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NEW YORK — Roger Federer moved as if the tennis court were an unfamiliar place, a place where he needed guidance, where he needed advice on how to hit a forehand or when to unleash that one-handed backhand that had earned him five U.S. Open championships and 17 Grand Slam titles, more than any other man in history.
Much of the tennis world was eagerly anticipating that for the first time, Federer and Rafael Nadal would conduct their rivalry at the U.S. Open.
Instead, 31-year-old Spaniard Tommy Robredo, who had only won three of 27 sets and never a match from Federer, stands as a U.S. Open men's quarterfinalist.
The seventh-seeded Federer lost to 19th-seeded Robredo, 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-4, in the fourth round Monday night, short-circuiting what would have been the first Federer-Nadal meeting in this tournament. They've played each other 31 times at other events.
Nadal did his part, overcoming a shaky start to eliminate 22nd-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-1.
But Federer, 32, failed to reach the quarterfinals at a second consecutive Grand Slam. He lost in the second round at Wimbledon — a defeat that ended a streak of 36 consecutive majors in which he'd advanced to the quarterfinals or beyond, a record in men's tennis.
"To be honest, it was going to be great if we were able to play that match," Nadal said about meeting Federer here. "I felt our rivalry, for so many years we were able to play in all the best scenarios around the world.
"So probably that deserves to have a match here in the U.S. Open, the biggest court in the world. But it didn't happen. That doesn't mean it cannot happen in the future. We'll see. Hopefully. But it is true we are getting older, so the chances are less today than five years ago."
The other men who advanced to the quarterfinals on this rainy day were fourth-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer, who outlasted 18th-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (3), and eighth-seeded Richard Gasquet of France, who knocked out 10th-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4) 2-6, 7-6 (9), 7-5, in 4 hours 40 minutes.
As Federer took off his headband at the net, he managed to shake hands and give Robredo a tiny smile, as the crowd at Louis Armstrong Stadium gave Federer a standing ovation. He could barely manage a small wave to the fans at Armstrong Stadium, a smaller, noisier venue than Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the match was originally scheduled before rain scrambled the schedule.
Federer, who reached the semifinals at the Australian Open and the quarterfinals at the French Open, made his earliest exit at the U.S. Open since a fourth-round defeat in 2003. This year is the first since 2002 in which he has failed to reach at least one Grand Slam final.
"I thought it was going to be a great atmosphere that I could take advantage of," Federer said. "I was prepared for it, even happy about it. But unfortunately I didn't show the game that the fans could really get into and excited about."
Such is the respect accorded to the Swiss veteran that he wasn't pushed to speak about retiring.
"I feel like I beat myself," he said. "Without taking any credit away from Tommy. Clearly he was making many balls. It was up to me to make the difference and I couldn't."
Robredo had been 0-10 against Federer before Monday.
"It's amazing," he said of the win. "For me, Roger is the best player of all times. To beat him in a . . . Grand Slam, it's like a dream. I am in the quarterfinals. It's a great day."
Federer won only two of 16 break points while Robredo took four of seven. Federer had 43 unforced errors to 26 from Robredo.
Alison Riske, a 23-year-old wild-card entrant from Pittsburgh ranked 81st in the world, had her run ended in the fourth round by former top-10 player Daniela Hantuchova, who prevailed, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, in a match interrupted by rain.
In the quarterfinals Hantuchova, 30, will play either second-seeded Victoria Azarenka or 13th-seeded Ana Ivanovic. Their match was postponed until Tuesday.
"I wasn't nervous," Riske said. "But my body acted nervous. I was really tight. I think I played really well going into today and expected that. It didn't start out that way."
Roberta Vinci, seeded 10th, beat fellow Italian Camila Giorgi, 6-4, 6-2, in 67 minutes. Giorgi had upset sixth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, a former U.S. Open finalist.
At least one Italian woman has reached the quarterfinals here for six consecutive years. This year there are two — Vinci and unseeded Flavia Pennetta, who upset 21st-seeded Simona Halep, 6-2, 7-6 (3).
Vinci, 30, and Pennetta, 31, will play each other in the quarters.
"I know I'm not that young," Vinci said, "but I still enjoy the play. I try to stay focused every single day."
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I am a blogging mom of three who sums up her chaotic days with humorous rants in between cleaning peanut butter off the ceiling fan and keeping my youngest occupied in the lazy Susan. Put your feet up and laugh at me. My neighbors do!
Monday, January 28, 2008
16 comments:
- Kalynne Pudner said...
That #4 sounds like a novel query. You should write it someday!
- January 28, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- LaskiGal said...
What a cool twist (#4). Stumbled upon your blog--not sure how, but isn't that how it goes (possibly through Manic Mom or reading about Julian . . . )?
- January 28, 2008 at 11:22 AM
- My Semblance of Sanity said...
Kalynne...thanks for the push! Maybe I would have more luck in the novel submission! :)
- January 28, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- Lainey-Paney said...
I am afraid of the dark too.
- January 28, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- Manic Mom said...
Ack, you're gonna kill me, but the number one random thing about me is that I don't do TAGS!!! Yikes!!! Can I pass the baton of tag and give it to someone else???
