i am turning into an old man!!
in a few minutes my age will cross 2 jug (1 jug = 12 yrs)!!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Tick Tick Tick...
Can you here something ticking? I do. It feels like a time bomb has been set under your bed! And the funny thing is-you know the zero hour! I mean the exact time after which there will be nothing like this. Just a big BOOM and everything, as we know it, is gone!
Now here I am again. Complaining about my self. Complaining about my failures and my successes!! Though I don't know exactly whom I am complaining to. But I am complaining about everything. Everything that i am. Everything that I could be.
So lets try to find out why.
Is there any reason?
-ya.
what?
-I cannot control my self
why you cannot?
-hmm, may be I am afraid of me!
why? whats wrong with you?
-I guess everything. Everything is wrong about me. I have this problem of inertia. I am very much prone to habits. I get an inertia in about almost everything. And when I Look at the one way tunnel. I feel like a moron. I know that its a way of no return. Then again, I think that 'why don't stay calm a bit more?'. I know how it feels to be in that thing. I have past one already!! Its kind of a pain.
Actually its kind of a roller coaster. You know that once you strap yourself to the coaster there is no return. You have to climb up to the top. And then...
You fall. You fall so hard that you cannot even think of anything. But when the coaster slowly climbs up to the top, you might feel that, 'Why The hell did I get on this machine of doom!'. But alas, there is no return!
I feel exactly the same. With some more twist on it.
Now here I am again. Complaining about my self. Complaining about my failures and my successes!! Though I don't know exactly whom I am complaining to. But I am complaining about everything. Everything that i am. Everything that I could be.
So lets try to find out why.
Is there any reason?
-ya.
what?
-I cannot control my self
why you cannot?
-hmm, may be I am afraid of me!
why? whats wrong with you?
-I guess everything. Everything is wrong about me. I have this problem of inertia. I am very much prone to habits. I get an inertia in about almost everything. And when I Look at the one way tunnel. I feel like a moron. I know that its a way of no return. Then again, I think that 'why don't stay calm a bit more?'. I know how it feels to be in that thing. I have past one already!! Its kind of a pain.
Actually its kind of a roller coaster. You know that once you strap yourself to the coaster there is no return. You have to climb up to the top. And then...
You fall. You fall so hard that you cannot even think of anything. But when the coaster slowly climbs up to the top, you might feel that, 'Why The hell did I get on this machine of doom!'. But alas, there is no return!
I feel exactly the same. With some more twist on it.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Nothing!!
Speaking of Nothing, once there was a factory that invited an industrial engineer to see whether things can be made more efficient and streamlined, and whether it would be possible to eliminate some jobs due to duplications. So the engineer sees a worker who seems to be idle, and asks him: “what are you doing all day?”, “Nothing”, he replied. The engineer says “thank you” and goes on. A while later, the engineer sees another worker who seems to be idle, and asks him the same question, and gets the same answer, “Nothing”. The engineer then recommends to the manager to fire that other guy. “But that’s unfair, exclaimed the worker, that first guy is also doing nothing, and you didn’t fire him!”. The engineer replied: “That’s exactly my point, we don’t need two different people doing the same thing!”
So Nothing is really something, but only one thing.
Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.
The Empty Set In the 19th century, Leopold Kronecker famously said that “God created the integers, all the rest is man-made”. A bit later, about a hundred years ago, mathematicians and logicians thought that even integers are too complex to be really fundamental, and they tried to reduce everything, in particular integers, to sets. So the great computer pioneer, John von Neumann, when he was still rather young, came with a brilliant way to define integers in terms of sets, and all he really needed was a starting point: the empty set.
So according to von Neumann:
0 := ∅ .
Now we have one object at our disposal, so let us form the set consisting of what we have so far:
1 := {∅} .
Now, at the second day, let’s gather what we had so far, and make them into a set
2 := {∅, {∅}} ,
and at the third day, let’s define
3 := {∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} ,
and, in general
n := (n − 1) ∪ {n − 1} ,
ad infinitum.
But von Neumann’s construction can only handle integers, starting with the empty set. What about other kinds of numbers? About thirty-five years ago, John Horton Conway realized something revolutionary. All numbers are games! Now there are many games that are not numbers, so game is a more fundamental object than number. According to his own account, he felt a bit guilty that during the research slump that hit him after discovering the Conway groups, he hardly did any mathematics, but spent most of the day playing games at the common room of his Cambridge college. Only later did he realize that playing games is research, and furthermore, more interesting and significant than the vast majority of his colleagues’ research, since it lead him to the great idea that numbers are games.
That is one astonishing theory!!!! but out of the scope of this discussion !
This blog is al ready painfully large . I must end it now. Before finishing I prove a Theorem that proves the power of nothing!!! so that reader doesn't under estimate nothing
Nothing .
Theorem: (anon.) A ham sandwich is better than good sex.
Proof: (anon.) The following two assertions are obvious.
1. A ham sandwich is better than Nothing .
[Indeed!! Though I am Muslim and don't have ham, if I were stuck on a desert island, and had nothing to eat for five days, I admit that I would eat it, and it is better than having nothing.]
2. Nothing is better than Good Sex .
[Actually I cannot say it exactly, because I didn't have sex yet (very sad indeed!!). But existing data indicates that for sure!!! :p]
The theorem follows by the transitivity of the is better relation.
[Q.E.D]
Acknoledgement .
Doron ZEILBERGER for his nice talk on nothing.
So Nothing is really something, but only one thing.
Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.
