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image from here

We can always redefine who we are; we just need to know ourselves first.

Not in Law

- My boyfriends's sister's boyfriends is ...

- You mean your brother not in law?

Christmass

"In a Christmas day, there are two types of creatures in the streets: Dogs & International students.",
Here is the dog and the photo is taken by an international student.

PS. Photo is taken by a friend on last year's Chrismass day.

Being Human Being (II)

(picture from Matrix movie)

Made by other human beings, by definition, human beings are artificial;
Needless to say, animals are not.

I'm stuffed.

a real pumpkin pie.

Today is the food appreciation day. Turkey, pumpkin pie, gravy, mashed potato, ... faloodeh, baghlava ...

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Today is the day "turkeys come first" ... in getting stuffed.  Then it's our turn to get stuffed by the stuffed turkeys. 

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I have food. I eat more to show I am thankful. 

You don't have food, then eat less to show you are not thankful.

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Tomorrow is another day. Tomorrow is Black Friday....Tomorrow is the shopping appreciation day. 

Once upon a time

Today I'm going to tell you the story of this painting of mine. To be more accurate three stories ...

Story 1:

Once upon a time, in this random double sunny day, the bald Mr Sun was thinking how to start a conversation with the perfect Miss Sunshine after seeing her 24/7 for many years(1).  If a "What a sunny day!" would be appropriate to start with?

- If Miss sunshine's idea of Mr. Sun is not positive, let her wait for another 5 billion years and become a red giant.

- FYI: Mr. Sun has not made his mind yet.

Story 2:

Mrs. Mobydick, wife of Mr. Mobydick, is concerned if her new baby shows that she has cheated on Mr. Mobydick. 

- what's your idea? Does it show? Thanks God the baby is still a mammal. 

- Let's hope the crazy and dangerous Mr. Mobydick  will not find out.

Story 3:

An invisible man is coming back after climbing the mount. 

- Sorry that the third story was not that exciting. I had to mention it as it was happening the same day.

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Question: Isn't it artistic to have three stories in just one picture? 

If yes, I can add more stories of some invisible creatures to make it more artitstic. 

If no, I don't have to fabricate the above mentioned stories. Thank you.

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(1) "year" in Earth system.

PS. If you are wondering what those palm trees are on the whale, you remember Sindbad camping on a whale? this is that kind of whale!!

Did you smile?

It is always good to have a smile on your face, every smiling face looks more beautiful ...

(photo from here)

but sometimes you should rethink before smiling! To find out why, take a step by step look at my scanning of a random girl in the bus:

1) She has a ring, the ring looks strange and cheap. Anyways, it means she is married.

2) She is writing with her left hand! Woooow, she is lefty.

3) A rainbow on her T-shirt!!! Ooooo, she is gay! smiling to yourself :) so, she may not be married "like what we have in our country"(1).

Photo from National Geographic

4) Looking at her T-shirt again: "Smile! if you're gay". Trying to stop your smile :-) -----> :-|

(photo from here)

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Quiz:
"To smile or not to smile?", ...
a- shows your sexual orientation.
b- is your personal preference.
c- you are born this way.
d- if you chose none of the above, then say "YES" on proposition 8.

I think if scientists prove that:
- your sexual orientation is not just your personal preference and you are born the way you are
AND
- people do not catch their sexual orientation from each other

then there will be no need to ask people to vote on a matter like this.

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(1) Ahmadinejad: “In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country."

Life Sciences

Everything started from a simple chemistry,



... and ended up in physics.


... They lived happily ever after ...



... when they were not doing the maths.



PS. Pictures all from Internet.

Being Human Being

[References are provided since you may need some background to get this post.]



Your being as a human being is under question when you are in an arbitrary room communicating with the outside world using only a typewriter machine (1).




Your "understanding" is under question when you (a non-Chinese) are in a Chinese room (2).




An elephant's being an elephant is under question when it is being touched in Rumi's dark room (3).



(1) Turing Test
(2) Chinese room
(3) Elephant in the room

Being a Feminist

(Even if it is a misunderstanding) this is my understanding (1)of feminism:

"To expect men not to be sexist and women be."

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(1) based on my observation not the definition
photo: myself

Being Nerdish

(photo from here)

Being nerdish is to feel like you are in Disneyland when visiting Silicon Valley for the first time.

(photo from here)

When I grow up, I want to become a Disneyland worker.

Being a Girl

"To be a girl or to be a doll?", That is the question.

(Left: little girl, little boy, woman, man)
(Right: doll, superman, woman, man)

"Be a doll", this is the answer. Nobody wants a real girl.


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PS1. the picture is "conceptually" magnified for a better resolution.
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Photo elements from Internet, edited in Paint.

Being Thankful

What is better than not having something and being happy for ...
What is worse than having something and being thankful for that...

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The only person has ever told me that I have a beautiful smile was a poor old man - who did not have one of his front teeth.

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What is better than not having something and being happy for who does?
What is worse than having something and being thankful for that in front of who does not?