- January 28, 2008 at 11:53 AM
- Manic Mom said...
I hereby nominate Kalynne as honorary Taggee as I am unable to fulfill my duties!!!!
- January 28, 2008 at 12:21 PM
- Julie said...
THANKS MICHELLE!! I wasn't sure if you'd want to play along, but I'm so glad you did!!
I like the whole 6 degrees of separation thing you had going on with random thing #4!!!
- January 28, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- Shellie said...
Uh, I'm sure you had Nothing at all to do with your sister's claustrophobia :) Interesting random stuff there!
- January 28, 2008 at 1:26 PM
#3 had me laughing so hard I cried! Boy, I wish I'd thought of that when I was a kid...
- January 28, 2008 at 3:40 PM
- Tracy said...
I think I forgot my name halfway through number four. That was a doozy!
I'll post mine tomorrow and I'll let you know when it's up. Thanks for thinking of me and for thinking that I rock!
- January 28, 2008 at 3:47 PM
- Working Dad said...
I don't understand this tag game. I'm going to have to check into it.
- January 28, 2008 at 6:41 PM
- Grandmother Goddess of the Garden said...
Thanks Michelle! I think you rock too! As you know, I'm fairly new at this but will give it a try.
- January 29, 2008 at 5:06 AM
- Heather said...
I'm with Manic, but I did humor you on my blog...
- January 29, 2008 at 6:04 AM
- Beth said...
That is too funny about the sleeping bag!!!
Great post!
- January 29, 2008 at 7:00 AM
- Manic Mom said...
HA! Looks to me like Dawn is a better friend than I!!! She did the tag. Now I feel like such a terrible person. If SHE has the time to do it but I don't... well, that's just RUDE of me! ; )
- January 29, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- A Moment in the Life of a Mother said...
#3 is hysterical!! These tags are pretty interesting. You find out so much about people that make you go "hhhmmmmmm." lol. Great post.
- January 29, 2008 at 8:28 PM

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New Canaan forecast: Bah-humbug! Snow, wind & flood warnings
A meteorological lump of coal is Mother Nature's post-Christmas "gift" today for southwestern Connecticut, according to the National Weather Service.
In a "hazardous weather outlook" issued for the region today and tonight, the NWS says a snowy mix of freezing precipitation is expected to begin falling this afternoon, with high winds and coastal flooding possible.
The daytime high temperature is expected to be only in the upper-30s, with an east wind 7 to 12 mph, increasing to 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon -- and gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent, the NWS says. Total daytime snow and sleet accumulation of less than one-half inch possible.
Rain -- heavy at times -- is in tonight's forecast, and with tonight's high tide about 10 p.m. pushed even higher by the full moon, the rain and winds could trigger coastal flooding, the NWS warns. The temperature will dip to a low of about 35 degrees. There will be an east wind 24 to 31 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent.
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On Friday, skies should be sunny, the NWS says, with a high temperature near 40 degrees. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature in the low-20s.
By Saturday, there is a slight chance of snow before noon, then a chance of rain and snow later in the day. Skies will be mostly cloudy, with a high temperature in the mid-30s. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. There remains a chance of snow Saturday night, with a low temperature in the mid-20s. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.
On Sunday, snow remains possible, but skies otherwise will be partly sunny, with a high temperature in the low-30s. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature about 20 degrees.
The outlook for Monday, New Year's Eve, is partly sunny and temperatures in the 30s, according to the weather service.


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Ive got a tb 302. Generally weld fc with a suitcase. My ? Is lets say i set the dial at 25 volts. Machine says ive got 100% duty cycle. However when im actually welding it may be about 19 volts. Where or what does duty cycle cover, the dial setting or actual weld voltage?
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I know what your saying...but what im driving at is ...lets say i turn the machine up to where the digital read out is 30 volts. I know at 30 volts i do not have 100% duty cycle for welding. When in an actual weld, the display will read approx 5 volts less than what i set the dial on. So is the duty cycle what i set the machine on or what the display reads during a weld
I would say that the duty cycle covers what the meter reads while welding.
You set the meter at 30 volts, but because of variances in things like contact tip to work distance, it will not stay on 30 while welding it will fluctuate. Unless you are using a voltage sensing feeder. Anyhow, I would go with what you set the meter on so that you dont exceed the duty cycle. JMOJIM
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Your duty cycle is 100% cv/dc. In cc/dc the duty cycle is 100% at 280amps.
Your volt meter setting is not connected to your duty cycle by a mechanical means.
The duty cycle is a recommendation that should not be exceeded.
60% duty cycle equals 6 minutes of welding in a 10 minute period.
Weld more than the 6 minutes and you'll heat your machine up.
Get it hot enough and you get smoke?
That said my friend Gary used to weld all day on scrapers with a Lincoln tombstone, with 5/32 rod/electrode, and it's still going.
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President Barack Obama is gearing up for a potential fight with the Supreme Court in the event it overturns his signature legislative achievement.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the hearings at the high court on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obama exuded confidence that the law would be upheld as constitutional and set himself up for a battle with the court by labeling a potential overturn "judicial activism."
"In accordance with precedent out there, it's constitutional," Obama said at a joint press conference in the White House's Rose Garden with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, according to The Huffington Post.
