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.

Last day of work

... In the last day of your work, the answer to this question with no hesitation will be a big YES!

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This program is still running. Are you sure you want to quit?

YES / NO
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what about this one?
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The company is still running. Are you sure you want to quit?

YES /NO / REMIND ME LATER (I'm going back to school)
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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.