TODAY:

- Going to KU today via bus to learn more about program. I desperately need a change of pace from UMKC.

- Picking up a silly plant and petting a silly cat because, for some reason I don't understand, the cat and the plant and the owner of both aforementioned things means something to me.

- Sniffling to myself at all the stupidity of the past ( Read more... )

ARGH. I was on a coffee fueled sermon here and I lost it ( Read more... )

I live each day like my last, but fail to plan for tomorrow as if I shall live forever.

I'm feeling more clear headed than I have in a while. I feel like doing math problems or arguing philosophy while sipping cold tea on a warm hill under the sunshine.

I'm thinking of my novel, which has been sitting unfinished. It occurs to me that, in general, the ( Read more... )

Something Faulty Here

1.) Do not talk about depression. You will bring other people down.
2.) If you don't express your depression, somehow, you will get cynical and irritable and bring everyone else down anyway.

3.) Do not depend on other people.
4.)

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"This refutation stresses the oddness of quantum correlations. Not only are they independent of the distance, but also it seems impossible to cast them in any real time ordering..." - (Stefanov, Gisin, et al 2008)
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0110/0110117v2.pdf

In relativity there is space-time out there. In quantum mechanics there is ( Read more... )

For proving the wave function extends in time ( Read more... )

Why (At Least Some of the) People who Try to Argue with Penrose's Interpretation of Godel's Theorem and the Brain are Wrong in one short sentence.

From a common refutation of Penrose's proofs summed up @ http://www.1729.com/consciousness/godel.html

"Let us make the following ( Read more... )

Note to Self: When feeling significantly sciencey, learn more about Godel's Theorem, get more comfortable with tensors, and read parts of this cool blog: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/

WARNING: highly personal Woody Allenesque overly reflective personal nonsense here.

I rarely if ever post or give voice to negative emotions without some kind of a qualifier, unless I am ranting about a particular aspect of something I think should be changed and thinking up alternatives (I'm all for positive action and such). But...sometimes I ( Read more... )