"That's not just my opinion, by the way. That's the opinion of legal experts across the ideological spectrum, including two very conservative appellate court justices who said this wasn't even a close case."
This was his main point -- that overturning of the law would be an unprecedented step. It sets Obama up for a campaign against the high court should it overturn the law, portraying it as an activist and perhaps partisan bench.
Some strong words for the court:
"Ultimately I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.
"And I just remind conservative commentators that for years what we have heard is that the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint; that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example. And I'm pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step."
Groups that focused on promoting the law are already planning to shift focus should it be struck down. One group, Protect Your Car, told the Washington Post that it would paint the bench's conservatives as partisan activists.
"Since Bush v. Gore, from the progressive side, it would be the most galvanizing Supreme Court ruling ever," said Eddie Vale, a spokesman for the group. "You'd have a 5-4 court, in clearly a partisan political decision, striking down not just President Obama's biggest legislative accomplishment but also the biggest progressive legislation since LBJ."
Obama was quick to then point out the ramifications for the everyday U.S. citizen if the law is overturned -- provisions of the law that have already taken effect. These include what he said were 2.5 million children allowed to stay on their parents' plans, changes to Medicare prescription plans and various insurance industry regulatory reforms.
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While weighing in on school budgets Tuesday, voters will also have their say on the school board members who will help to set those budgets in coming years.
In addition to the race in Springs, covered separately, there are contested races in the East Hampton, Amagansett, and Sag Harbor School Districts. In Montauk, Bridgehampton, Sagaponack, and Wainscott incumbents are running unopposed.
In East Hampton, five candidates are vying for two seats.
Patricia Hope, a biology teacher at East Hampton High School for 33 years, is running to bring "clarity and transparency" to the school board and the budget process.
Paul Fiondella has expressed his view on ways to cut the budget at many school board meetings. That, and his concern over the governor's proposed 2-percent tax levy looming next year, have brought him forward as a candidate. He vows to keep costs down while not compromising academic value.
Jacqueline Lowey, who has two children at the John M. Marshall Elementary School, is a former deputy director at the National Park Service and has also served in several other posts in Washington, D.C. She is a strong proponent of public education.
Marie Elena Klarman, the mother of three children in elementary school, is a former attorney who feels her negotiation skills and understanding of contracts would serve the district well if she were elected.
Liz Pucci has been a school lunch monitor at John Marshall for a decade, and has four children who have gone through or are in the East Hampton school system. She promises an honest and open approach to her time on the school board.
In Amagansett, two incumbents are running for re-election, and Phelan Wolf is running for the first time.
Mr. Wolf, a local real estate broker and school parent, grew up in East Hampton and served as the assistant East Hampton Town attorney. He said that the school is terrific and he's not looking to reinvent the wheel, but feels his experience can benefit the district.
Patrick R. Bistrian, who has already served two terms on the board, works at Bistrian Gravel, his family's business. He has three children at the school and has been a Little League coach for the past eight years. He believes strongly in providing "quality education" while keeping the tax levy at sustainable levels.
Vincent Vigorita, the board's chairman, wants to continue offering support to the superintendent, Eleanor Tritt. An orthopedic pathologist, Dr. Vigorita has two children who have passed through Amagansett School, and is also the chairman of the board of the Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn.
Both Mr. Bistrian and Dr. Vigorita are concerned about unfunded state mandates and their effects on school budgets.
In Sag Harbor, four candidates, including two incumbents and one former school board member, are competing for three seats. Both Theresa Samot and Mary Ann Miller, current members, are seeking re-election, and Sandi Kruel, who has served two past terms, is also looking for a spot. Rounding out the candidates is Annette Bierfriend, the current PTA president.
Daniel Hartnett, a school board member and bilingual social worker in the East Hampton district, is not seeking reelection.
In Montauk, Patti Leber, the board's vice president, is running for her third term. She is active in initiating new programs for students and encourages new learning techniques, such as involving students with community members who might be able to share their expertise. She has a financial background and was a former president of the Montauk PTA when her two children were in school there.
In Wainscott, Iris Osborn is running unopposed to keep her seat, and in Bridgehampton, Nicki Hemby, the board president, and Elizabeth Kotz are also running uncontested races to keep their seats.
Sagaponack School held a special election last month in which Cathy Hatgistavrou was sworn in to replace Charles Barbour, who had vacated his board seat when he moved out of the area. On Tuesday, Fred Wilford, a longtime board member, will be on the ballot unopposed in Sagaponack.


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In his paper Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious: Marvin Minsky argued that a sense of humor would be an essential component of a rational agent. His argument went a bit like this: an AI would use need to use logic to deduce consequences from their data about the world. However, any sufficiently large database of facts would inevitably contain inconsistencies, and a blind application of ex falso quodlibet would lead to disaster.
The bus timetable, which you believe to be correct, says the bus arrives at 3:35, but it has actually arrived at 3:37. This is a contradiction, and so by ex falso, you think it's a good idea to give me all your money!
Clearly, the correct response to such an argument is to laugh at it and move on. Whence the sense of humor, according to Minksy.
