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The Sum of Forking Paths
Paracelsus threw the rose into the fire; it bent on impact, recoiled, and fell deeper among the logs. In the gold-orange light, the stem was already black. The husk began to shrivel and split as the sap boiled away on its surface. The petals blistered and blackened and fell. The five-fingered star beneath them danced subtly, swaying in the brittle heat. For nearly an hour it lay visibly unchanged save for a gradual loss of hue and a universal greyness, then fell into three large pieces as the log crumbled around it. The ashes glowed orange, then gradually dimmed; the last visible flash of light burst outward from the remains of the stem. Like all light, it carried within it a timepiece.
Once, when the clock read noon, it traveled without hesitation in a straight path to my retina. Once it took another course, only to bend around a molecule of nitrogen and reach the same destination.
Once it traced the signature of a man no one remembers.
Once, at half past three, it decayed into a tiny spark and its abominable opposite image; their mutual horrified fascination drew them together, each a moth in the other's flame. The last visible flash of light from their fiery consummation was indistinguishable from the one that spawned them.
Once, when the clock ticked in the silence just before dawn, the light decayed into two mirrored worlds, somewhat better than ours due to the fact that I was never born there. Both worlds were consumed by mirrored dragons before collapsing back into the chaos from which they arose; all that remained was an orange flash of light.
Once it traveled to a far distant galaxy, reflected off the waters of a billion worlds and witnessed the death of a thousand stars before returning to the small room in which we sat.
Once it transcribed a short story of Borges in his own cramped scrawl, the six versions he discarded, the corrupt Russian translation by Nabokov, and a version in which the second-to-last word was illegible.
Once it traveled every path, each in its time; once it became and destroyed every possible world. All these summed to form what was: I saw an orange flash, and in that moment, I was enlightened.
Lazulinos are quasiparticles in a naturally occurring Bose-Einstein condensate first described in 1977 by the Scottish physicist Alexander Craigie while at the University of Lahore [3]. The quasiparticles are weakly bound by an interaction for which neither the position nor number operator commutes with the Hamiltonian. A measurement of a lazulino's position will cause the condensate to go into a superposition of number states, and a subsequent measurement of the population will return a random number; also, counting the lazulinos at two different times will likely give different results.
Their name derives from the stone lapis lazuli and means, roughly, "little blue stone". Lazulinos are so named because even though the crystals in which they arise absorb visible light, and would otherwise be jet black, they lose energy through surface plasmons in the form of near-ultraviolet photons, with visible peaks at 380, 402, and 417nm. Optical interference imparts a "laser speckle" quality to the emitted light; Craigie described the effect in a famously poetic way: "Their colour is the blue that we are permitted to see only in our dreams". What makes lazulinos particularly interesting is that they are massive and macroscopic. Since the number operator does not commute with the Hamiltonian, lazulinos themselves do not have a well-defined mass; if the population is N, then the mass of any particular lazulino is m/N, where m is the total mass of the condensate.
In a recent follow-up to the "quantum mirage" experiment [2], Don Eigler's group at IBM used a scanning tunneling microscope to implement "quantum mancala"—picking up the lazulino 'stones' in a particular location usually changes the number of stones, so the strategy for winning becomes much more complicated. In order to pick up a fixed number of stones, you must choose a superposition of locations [1].
- C.P. Lutz and D.M. Eigler, "Quantum Mancala: Manipulating Lazulino Condensates," Nature 465, 132 (2010).
- H.C. Manoharan, C.P. Lutz and D.M. Eigler, "Quantum Mirages: The Coherent Projection of Electronic Structure," Nature 403, 512 (2000). Images available at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/media/image_mirage.html
- A. Craigie, "Surface plasmons in cobalt-doped Y3Al5O12," Phys. Rev. D 15 (1977). Also available at http://tinyurl.com/35oyrnd.
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Things that happen in the brain that correlate well with being conscious of something.
Aleph and Omega
I shut my eyes — I opened them. Then I saw the Aleph.
