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Physicist discovers computer code in equations

Marplots: I fear that "information" is becoming the latest place to hang our mysticism hats. We will miss religion when it finally dies off. We will miss the easy target.

What do you mean "easy target"? You mean the feeling of something "more"?

No, I mean the claims that religious communities make that are easily shown false. Pretty much anything geological or historical. When they have a book, we get to point out passages and say them nay. Information theory, as practiced by the wooster, is much more slippery than that. There are a slew of terms they can miss-define and misuse. It becomes more of a philosophical stance than a mathematical one.

I remember when it was the fashion to dodge with Godel's Incompleteness theorem -- it had the sheen of mathematical truth, but was misapplied horridly, extended dreadfully, and if you tried to point this out, devotees would happily ignore anything that looked like a difficult (although correct) explanation.

To see how Shannon, codes and information theory is being misused already, take a look at this guy's site: http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/atheists-riddle-2/
 
Apathia said:
But he's so close to it that he can't see the forest for the trees and is baffled by something logicians and mathematicians of Group Theory would simply expect and gives an ignorant/mysterious twist to it.
Could you expand on this?

~~ Paul
 
Nope. Hell is actually in APL.
Anyone that has tried debugging that code will know what I mean.

V.

Heaven and hell really. For data manipulation it was par excellence and you get to learn the G(r)eek alphabet as well. :D
 
Heaven and hell really. For data manipulation it was par excellence and you get to learn the G(r)eek alphabet as well. :D

Oh I agree, but when a bunch of it is dropped into my lap with the expectation that I can fix it, it takes on a whole new relevance.

These days (actually the past 20+ years) I prefer Matlab. At least as good for handling multi-variable problems.

I've lost track of the number of .m files I've written over the years.

V.
 

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