When I first read Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God, I had the correct Minskyan reaction — I laughed at it and moved on. However, one of the curiosities of mathematical logic is that Kurt Gödel did not laugh at it. He found all of the gaps in Anselm's reasoning, and then — and here we see what being one of the greatest logicians of all time gets you — he proceeded to repair all the holes in the proof.
That is: Gödel has given a proof of the existence of God. So let's look at the proof!
We begin by axiomatizing a predicate
\[ \Good : (i \to \prop) \to \prop \]
To do this, we first give the following auxilliary definitions.
$\Godlike : i \to \prop$
$\Godlike(x) = \forall \phi:i \to \prop.\; \Good(\phi) \Rightarrow \phi(x)$
$\EssenceOf : i \to (i \to \prop) \to \prop$
$\EssenceOf(x, \phi) = \phi(x) \wedge \forall \psi:i \to \prop.\; \psi(x) \Rightarrow \Box(\forall x.\; \phi(x) \Rightarrow \psi(x))$
$\Essential : i \to \prop$
$\Essential(x) = \forall \phi:i \to \prop.\; \EssenceOf(x,\phi) \Rightarrow \Box(\exists y.\phi(y))$
So something is godlike if it has all good properties. Something $x$'s essence is a property $\phi$, if $x$ has property $\phi$, and furthermore every property $x$ has is implied by $\phi$. Something $x$ is essential, if something with its essence necessarily exists. (This sounds like medieval theology already, doesn't it?)
Now, we can give the axioms describing the $\Good$ predicate.
- $\forall \phi:i \to \prop.\; \Good(\lambda x.\lnot \phi(x)) \iff \lnot \Good(\phi)$
- $\forall \phi, \psi:i \to \prop.\; (\forall x:i.\; (\phi(x) \Rightarrow \psi(x))) \Rightarrow \Good(\phi) \Rightarrow \Good(\psi)$
- $\Good(\Godlike)$
- $\Good(\phi) \Rightarrow \Box(\Good(\phi))$
- $\Good(\Essential)$
The first axiom says that every property is exactly good or not good (bad). The second says that if a property is a logical consequence of a good property, it is also a good property. The third says that being godlike is good. The third property says that every good property is necessarily good. Finally, being essential (as opposed to accidental) is good. I feel like I could argue with any of these axioms (except maybe 2), but honestly I'm more interested in the proof itself.
Below, I give Goedel's result, rearranged a bit and put into a natural deduction style. Loosely speaking, I'm using the natural deduction format from Davies and Pfenning's A Judgmental Reconstruction of Modal Logic. In my proof, I use the phrase "We have necessarily $P$" to mean that $P$ goes into the valid context, and I use "Necessarily:" with an indented block following it to indicate that I'm proving a box'd proposition. The rule is that within the scope of a "Necessarily:", I can only use "necessarily $P$" results from outside of it.
This style is occasionally inconvenient when proving lemmas, so I'll also use the "necessitation rule" from traditional modal logic, which says that if you have a closed proof of $P$, you can conclude $\Box(P)$. (This rule is implied by the Davies and Pfenning rules, but it's handy in informal proofs.)
Now, their proof system is basically for S4, and the ontological argument uses S5. So I'll also make use (as an axiom) of the fact that $\Diamond(\Box(P))$ implies $\Box(P)$ — that is, that possibly necessary things are actually necessary. This saves having to mention world variables in the proof.
Overall, the proof system needed for the proof is a fully impredicative second-order classical S5 — a constructivist may find this a harder lift than the existence of God! (Can God create a consistent axiomatic system so powerful She cannot believe it?) Jokes aside, it's an interesting proof nonetheless.
We begin by showing that any Godlike entity only has necessarily good properties.
Lemma 1. (God is good) $\forall x:i.\; \Godlike(x) \Rightarrow \forall \phi:i \to \prop.\; \phi(x) \Rightarrow \Box(\Good(\phi))$
- Assume $x$ and $\Godlike(x)$, $\phi$ and $\phi(x)$.
- For a contradiction, suppose $\lnot \Good(\phi)$.
- Then by axiom 1, $\Good(\lambda x.\lnot \phi(x))$.
- Unfolding $\Godlike$ and instantiating with $\lambda x.\;\lnot \phi(x), \Good(\lambda x.\lnot \phi(x)) \Rightarrow \lnot \phi(x)$.
- We know $\Good(\lambda x.\lnot \phi(x))$.
- Hence $\lnot \phi(x)$
- This contradicts $\phi(x)$.
- Therefore $\Good(\phi)$.
- By Axiom 4, $\Box(\Good(\phi))$.
Then, we show that all of a Godlike entity's properties are entailed by being Godlike. I was initially tempted to dub this the "I am that I am" lemma, but decided that "God has no hair" was funnier. The name comes from the theorem in physics that "black holes have no hair" — they are completely characterized by their mass, charge and angular momentum. Similarly, here being Godlike completely characterizes Godlike entities.
If you accept Leibniz's principle, this implies monotheism, as well. Hindus and Buddhists will disagree, because they often deny that things are characterized by their properties. (For differing reasons, Jean-Paul Sartre might say the same, too, as would Per Martin-Löf!)