I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past. How, then, can I translate into words the limitless Aleph, which my floundering mind can scarcely encompass? Mystics, faced with the same problem, fall back on symbols: to signify the godhead, one Persian speaks of a bird that somehow is all birds; Alanus de Insulis, of a sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere; Ezekiel, of a four-faced angel who at one and the same time moves east and west, north and south. (Not in vain do I recall these inconceivable analogies; they bear some relation to the Aleph.) Perhaps the gods might grant me a similar metaphor, but then this account would become contaminated by literature, by fiction. Really, what I want to do is impossible, for any listing of an endless series is doomed to be infinitesimal. In that single gigantic instant I saw millions of acts both delightful and awful; not one of them occupied the same point in space, without overlapping or transparency. What my eyes beheld was simultaneous, but what I shall now write down will be successive, because language is successive. Nonetheless, I'll try to recollect what I can.
On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realised that this movement was an illusion created by the dizzying world it bounded. The Aleph's diameter was probably little more than an inch, but all space was there, actual and undiminished. Each thing (a mirror's face, let us say) was infinite things, since I distinctly saw it from every angle of the universe. I saw the teeming sea; I saw daybreak and nightfall; I saw the multitudes of America; I saw a silvery cobweb in the center of a black pyramid; I saw a splintered labyrinth (it was London); I saw, close up, unending eyes watching themselves in me as in a mirror; I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me; I saw in a backyard of Soler Street the same tiles that thirty years before I'd seen in the entrance of a house in Fray Bentos; I saw bunches of grapes, snow, tobacco, lodes of metal, steam; I saw convex equatorial deserts and each one of their grains of sand; I saw a woman in Inverness whom I shall never forget; I saw her tangled hair, her tall figure, I saw the cancer in her breast; I saw a ring of baked mud in a sidewalk, where before there had been a tree; I saw a summer house in Adrogué and a copy of the first English translation of Pliny — Philemon Holland's — and all at the same time saw each letter on each page (as a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight); I saw a sunset in Querétaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal; I saw my empty bedroom; I saw in a closet in Alkmaar a terrestrial globe between two mirrors that multiplied it endlessly; I saw horses with flowing manes on a shore of the Caspian Sea at dawn; I saw the delicate bone structure of a hand; I saw the survivors of a battle sending out picture postcards; I saw in a showcase in Mirzapur a pack of Spanish playing cards; I saw the slanting shadows of ferns on a greenhouse floor; I saw tigers, pistons, bison, tides, and armies; I saw all the ants on the planet; I saw a Persian astrolabe; I saw in the drawer of a writing table (and the handwriting made me tremble) unbelievable, obscene, detailed letters, which Beatriz had written to Carlos Argentino; I saw a monument I worshipped in the Chacarita cemetery; I saw the rotted dust and bones that had once deliciously been Beatriz Viterbo; I saw the circulation of my own dark blood; I saw the coupling of love and the modification of death; I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my own face and my own bowels; I saw your face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes had seen that secret and conjectured object whose name is common to all men but which no man has looked upon — the unimaginable universe.
I felt infinite wonder, infinite pity…
(Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph)
A finitely-refutable question is one of the form, "Does property X holds for all natural numbers?" Any mathematical question admitting a proof or disproof is in this category. If you believe the ideas of digital physics, then any question about the behavior of some portion of the universe is in this category. We can encode any finitely refutable question as a program that iterates through the natural numbers and checks to see if it's a counterexample. If so, it halts; if not, it goes to the next number.
The halting probability of a universal Turing machine is a number between zero and one. Given the first bits of this number, there is a program that will compute which -bit programs halt and which don't. Assuming digital physics, all those things Borges wrote about in the Aleph are in the Omega. There's a trivial way–the Omega is a normal number, so every sequence of digits appears infinitely often–but there's a more refined way: ask any finitely-refutable question using an -bit program and the first bits of Omega contain the proper information to compute the answer.
The bits of Omega are pure information; they can't be computed from a fixed-size program, like the bits of can.
Colorblindness cured
Following up on my previous comments here, scientists have cured color blindness in monkeys:
Neitz's team injected their monkeys' eyes with viruses carrying a gene that makes L-opsin, one of three proteins released when color-detecting cone cells are hit by different wavelengths of light. Male squirrel monkeys naturally lack the L-opsin gene; like people who share their condition, they're unable to distinguish between red and green.
At first, the two monkeys behaved no differently than before. Though quick to earn a grape juice reward by picking out blue and yellow dots from a background of gray dots on a computer screen, they banged the screen randomly when presented with green or red dots.
