Random excerpt from a rare 20-minute breakfast conversation (usually we only have about 5-10 minutes to eat).
"Anyone wants another piece of bread?"
"Hey, we still have some time left! Why aren't you eating more?"
"This is not like water parade, where you can always drink more if you drink slowly."
"This reminds me of Zeno's paradox."
"What's that?"
"In order to move from one point to another, you must move half the distance in a certain amount of time. But after halving the distance, you'll still need to halve the distance again in a certain amount of time... so on and so forth."
"Basically it's just sum GP to infinity."
"Yeh, the paradox is resolved by removing the assumption that an infinity number of steps must take an infinite amount of time."
"It's beautiful that infinity can be actually be described by a particular number with a particular sequence."
"OMG this must be the most intellectual conversation we've had for the past few weeks!"
"Guys, we need to fall in soon."
Exeunt.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
SHAG. Wake up at 6 am, finish live firing at 9 pm, clean weapons until 4 am, sleep from 5 am to 6 am.
There is this prefix called "meta", which seems to indicate self reference. For example, meta-ethics is philosophy of what-ethics-is (as opposed to what is ethical), meta-mathematics is the philosophy of what-mathematics-is, meta-humour is humour based on other humour sources...So I extrapolate that blogging about blogging about blogging is called meta-meta-blogging.
Interestingly, when you are meta-meta-blogging, you are also meta-blogging, since you are blogging about meta-blogging, which is blogging.
This leads me to conclude that when one says that he's blogging, he could really be doing an infinite number of things: blogging, meta-blogging, meta-meta-blogging... and (meta-)^infinity blogging.
Guess what I have been doing for the past 15 minutes. I have been meta-(meta-)^infinity blogging. Oops! I just meta-(meta-)^infinity+1 blogged! Oh no! Not again! Would Georg Cantor please tell me what I've been doing for the past 16 minutes?
There is this prefix called "meta", which seems to indicate self reference. For example, meta-ethics is philosophy of what-ethics-is (as opposed to what is ethical), meta-mathematics is the philosophy of what-mathematics-is, meta-humour is humour based on other humour sources...So I extrapolate that blogging about blogging about blogging is called meta-meta-blogging.
Interestingly, when you are meta-meta-blogging, you are also meta-blogging, since you are blogging about meta-blogging, which is blogging.
This leads me to conclude that when one says that he's blogging, he could really be doing an infinite number of things: blogging, meta-blogging, meta-meta-blogging... and (meta-)^infinity blogging.
Guess what I have been doing for the past 15 minutes. I have been meta-(meta-)^infinity blogging. Oops! I just meta-(meta-)^infinity+1 blogged! Oh no! Not again! Would Georg Cantor please tell me what I've been doing for the past 16 minutes?
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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