Lemma 2. (God has no hair): $\forall x:i.\; \Godlike(x) \Rightarrow \EssenceOf(x, \Godlike)$
- Assume $x$ and $\Godlike(x)$.
- By definition, $\EssenceOf(x, \Godlike)$ = $\Godlike(x) \wedge \forall \psi:i \to \prop.\; \psi(x) \Rightarrow \Box(\forall x.\; \Godlike(x) \Rightarrow \psi(x))$
- $\Godlike(x)$ holds by assumption.
- Assume $\psi:i \to \prop$ and $\psi(x)$.
- By Lemma (God is good), $\Box(\Good(\psi))$.
- So necessarily $\Good(\psi)$.
- Necessarily:
- Assume $x$ and $\Godlike(x)$.
- By definition of $\Godlike$, $\Good(\psi) \Rightarrow \psi(x)$.
- But necessarily $\Good(\psi)$.
- Hence $\psi(x)$
- Therefore $\forall x.\; \Godlike(x) \Rightarrow \psi(x)$
- Assume $x$ and $\Godlike(x)$.
- Therefore $\Box(\forall x.\; \Godlike(x) \Rightarrow \psi(x))$
- Therefore $\forall \psi:i \to \prop.\; \psi(x) \Rightarrow \Box(\forall x.\; \Godlike(x) \Rightarrow \psi(x))$
- Therefore $\EssenceOf(x, \Godlike)$
Next, we show that if a Godlike object could exist, then a Godlike entity necessarily exists.
Lemma 3. (Necessary Existence): $(\exists x:i.\; \Godlike(x)) \Rightarrow \Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$
- Assume there is an $x$ such that $\Godlike(x)$.
- By axiom 5, $\Good(\Essential)$.
- By the definition of $\Godlike$, we have $\Essential(x)$.
- Unfolding $\Essential$, we get $\forall \phi:i \to \prop. \EssenceOf(x,\phi) \Rightarrow \Box(\exists y.\phi(y))$
- By Lemma (God has no hair), We know $\EssenceOf(x, \Godlike)$.
- Hence $\Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$
We can now show that the above implication is itself necessary. We could have stuck all of the above theorems inside a "Necessarily:" block, but that would have been an annoying amount of indentation. So I used the necessitation principle, which is admissible in Davies/Pfenning.
Lemma 4. (Necessary Necessary Existence): $\Box(\exists x:i.\; \Godlike(x)) \Rightarrow \Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$
Proof. By inlining the proofs of all the earlier lemmas, we can give a closed proof of the necessary existence lemma (i.e., using nothing but the axioms and definitions).
So by necessitation, we get $\Box(\exists x:i.\; \Godlike(x)) \Rightarrow \Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$.
Now, we'll show that it's possible that God exists. I would have called it the "no atheists in foxholes" lemma, except that the US military atheists' association maintains a list of atheists in foxholes.
Lemma 5. (God is possible): $\Diamond (\exists x.\Godlike(x))$
- For a contradiction, suppose $\Box(\forall y:i.\lnot \Godlike(y))$.
- Assume $y$ and $\Godlike(y)$.
- Instantiating the contradiction hypothesis, $\lnot \Godlike(y)$.
- Therefore $\forall y:i.\; \Godlike(y) \Rightarrow \lnot \Godlike(y)$.
- By Axiom 2, $\Good(\lambda y.\lnot \Godlike(y))$
- By Axiom 1, $\lnot \Good(\Godlike)$.
- By Axiom 3, $\Good(\Godlike)$.
- This is a contradiction.
- Assume $y$ and $\Godlike(y)$.
- Therefore $\lnot \Box(\forall y.\lnot \Godlike(y))$.
- By quantifier twiddling, $\lnot \Box(\lnot \exists y.\Godlike(y))$
- By clasical definition of possibility $\Diamond (\exists y.\Godlike(y))$
Now we can finish off Gödel's argument!
Theorem 1. (God necessarily exists): $\Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$
- By Lemma (Necessary Necessary Existence), $\Box[(\exists x:i.\; \Godlike(x)) \Rightarrow \Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))]$
- Necessarily $(\exists x:i.\; \Godlike(x)) \Rightarrow \Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$.
- By Lemma (God is Possible), $\Diamond ((\exists x:i.\; \Godlike(x)))$.
- Stipulating $\exists x:i.\; \Godlike(x)$:
- By using the implication, $\Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$.
- Therefore $\Diamond \Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$.
- In S5, $\Diamond \Box P$ implies $\Box P$ for any $P$.
- Therefore $\Box(\exists y:i.\; \Godlike(y))$
When I set out to understand this proof, I wanted to see where the proof was nonclassical — I initially thought it would be funny to constructivize his argument and announce the existence of a computer program which was a realizer for God. It turns out that this is impossible, since this is a deeply classical argument. However, there might still be some computational content in this proof, since Jean-Louis Krivine has looked at realizability interpretations of very powerful classical systems such as ZF set theory. AFAICT, the tricky part will be finding a specific predicate satisfying the axioms of $\Good$.
However, as far as understanding the proof goes, the use of excluded middle actually turns out to not bother me overmuch. After all, proving that it is not the case that God doesn't exist, sort of makes a good case for apophatic theology, which is pretty congenial to me as a cultural (albeit firmly atheist) Hindu!