But after five months, something clicked. The monkeys picked out red and green, again and again. At the biological level, Neitz can't say precisely what happened — the monkeys, named Sam and Dalton, are alive and healthy, their brains unscanned and undissected — but their actions left no doubt.
They think it will work identically in humans. If so, this means that we could do the same thing for the mutant version of L-opsin that tetrachromat women have, and make anyone (even a man) into a tetrachromat. Or, even more excitingly, a gene for infrared or ultraviolet light.
Great synesthesia FAQ
Try to see things my way…
Mice adapt to becoming trichromats pretty easily.
Turning photo albums into 3d-walk-throughs
Faces of War
The WWI mask shops took over where the rudimentary plastic surgery left off:
"Thanks to you, I will have a home," one soldier had written her. "…The woman I love no longer finds me repulsive, as she had a right to do."


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The government said on Friday that it has concluded two preliminary studies to connect electricity to Mafia island in the Indian Ocean through submarine cable and generate 7 megawatts through solar, thermal and wind sources.
Deputy Minister for Energy Ms Subira Mgalu told the National Assembly that the hybrid power was cheaper than other sources.
"The hybrid sources will add 7MW. The project will start in June this year and will complete in seven months. The French Development Bank (AFD) has shown interest to sponsor it," she said.
Currently, Mafia has only 3.8MW supply of electricity with 2.18MW being owned by the national power utility, Tanesco and 1.5MW owned by a private company, Ng'ombeni.
Ms Mgalu was responding to a question asked by Mr Baraka Dau (Mafia-CCM) who wanted to know when the government would connect the island with power from Nyamisati in the coast through submarine cables.

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An undergraduate course in Epidemiology is followed each year by 200 medical students and carries 4 credits (one credit being equivalent to 20 hours).
Graduate teaching takes place within the framework of different Master Programs of the University, particularly the Public Health Master Program, jointly launched by the Medical School and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences. Courses offered are: Fundamentals of Epidemiology, Advanced Epidemiological Methods, Principles of Public Health and Methods of Epidemiological Investigation and Data-Analysis, Perinatal epidemiology and Hospital Epidemiology.
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This story aired in February 2012
The last place you'd probably expect to find a Bible verse is on aisle five of your grocery store. But's there! It's on food items like potato chips, barbecue sauce, cereal and even a can of chili. You could call it 'Soul Food'.
When we showed the can of chili to Vivian Coleman, who was shopping at Huntsville's Star Market, she remarked, "That's a little unusual." In fact, she wasn't quite sure what to think seeing a Bible verse on a can of food.
"I don't think it's a bad thing," Coleman said. "It's definitely unusual."
Another shopper, Betsy Roberts, agreed. Her reaction to seeing scripture on the label, "Ah, okay, a Bible verse. That is new. I've not see that on a can of food before."
But Bible verses like Proverbs 15:01 have been on cans of Vietti Chili for 10 years now. The verse reads "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."
"We have to look at our labels on our products as kind of a billboard and reach out to our customers by using the labels," said Philip Connelly, President of Vietti Foods, Inc.
Connelly is the brains behind putting scripture on the chili cans. He says it's a way to reach out to consumers in a way that the competition either can't or won't.
In the past decade, Vietti's used two dozen different verses on its chili cans distributed to more than half a dozen southern states. People have taken notice.
"We get letters periodically from consumers that say, you know, I appreciate what you're doing," said Connelly. "And that means we're reaching them in a way that we wouldn't have if all they had to look at was the brand and the price."
The Bible verses are from the Old Testament. Sharing them on a label is also a testament of the company president's faith. "It is," said Connelly. "I'm a Christian and I was proud to put a scripture on the label, on each label and we'll continue to do that."
Chili accounts for only about five or six percent of Vietti Foods annual sales but still, the company produces five million cans of chili every year at its plant in Nashville. That's a lot of Bible verses.
Several hours to the west of the Music City, another company in Bartlett, Tennessee is sharing the gospel too on more than 100 of its products. But you can find them right here in the Tennessee Valley. Robert Garrett is a distributor for Brim's Snack Foods in Madison, Morgan, Lawrence and Cullman counties.
Brim's salty snacks include everything from pork rinds and cracklins to popcorn and potato chips. And on every bag they sell, you'll find a Bible verse. Visit their website and there's a tab to help you find Everlasting Life.
