Lost in Translation (2)

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Also, see Lost in Translation!

Being Funny

Mortal means Funny(1), in Farsi. And "Funny in Farsi" is title of a book, in English.
 

Isn't it funny? Thangs God, we can laugh without accent!

(1) fani/فانی

Whose Donkey?

فلما تجلي ربه للجبل جعله دکا و خر موسي صعقا

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و خر عیسی

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photo 1: taken on Christmas Eve, 2009.

photo 2: either by Behzad or Hossein, Gholamhossein -- not confirmed. 

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 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 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.

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.

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.

Lefty is Flirty

I am a lefty and I like lefties!

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... when you don't know which one to select and the the lefty shines and wins your heart .

Jon Stewart

Stephen Colbert

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... when the lefty may not be the smartest yet is the loveliest.

Butters

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... when the mirror not only reflects "you" but also "you" enhanced!
(this is true when you are right-handed; otherwise the mirror completely ruins you image.)

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and ... when I'd better shut up about loving lefties!

Mccain

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PS1. when things are wrrrrrrong!!

Source of the images: all from internet!

Jesus, No Fat, Zero Colorie!

PS1. Although I am not a big fan of chocolate, after reading this I felt a strong desire to go out and get a hot cocoa and I did (Damn it, I was supposed to go out and get some source of comfort instead!!!).

PS2. Of course there are many ways to get connected to God. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, ..., Chocolate, Ice cream and many more ... but I'd rather the mix ones like Jews for Jesus, chocolate for ice cream, etc.

PS3. Jews for Jesus? It smells a little bit fishy but it seems to be for real.

Source of the images: I got the brochure on campus months ago. The address and URL of the publishers are available on th photos.

International Conference on LipoSynthesis

What is wrong here?

a) my eyes
b) fat computer scientists
c) the paper review is not blind
d) either all or none

PS. Here is the valid link to the original conference.

Anybody needs babysitting on a deadline? I'm available ...

Acknowledgment- We wish to thank Marek Karpinski and Richard Kenyon for fruitful discussions, and the second author wishes to thank Oded Schramm for babysitting on May 4.

Reference: "A Randomized Approximation Scheme for Metric MAX-CUT", W. Fernandez de la Vega, Claire Kenyon

source of the image: here

False Positive

A: Doctors say I'm dying in 6 months.
B: Don't worry, 30 years ago they told my uncle he would die in 3 months and he is still alive.
A: hmm.. but "unfortunately" Medicine has progressed so much in these 30 years.

Zoro who?

"Zohreh pronunciation" for not so dummies:
Z as 'ss' in "dessert"
o as 'oh' in "oh my God"
h as 'wh' in "who?"
r as 'rh" in "Rhodolite"
eh as 'e' in "resume"

If it is still difficult for you to pronounce my name, please feel free to call me Z as 'z' in "Zzyzx".


PS1. Zohreh is the Persian word for the planet/goddess Venus.

This illusterates why Sadeq killed himself...

In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.
در زندگی زخمهایی است که که مثل خوره روح آدم را آهسته در انزوا میخورد.

"The blind owl", Sadeq Hedayat

Source of the image: googling for ghost + googling for insect + paint + me

I have mental and social problems, what about you?

I like this picture so much (taken from my bedroom's window).

PS1. Tonight, a doctor on TV said people capable of enjoying a view after a natural disaster have either mental or social problems (He was discussing some Youtube videos taken from recent fire storms in California).

PS2. The darkness in the picture is due to the smoke and ashes after the fire.

PS3. I still can't look at this picture and help myself adoring its beauty.

PS4. If I could upload the picture in higher resolution, you could better check your mental health (click on the photo for a better resolution).

PS5. Between you and me, the air is not this bad in LA.

PS6. This post was originally posted somewhere else months ago.

Tavakkalto Ala-Allah (1)

In God we Trust

all others must pay cash

In God we Trust .. because our moms tell us not to trust people.

In God we Trust .. because there is no other way! if you dare, next time ask her/him(2) for cash, too.

Nowadays, Americans do not trust in God as they used to.. I blame credit cards!

(1) Arabic version of "I trust in God"

(2) I've followed alphabetical order not to violate genders equal rights! I like Farsi for not being sexist.

Source of the images: Internet