Instead, the part I find most difficult to swallow is the proof of the possible existence of God, because it runs afoul of relevance. Specifically, the proof that $\Godlike(y) \Rightarrow \lnot \Godlike(y)$ does not use its hypothesis. As a result, I find myself quite dubious that being $\Godlike$ is a $\Good$ property (Axiom 3).


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After my last column citing some really bizarre flaws in how our brains perceive reality, I thought I might cover some flaws in logic that are applicable in the world of quality. So, basically, even if our brains are working correctly, we can still send our Black Belts off on false trails trying to solve problems, thus offering more proof (as if we need it) for Voltaire's observation that "common sense is quite rare."
I ran across this very cool site organizing logical fallacies into a taxonomy. (OK, so the Internet empowers my nerdosity….) Now as you know, our work in quality is not pure logic (i.e., what is consistent) but science (i.e., what works). Ptolomy was logical when he said the Earth does not move because if it did:
"… all those things that were not at rest on the Earth would seem to have a movement contrary to it, and never would a cloud be seen to move toward the east nor anything else that flew or was thrown into the air. For the Earth would always outstrip them in its eastward motion, so that all other bodies would seem to be left behind and to move toward the west." (Ptolomy in Almagest)
A statement of perfect logical consistency, but it is incorrect due to a number of mistaken hidden premises. However, it took about 1,600 years before somebody actually tested that statement.
If you think about it, a lot of what we do is try to create a model of a production process that is "close enough" to reality to be useful, which is all that applied science tries to do.
However, logic is a necessary (if not sufficient) requirement of science, so it is worthwhile to take a look at some common, and tricky, logical fallacies to avoid wasting time and money. Following is an insidious favorite.
The Latin translates to "with this, therefore because of this." You probably heard this one in your first statistics class as "correlation is not causation," and it is treated humorously in this comic strip in figure 1:
Just because deaths due to drowning and ice-cream sales are strongly correlated does not mean that banning ice cream at the beach will prevent drowning. So even when we find a significant correlation or association in a statistical analysis, we can't assume a causal link.
When we see a significant correlation, this could be due to:
While helping a client, we were looking at the recent historical production rate of a steel mill, stratified by operator, and saw something like this in figure 2:
Properly running the analysis of variation (ANOVA), we found that these operators are, in fact, significantly different from each other in the speed at which they run the mill. The supervisor I was working with was all ready to post these results on the daily management board, with the stated intent to "create a little competition," which would presumably ratchet up the mill production. He was also preparing to kick Operator 3's booty, saying that he ought to know better, since he had been around for awhile. In fact, the supervisor was kind of surprised because Operator 3 was "the one everyone went to with questions on the mill. He probably is getting lazy and just needs a wake-up call."
Although that hypothesis is consistent with the data, it is not the only hypothesis that is (keeping in mind that correlation is not causation), so I suggested that we go and have a non confrontational talk with the operator.
What we found was that when the other operators had a lot of material to run that was difficult, they set it aside for Operator 3 when he came in. Of all the operators, he could run the most difficult stuff the fastest. In this case, there was a true difference, but that difference was in the opposite direction: It was not that the mill was slower because of the operator, but that the operator was slower due to what he was given to run on the mill.
You can avoid making this error. Never assume any type of relationship is causal until you have real proof that it is. The only way to do that is by designing a true experiment. Correlations of existing data during the early stages of problem solving provide one valuable input into our experimental factor-selection process, but are not sufficient alone to determine causality.
In our mill example above, we were just looking at existing data to get a picture of the process to identify factors for an experiment to increase production. If we had really intended to determine causality, we might have assigned the different operators similar things to run at various times and compared those speeds.
I also want you to notice that the choice of statistical technique employed (e.g., measures of correlation, measures of association, linear or nonlinear regression, or ANOVA) does not protect you from this error. Only you as the human brain involved in the process can do so.
Hopefully, you now feel better about the role of the human brain in the science of quality than you did after my last column.
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Today, Ricardo Moreno–Senior Director, Strategy, Planning & Programs, Worldwide Partner Organization–blogged about evolving our channel partner program and specific architecture specializations: Borderless Networks, Collaboration, and Data Center.
As Cisco evolves its products and services to map to architectures, partners and customers must develop new skills to be successful. Engineers will need to be able to devise network-centric architectures, and salespeople will require the ability to identify business issues and map technology solutions to the issue.
Building competencies in key areas including business consulting, architecture practice and business and solution modeling will position channel partners with the skills they need to thrive in this new architectural framework.
As the Global Director of the Worldwide Learning Partner Channel, my team works directly with our network of more than 450 strategic partners located in over 130 countries globally.
Learning Partners are authorized by Cisco to deliver technical, certification, product, and solutions training. They are key to supporting the company-wide transition to architectural strategy by delivering architectural proficiencies and related certification courses.
You have undoubtedly joined the more than 300,000 worldwide Cisco customers and channel partners who annually receive authorized training and enablement through Authorized Cisco Learning Partners.
To help Cisco partners and customers make the shift to architectures, we're working closely with Learning Partners to create specialized training and skills development. In fact, Cisco is evolving its entire global Learning Partner Channel program to deliver architecture-based skills and training.