Garrett believes in the products he sells. In 2005, the company he worked for filed for bankruptcy. Several potential employers called him. One of them was Brim's Snack Foods.
"I told my daughter the only way that I'm gonna know that I made the right decision is God is going to have to write it on a piece of paper and hand it to me," said Garrett.
When he got home after the interview, he told his daughter Whitney about seeing scripture on every sample they showed him.
"She said 'Daddy, I think you just had your note handed to you'," Garrett said. That was seven years ago.
Like Vietti's, Brim's gets a lot of positive feedback from people. In today's world though, some might say putting scripture on a food product could hurt the sale of a product.
"We take some risks and there's a chance that some folks won't like it and that's their prerogative," said Phillip Connelly.
It looks like the risk is paying off.
"I hope so, I think so. We're doing well," said Connelly.
Some consumers like Larry Word of Huntsville will spend their money to support a company brave enough to take a stand a let their little light shine.
"I'll probably try it," Word told us. We asked him if he'd do that because of the Bible verse. He looked at us and said, "Because of the Bible verse, yes sir."


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Thursday, June 11, 2009
By any other name...
Now, I am by no means decrying the author for their choice to use a different name to promote different works. Established authors do that all the time when they want to move in a different direction. I am saddened a bit in that I liked the Kim Harrison persona. I can see why it was created; lots writers in the urban fantasy genre are offbeat in dress or personality. "Harrison" straddled those conventions rather well; I had put her falling somewhere between the outdated geek-polymath skills of Jim Butcher and the batshit insanity that is Laurell K. Hamilton. It was interesting enough to make me want to know more, without being off-putting. I knew people who were similar in tone and dress. I know people like Hamilton, too, but I don't associate with them. They weird me out, and frankly, that's hard to do.
That said, having learned a while back that Harrison lived relatively close by (in West Virginia Terms, not North Carolina terms;it boils down to "less than a couple of hours away") I had hoped to meet her at a book signing or some such, as Coralius and Aradia recently did. While that still holds some appeal, there's not as much. I have to look at it now with some wistfulness, because the author I liked is now an idea, and not a person. To phrase this vague disappointment in other terms, "There's no 'there' there."
I don't know why a nom de plume should bug me so much. It's a common convention, especially when an author is trying to keep from having preconceptions color work that goes in a different direction. I don't know how often a persona is created around a name, though. That may be it. I want people I'm interested in (even from a distance) to be real. I guess that's what separates a pseudonym from a nom de plume in my mind; the pseudonym is the same person, hiding a real name. A person using a nom de plume like this has a real name; they are a separate person from the idea they have created. That's not to say pseudonymity can't affect personality. I'm far more open and confident behind my 'nym; snarkier, too, per the John Gabriel Theory. However, those are all just factors of who I was to begin with -- I just let them out more publicly when I'm "Ranson". Since I don't know whether or not this may be just as true for the Harrison persona that Cook developed, it really shouldn't affect me.
I'm still disappointed just a little, though.
3 comments:
- Coralius said...
Umm, I never met Kim Harrison/Dawn Cook. It would have been nice, though.
Now, I have to disagree with your thoughts on the difference between a nom de plume and a pseudonym.
The only interaction we have with Kim Harrison is through her writings, barring the occasional interview. The "persona" is just a couple of pictures on the back covers of books. The bulk of your (and my own, of course) impression of "Kim Harrison" comes from what she writes. And you just can't fake the personality that comes shining through in seven books (and five short stories). Kim Harrison is not just a character that Dawn Cook has created. Kim Harrison is a part of Dawn Cook. She would have to be, or else she couldn't create and sustain such an interesting world. So we call that person by a different name. Big deal.
At the end of the day, that author is probably going to keep putting out books that we like, and that's ALL we have a right to ask of our favorite authors. And even then, they have the right to not listen to us, a la Laurell K. Hamilton.
I realize that the Kim Harrison persona was appealing to you. It was appealing to me, as well. Hell, any woman that enjoys writing about thigh-high leather boots and handcuffs is appealing to me. That's just the way I'm wired, I guess. But that woman is not gone, she's just more complex than we knew about. Framed in those terms, is it all that surprising or disappointing?
I don't think so, although I can understand why it might seem that way at first blush.