The Empty Set In the 19th century, Leopold Kronecker famously said that “God created the integers, all the rest is man-made”. A bit later, about a hundred years ago, mathematicians and logicians thought that even integers are too complex to be really fundamental, and they tried to reduce everything, in particular integers, to sets. So the great computer pioneer, John von Neumann, when he was still rather young, came with a brilliant way to define integers in terms of sets, and all he really needed was a starting point: the empty set.
So according to von Neumann:
0 := ∅ .
Now we have one object at our disposal, so let us form the set consisting of what we have so far:
1 := {∅} .
Now, at the second day, let’s gather what we had so far, and make them into a set
2 := {∅, {∅}} ,
and at the third day, let’s define
3 := {∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} ,
and, in general
n := (n − 1) ∪ {n − 1} ,
ad infinitum.
But von Neumann’s construction can only handle integers, starting with the empty set. What about other kinds of numbers? About thirty-five years ago, John Horton Conway realized something revolutionary. All numbers are games! Now there are many games that are not numbers, so game is a more fundamental object than number. According to his own account, he felt a bit guilty that during the research slump that hit him after discovering the Conway groups, he hardly did any mathematics, but spent most of the day playing games at the common room of his Cambridge college. Only later did he realize that playing games is research, and furthermore, more interesting and significant than the vast majority of his colleagues’ research, since it lead him to the great idea that numbers are games.
That is one astonishing theory!!!! but out of the scope of this discussion !
This blog is al ready painfully large . I must end it now. Before finishing I prove a Theorem that proves the power of nothing!!! so that reader doesn't under estimate nothing
Nothing .
Theorem: (anon.) A ham sandwich is better than good sex.
Proof: (anon.) The following two assertions are obvious.
1. A ham sandwich is better than Nothing .
[Indeed!! Though I am Muslim and don't have ham, if I were stuck on a desert island, and had nothing to eat for five days, I admit that I would eat it, and it is better than having nothing.]
2. Nothing is better than Good Sex .
[Actually I cannot say it exactly, because I didn't have sex yet (very sad indeed!!). But existing data indicates that for sure!!! :p]
The theorem follows by the transitivity of the is better relation.
[Q.E.D]
Acknoledgement .
Doron ZEILBERGER for his nice talk on nothing.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Maxwell
"To anyone who is motivated by anything beyond the most narrowly practical, it is worth while to understand Maxwell's equations simply for the good of his soul."
-J. R. Pierce
-J. R. Pierce
Monday, July 30, 2007
'a bit'
Yesterday I could convert one of my intuitions into explicit mathematical equation. It increased my confidence 'a bit'.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Change and Re-change
It was a bit different from the very beginning. But still, it required a change! A change, that must occur. And you know? It happened!!
One day the little boy found the key to the different world. A world that he could just see from far. A world that could not be touched. Just could be dreamt about. It was a wonderful thing to happen. But, you know what? There are people who don't like to win all the time! And unfortunately (or should we say fortunately?) this boy was one of them. So after a few days, the change was almost unbearable. And it seems that it was a terrible thing to happen! Its kind of brutal to win all the time. Though winning is not very simple. Most of the time it requires a lot of hard work, lot of thought and a lot of understanding. But all these things were not so easy. It requires an unrest mind. A mind which is always thinking. Always analyzing everything around. It was a painful practice. But still the boy could not help it.
So he worked hard to get rid of it. It took exactly 2 years. And then he could again find the joy of loosing. Joy of being at the most populated side. The losers side! Maybe the loneliness of winners frightened him. But he forgot one thing, one very important thing. That started to haunt him again.
He haven't completed his duty, fulfilled the promise that he made. The sole promise that lead him to be a winner at the first place. So, he must return back. He must return to the lonely place.
Its the time to change again.
Its the time to 're-change'!
He must take a vow of complete devotion and persistence.
A vow of re-change!!!!
[kind of interesting!! You can write foolish things here. Who's gonna read this crap.]
One day the little boy found the key to the different world. A world that he could just see from far. A world that could not be touched. Just could be dreamt about. It was a wonderful thing to happen. But, you know what? There are people who don't like to win all the time! And unfortunately (or should we say fortunately?) this boy was one of them. So after a few days, the change was almost unbearable. And it seems that it was a terrible thing to happen! Its kind of brutal to win all the time. Though winning is not very simple. Most of the time it requires a lot of hard work, lot of thought and a lot of understanding. But all these things were not so easy. It requires an unrest mind. A mind which is always thinking. Always analyzing everything around. It was a painful practice. But still the boy could not help it.
So he worked hard to get rid of it. It took exactly 2 years. And then he could again find the joy of loosing. Joy of being at the most populated side. The losers side! Maybe the loneliness of winners frightened him. But he forgot one thing, one very important thing. That started to haunt him again.
He haven't completed his duty, fulfilled the promise that he made. The sole promise that lead him to be a winner at the first place. So, he must return back. He must return to the lonely place.
Its the time to change again.
Its the time to 're-change'!
He must take a vow of complete devotion and persistence.
A vow of re-change!!!!
[kind of interesting!! You can write foolish things here. Who's gonna read this crap.]
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Started!!!!
OK!
now i've started writing in English.
i have Bangla (Benglai) blog at yahoo 360.
its kind of popular!
now im trying to see how it works in English.
actually i wanna improve my English also. ;)
so lets have a try!!
now i've started writing in English.
i have Bangla (Benglai) blog at yahoo 360.
its kind of popular!
now im trying to see how it works in English.
actually i wanna improve my English also. ;)
so lets have a try!!
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