To speed customer adoption of the new architectural approach and help partners embrace architectural capabilities, Cisco is transforming its Worldwide Learning Partner Channel program into two tracks for FY12:
1) Learning Partner Associate partners will focus on core technology training and preparing end-users for career certification.
2) Learning Partner Specialized partners will evolve their practices to provide specialized training in specific areas of expertise mapping to Cisco Architectural Specializations.
There are well over 1.1 million Cisco certified engineers globally in support of our customers and channel partner success and we see Cisco Authorized Learning Partners as the key catalysts for the growth and professional development of those engineers.
With training through Authorized Cisco Learning Partners, partners and customers can be confident that they have access to best-in-class Cisco training tailored to the their unique needs.
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I just wanted to share some of the response we received to our recent article, "Should Universities Ban Bottled Water." Pennsylvania State University's College of Education Ph. D Candidate, Peter Buckland claims that, "The pros for bottled water are pretty vapid and easily refuted" by the following arguments (directly quoted):
- People have not turned to less healthy alternatives in any study I have seen.
- In the name of convenience universities can work with students to create easy-to-reuse bottles that they can carry with them. That is real convenience.
- Choice is used to create a false sense of entitlement that generates waste in the name of freedom and convenience. It's utter nonsense. Smokers said it should be their choice over other people's health to smoke wherever they wanted to when the side effects were clear. The same argument, though more protracted works in this case.
- The notion that you make bottled water always available in the name of an emergency when the emergency doesn't exist at all times is pretty silly. Though the analogy is a little bit weak in this case, everyone isn't allowed to carry a concealed weapon because there MIGHT be a killer in the restaurant you are in. Should we have access to any other number of ecologically and socially degrading things in the name of disasters? If anything, that's an argument for the stockpiling and reserving of water for emergencies. When I was a kid we had a giardia outbreak where I lived and the national guard brought us water. Take care of water with tax money and not with private waste.
He makes some interesting points… What do you guys think?
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Earlier this week, I questioned whether or not Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB) IPO signaled that social networking stocks were due to fall.
The answer is no.
Social networking stocks have their problems – and I don't favor them as an investment – but Facebook's falling stock has nothing to do with it.
However, there's one stock that's headed for trouble thanks to Facebook's botched IPO.
I'm talking about Nasdaq OMX Group (Nasdaq: NDAQ).
Of course, Nasdaq OMX Group runs the Nasdaq Exchange, upon which Facebook's shares trade.
But it turns out that Nasdaq doesn't run it all that well.
Some problems were immediately apparent. The start of trading was delayed by 30 minutes while Nasdaq grappled with technical problems. Once shares did start trading, everything seemed to be okay – aside from Facebook's falling share price.
And it soon became clear that things weren't going well.
Nasdaq's systems didn't function properly and investors who entered buy and sell orders couldn't tell if they had been executed or not. That's a harrowing position for institutions trading millions of dollars and not knowing whether or not they're holding a falling stock.
An anonymous hedge fund manager called Business Insider to relay his experience. Apparently, Nasdaq was taking orders but wasn't actually executing the trades because the systems weren't working.
Essentially, they were writing down buy and sell orders and thinking, "We'll figure it out later."
Nasdaq has admitted it screwed up and that it should have delayed the IPO further to sort out the problems. The SEC and FINRA have already announced investigations. And at least one investor has filed a class action suit, though that number is bound to rise.
When the next big IPO chooses what exchange to list on, you can be sure that this incident won't be forgotten. Whether it's enough to drive future offerings to the New York Stock Exchange run by NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) remains to be seen. But if so, Nasdaq will lose out on listing fees (Facebook paid $250,000) and the earnings from all the future volume of trading.
The Facebook IPO alone doesn't warrant such a harsh stance on Nasdaq's future, but it has plenty of other problems.
Over the last year, 89 companies have chosen to come to market on the NYSE, compared to Nasdaq's 71.
An even greater issue is that exchanges like the Nasdaq make money on volume – but volume on major exchanges is decreasing. There's no two ways about it. Ever since the 2008 boom years, stocks simply haven't traded on the NYSE and the Nasdaq as heavily.
One reason is that there's just less trading than there used to be.
But another reason is that a large amount of volume is moving off of the major exchanges to small exchanges – like BATS and Direct Edge – and to unregulated "dark pools." While overall volume declines, the marketshare of dark pools continues to grow, reaching 13% last month.
These smaller exchanges don't face the same regulations that hamper major public bourses, allowing them to out-compete the major exchanges on several fronts, including secrecy, fractional penny pricing and charging different prices to different customers.
In other words, Nasdaq (and the NYSE) is being out-innovated in its own backyards.
As of now, the peak of Nasdaq's revenue was 2008 but earnings have continued to grow through cost cutting. And earnings growth that's achieved through efficiency gains can only continue for so long.
Nasdaq's valuations are low enough – around eight-times earnings and yielding 2.4% – that it's not a clear short candidate right now, but the price-to-earnings has been compressing for the last three years. Notable shareholders like Citadel Partners, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and SAC Capital all reduced their holdings last quarter.