- June 13, 2009 at 5:52 AM
- Ranson said...
re: meeting Kim Harrison.
Sorry, I thought you guys had made it to a book signing. Misremembering is a bitch.
Ultimately, I agree with your assessment. This is mainly about how it struck me at first blush.
- June 13, 2009 at 5:29 PM
- Coralius said...
That's cool. I DO understand that "What the hell?!?" response.
- June 13, 2009 at 5:42 PM


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Every year we see dozens of me-too Android phones that ape the iPhone, except for one big, round giveaway: they lack Apple's instantly recognizable home button. Now that the iPhone X trades in its most defining visual feature, it's going to be easier than ever to make Android phones that look like an expensive iPhone, at a fraction of the price.
With Apple's iconic round button gone, it's going to be much harder to tell Apple's copycats from the original at first glance, especially once those other phonemakers figure out how to get the bezel-less look down pat. And especially once you slap on a case. (Xiaomi already figured out bezel-less design with its aspirational Mi Mix; now followed by the Mi Mix 2.)
We mostly see iPhone lookalikes coming from Chinese phone makers, such as Huawei, OnePlus, Xiaomi and Oppo, but there are plenty of other brands that attract buyers by making simpler smartphones that resemble other premium phones. Slim bezels, rounded edges and similar color palettes are easier to ape than expensive hardware within.
No more home button on the iPhone X also means these manufacturers no longer have to worry about including their own oblong fingerprint sensors on the front (they can go to the back).
While some of these companies take a more subtle approach to echoing the iPhone, others, like Oppo, aren't afraid to take "inspiration" from Apple, from the icon layout down to physical looks.
In relatively rich countries like the the US and UK, the iPhone X will sell widely. But in a global landscape, the iPhone X will top every other iPhone as a status symbol that far fewer can afford. It's no coincidence that lookalike phones often hail from China, a market of billions that Apple's been trying to crack for years. Homegrown vendors like Huawei and Oppo do well there, their midrange devices selling like hotcakes even with a slight premium over even cheaper rivals. Clearly, looks matter.
If there's one area that Android vendors may have a tricky time mastering, it's slashing the bezels. Just doing all the work to achieve a bezel-less phone isn't as easy as it sounds, and other Android manufacturers may not want to yet dedicate resources to mass production until they see proof of the iPhone X's commercial success.
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• Ball position, posture, and setup are next to check. If you are practicing with your wedges, the ball position should be in the middle of your stance. As your clubs get progressively longer move the ball position forward in your stance about one-half inch. Ball position with your woods will be on the instep of your forward foot. Your weight should be evenly distributed on your feet; (right to left and toes to heels). Knees are flexed slightly and tilt over from the waist so your arms hang straight down below your shoulders.
Solidify these three fundamentals. This will dictate your success. Now practice properly.
• Over practice your short game. Work on your chip and pitch shots around the green. Most strokes are lost around the greens because everyone thinks it is more important to be "Ranger Rick" and hit thousands of golf balls off the tee rather than work around the greens. Also, putt more than you chip. Work on three footers. You need to make 100 out of 100 three foot putts if you really want to improve and win the bets with your group. I have never seen a tournament won with a driver.
• Finally, swing to your target. Don't hit the ball. Swing!!!
Have fun and remember, if you need help with this tip or any other, feel free to call Greg for a lesson at 623l.328.5107 or email email@example.com.
On behalf of the entire Bunker to Bunker team and all of us at the Trilogy Golf Club at Vistancia, I want to wish you a Very Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
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Disney Beauty and the Beast promotes bestiality?
I just finished watching Beauty and the Beast with this 5 year old girl who I am currently baby sitting. As I am sitting next to her, running my rough manly hands through her fragile hair and her smooth, silky evening gown, I just can't help but wonder if Beauty and the Beast is some sort of deviant porn for children that plants a seed of a deep adoration for bestiality that will, perhaps, some day evolve into a full blown love for the feral.
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You shouldn't be babysitting that girl. You sound like a pedo.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Updating the Look of the Blog
I hope you like the new look. Our tech folks are trying to make it look more like the main MEI website; that was also the intent back in 2009, but the main website has gone through two or three evolutions and this blog had not. I hope you like it, and the branding should be clearer with the new banner.
Posted by Michael Collins Dunn at 8/13/2013 04:58:00 PM
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