for my own enjoyment and probably five more for The Simple Dollar and other professional purposes. The smell and feel and sight of a new book is like manna to me. I usually resist most of my impulses by arguing to myself that I can get those books at the library or off of PaperBackSwap, but it’s definitely a struggle - one I don’t always win.
////////////////void them entirely. The easiest way not to be tempted is to simply not visit these stores at all. This works to a certain extent. For years, I had a routine of going to a bookstore each Tuesday (to check out the new releases) and each Friday (to “celebrate” the end of a workweek). This routine usually meant that I would wind up buying a book or two at each visit, which could easily add up to $40 a week.
By simply breaking that routine, it was easy to see a tremendous amount of financial benefit - as much as $2,000 per year. While I still do visit bookstores on occasion, they’re no longer part of any sort of routine. This makes the individual visits much more enjoying, since they’re more infrequent and not based on any sort of schedule.
Take notes. If you visit a store, fall in love with lots of items, and are tempted to buy, stop. Pull out a notepad and write down all of the things that are tempting you. List the books, food ideas, clothing, games, or other items that are really intriguing you.
This serves two purposes. First, you can take the list home and do further research on the item(s) and some comparison shopping. Second, it allows you to utilize the “thirty day rule,” where you agree not to buy the item for thirty days and then re-evaluate at the end of the period whether or not you actually want the item.
//////////////////////Use the ten second rule. Sometimes, on an impulsive whim, you’ll pick up an item and make the split-second decision to buy it. As you head to the cashier, stop for ten seconds and ask yourself if you really need this item after all, or if you couldn’t get a better deal on it elsewhere.
For me, this works quite well to at least slow impulse buys. I’ll usually put the item back and add it to my list (see the earlier tip). It doesn’t necessarily mean that I won’t end up with the item in the future, but it will be bought with a rational, not an impulsive, mind.
/////////////////////Shortcut To DEATH
Zebra crossings, medians, guard rails — nothing can prevent Kolkata pedestrians from breaking rules & straying on roads
Jayanta Gupta | TNN
Aformer additional commissioner of Kolkata Police narrates this interesting anecdote whenever he is asked to speak on the city’s traffic situation. “I was taking around a dignitary who was on his first visit to Kolkata. After a while, he said he was amazed to see so many ‘traffic policemen’ on
the streets. I did not understand. He then explained that he was talking about all the people who would simply walk across the street without a care in the world, raising their palms at oncoming vehicles, expecting them to stop.”
Kolkata is a jaywalker’s paradise. At any hour of the day, on any street, through thin or heavy traffic you would see them darting across the road, or simply strolling across. Teenagers are as guilty as grandmas, woman with children in tow and smartly dressed office executives. You would think it was a part of Kolkata’s culture. A dangerous one.
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