Bottom line: When it comes to social networking stocks, you could make the argument that the potential for future growth justifies the lofty valuations. But Facebook's IPO shows that Nasdaq doesn't have such a bright future.
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NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – SINGAPORE: Google is seeking to sign up more small merchants and encourage more retail payments with its Tez mobile payments service in India, an app now mainly used for peer-to-peer funds transfers.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Google's new payments app in India, Tez, uses proprietary sound-based technology to enable mobile payments–shunning both NFC and also apparently scannable QR codes, as the tech giant seeks to break into the country's rapidly growing but increasingly crowded digital payments market.
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NFC TIMES Exclusive – One of the key battlegrounds for Apple, Google and Samsung as they seek more users for their respective Pays wallets is transit ticketing–with all three tech giants targeting both open-loop payments and–perhaps surprisingly–also closed-loop transit cards. (See table below).
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – With U.S. banks finally beginning to issue dual-interface EMV cards in significant numbers this year and more U.S. merchants accepting contactless and NFC payments, a key question becomes whether contactless card payment will help or hurt the prospects for what has generally been considered as disappointing take-up of NFC wallets.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Half of all domestic face-to-face transactions with Visa-branded cards globally–outside of the U.S.–are expected to be contactless within the next two months, with Visa reporting that contactless technology is maturing in numerous countries worldwide, mainly in Europe and Asia.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Contactless transactions in Canada topped 50% of all in-store card transactions for the first time ever during the first quarter of this year, said the country's largest payments card processor, Moneris, this week.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Transactions from contactless bank cards in the U.S. will "quickly surpass" those from NFC phones by the end of 2020, despite cards being rolled out much later than NFC-enabled wallets, industry veteran Randy Vanderhoof, head of the Secure Technology Alliance industry trade group and the affiliated U.S. Payments Forum, told NFC Times.
NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Samsung Pay is the first of the major NFC Pays wallets to announce it is working with Taiwan's large closed-loop transit and retail payments service EasyCard, as it seeks to differentiate itself in a crowded and fast-growing mobile-payments market on the island nation.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – U.S.-based Nxt-ID disclosed late Thursday that the spin-off of its payments unit, Fit Pay, which provides bank card provisioning for Garmin Pay, would again be delayed, as it waits another couple of weeks for the closing of a nearly $17 million loan it needs to move forward with the new company.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – While Australia is the top market worldwide for use of contactless bank cards at retail, any hopes for those same open-loop cards and card credentials on NFC phones being used as part of a nationwide, interoperable transit payments service have been dashed for now.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - A filing that Microsoft Corp. submitted Monday to the Federal Communications Commission suggests the technology giant will likely add phone service to its line of hand-held media players, now known as Zunes.
According to the filing, Microsoft and other firms will submit for the agency's approval a prototype of a wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. Apple Inc. made a similar filing, although chose a different technology, in advance of announcing its iPhone in January.
Since Apple AAPL, -1.71% unveiled the iPhone last month, speculation about a competing device from Microsoft has been rampant. Just as the iPhone descends from Apple's iPod, many think Microsoft's phone would descend from the Zune.
In the filing, Microsoft MSFT, -1.17% describes a wireless device that utilizes OFDM, a technology that can be used to route digital TV and voice calls among devices. Versions of OFDM have been tested and deployed for mobile phone use by carriers including Sprint Nextel Corp. S, +4.20% and closely-held Clearwire Corp.
Microsoft says that the intended use of the device is "consumer broadband access and networking."
The FCC filing makes no mention of the Zune, though Rob Enderle, an analyst with the research firm the Enderle Group, said the filing seems to indicate "an internet device or a mobile VoIP phone," that "certainly could be a Zune derivative product." Enderle said the Zune's current wireless capability only enables peer-to-peer sharing.
A VoIP-enabled Zune would differ greatly from the iPhone, which is intended for use on cellular networks. AT&T Inc.'s Cingular Wireless network will be the first to carry the iPhone.
Enderle said that Microsoft would likely want to avoid partnering with large cellular carriers, who would demand a high level of control over product launches.
The filing also includes questions from officials about device specifications and Microsoft's official replies to those queries. A Microsoft spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Microsoft is part of a broad coalition of tech companies that has lobbied regulators for expanded wireless access to the Internet. Others in the coalition, which are mentioned in the filing as taking part in submitting the device for testing, include Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp.
The coalition has focused on encouraging the FCC to make unused wireless spectrum -- originally allotted for things like digital TV -- available for Internet communication.


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2. When someone tells you that they liked the movies better than the books:
3. Or even worse, when someone tells you they liked Twilight better than Harry Potter:
4. You get very involved in discussions about Harry Potter.
5. When you find out that a person you were friends with does not like Harry Potter:
6. Starkid is the best Harry Potter fan-made parody ever created.
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7. You love introducing your friends to Harry Potter.
8. Your reaction when people bash Hufflepuffs:
9. When you meet someone who loves Harry Potter as much as you do you instantly become best friends.
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11. You went to the midnight premiers in full Harry Potter costume.
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14. JK Rowling is your queen.
15. Your favorite number will always be 394.
16. You will go to LeakyCon before you die.
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21. You love reading articles about what happened to the characters after the books ended... whether they are accurate or not.
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