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photo: from here

Being Romantic

when you work with numbers it is mostly about: "0", "1" and "greater than one" cases.
0, 1, ..., N, ..


but when it comes to people, it would be about "1", "2" and "some".


I suppose, being romantic is to make yourself understand, to understand, and/or to act like you understand that
"2" and "some" are no longer in the same category.

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image: edited microsoft word images.

The Rule and the Ruler

What matters more? the rule or the ruler?

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If we did not have a sound rule like this,

did it matter how the ruler looked like?

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As this is the rule,

image of Cyrus cylinder from wiki

who cares if Sparta's oligarchy looked closer to democracy and Persians' monarchy closer to dictatorship?

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Image from: The great debater movie

"James Farmer Jr.: In Texas they lynch Negroes... What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog... No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow south. ...not when we are lynched. St Augustine said, "An unjust law is no law at all." Which means I have a right, even a duty to resist. With violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter." from the great debater movie

God and Computer Science - For Evolutionists

[previous: God and Computer Science - For Abrahamic believers]

Teaching Evolution

Even if you think you already know what evolution is about, click on the photo to review it with Mrs. Garrison:

(South park, Season 10, episode "Go, God Go-1")

When I was a kid I used to think that communists do not believe in God; instead they say that nature creates itself, so Nature is their God! As a result, I used to think Russians worship flowers and trees!

You see, if we don't teach these stuff in the schools, our kids have to learn it somewhere else from each other and it may make them this confused!!!

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When I became older, I was told that the theory of evolution's already been disproven by (?) Motahhari,: "Our grandpa is Adam! Let Darwin be the offspring of a monkey if he wants to."(1)

(Charles Darwin as an ape, 1871, Hornet magazine)

Evolution
Each generation gets some features of its parents and adds some changes (mutations) to it. Fitted offspring s have a better chance to survive. Over many generations new species appear.


Genetic Algorithms
Genetic algorithms are a class of heuristic search algorithms try to find solutions to the optimization problems. Each generation is called a population. The very first population is called "seed".
Pseudo-code of a genetic algorithm:

1. Choose initial population
2. Evaluate the fitness of each individual in the population
3. Repeat until termination
   
   1. Select best-ranking individuals to reproduce (2)
      
   2. Breed new generation through crossover and mutation and give birth to offspring
   3. Evaluate the individual fitnesses of the offspring
   4. Replace worst ranked part of population with offspring

I think Nazis were just accelerating stage 3.1 of the algorithm (natural selection) by their "life unworthy of life" designation. Also, this picture illustrates fitness function evaluation in 3.3 in an unnatural way.

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The complexity of general problem of creation is still NP-complete. However, an evolutionist believes our world is not perfect yet. Of course, it is very "close to optimal" but is "not optimal" as long as mutations make mistakes like the case I called it God's injustice here.

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(1) A better quote on evolution: "Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!" by Doris Lessing.

God and Computer Science - For Abrahamic believers

An introduction to the theory of complexity

• P: The class of problems that are solvable with limited time and power.
• NP-Hard: The class of problems that need unlimited time or power to be solved.
  
• NP: The class of problems that given an instance of their solution can be verified in limited time.
• NP-complete: The class of problems that are in NP-Hard class and also are in NP.
  

Complexity of creation

• Making artificial things is a P-problem.
• God's creation of nature, which cannot be done with limited power of man but is scientifically understandable, is an NP-Complete problem.
• ... and miracles are not in NP!!!

The big question
How God's creation machine works(1)?

- In the beginning there was God and there was nothing. Then at the time we usually call it the Big Bang, he created an NP-solver machine.
Since then, "he just says "be" and it exists" (2). Just a simple reduction, makes creation of nothing more difficult than creation of something else!
For the same reason P /= NP, He is greater than what man can describe.

Believers and nonbelievers
Agnostics: P /=NP xor P=NP
Atheists: P = NP
Theists: P /= NP

So far, mathematician are agnostic to the problem of P==NP, but the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a $1 million US prize to the first proof to that. I doubt theologists are this passionate for finding a definite answer to the problem of existence of God. Or, maybe that think they have already found it?

P~NP
Genetic Engineering is an approximation to the creation.


PS1. source of the second image: internet
(1) mostly based on Muslim beliefs.
(2) Quran

Imitation sucks!

(Google's first day of summer logo)

When you use somebody else's idea, in the best case you are one step behind.

(Yahoo's second day of summer logo)

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PS. Yahoo does not have such a logo. It is a mixture of my photos and paint.

The art of presentation

There is a Persian saying that says (1)


but recently I have learned that (2)


(1) Two hundred words do not worth half an action.
(2) "ninety percent of success is showing up", an American quote made famous by Woody Allen (3).
(3) Jeffery Gilmore, "Little black book of connections".

On Inequality and Descrimination

All people are different ...

but some people are more different than others.



Q- While even God is not fair, why should we?
A- To show we are not following him.


PS1. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others", Animal Farm.
PS2. Fingerprint and Indian kid with two faces.