Nature to stand out? - Part II July 31, 2007
Posted by nbeyond in : speculation - extreme , add a commentContinuing from the article nature to stand out? - part I, I’d like to talk more about the second world in details on this post. For your recap about the previous article, the second world has more standing-out tendency than the blue world (the first world), because it has a wider range of colors than mere blue. This may represent a variety of heterogeneity that one may experience in his or her life. If we all are on our own vehicles moving at the same speed in the same route, we do not even need any race, because we all arrive at the same time.
In contrast to the blue world, this is not true in the second world. Although we have same vehicles, each road has ups and downs or some dead ends so that we have to go backward to make it right and try other alternative routes. Thus, there are good chances that you may make a mistake or keep making mistakes in your life, which to make it simple here is a race.
Let’s look at these individuals described as a whole bunch of red dots in the figure. This is a snap shot taken in the middle of the race happening in the second world.
Red dots are us taking journey in the second world, a world with diversity
Maybe because some are lucky or just capable of going fast, these red dots are not aligned with a horizontal line where they started their race. Some go faster than others. Some are efficient and another are less efficient or may not be interested in this race at all. Some may be trapped in dead zones and keep making decisions that keep trapping them in the dead zones. Here’s a more detailed description zoomed in the race.
Paths that some standing-out racers prefer
If you look at this figure, you can clearly see the gray bold thick arrows preferred by some outstanding individuals. They simply go faster by taking the faster paths, in which they may enjoy freewheeling downhill or are capable of finding short and fast cuts. This second world clearly shows the tendency of “Standing Out from the crowd.”
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Random numbers - Making fair decisions July 20, 2007
Posted by nbeyond in : science, speculation - extreme , 3commentsWhen I first heard about creating random numbers in one of the courses in math department many years ago, I could see some passion from the professor explaining about.
What’s so fascinating about generating random numbers? He must be acting….
This is exactly what I thought back then. Random numbers are random numbers. Just computer generated. As the course went on, I started to see the power of creating random numbers if we can create so many in a very short time. This may sound very strange though. This is somewhat true if you think this way.
Flipping a coin is exactly same to create random numbers. The question is how fast you can flip the coin.
If you think each random number as each individual like a human, creating so many random numbers in a short time can mean we can create so many individuals that live their own lives in a very short time. In other words, so many generation simulation in a very short time. Just imagine thousands of generations and how the generation changes generation by generation. This is undoable in reality because time goes so slow and we live very short time but very much doable if we make random numbers individual-like and have a power to create so many random numbers in a short time using computers.
What for?
A random number is a random number not a human. How can you think like that?
Yes, it is a number. Just think about why we flip a coin? Maybe to be fair! Why should it be fair? The meaning of FAIR is attached to decision makings. Could somebody just make some fair decisions for us? Yes, we flip a coin to have fair decisions so that we can settle on whatever issues of our interests. Creating random numbers is making fair decisions if we can. Yes, we can create so many of almost (I say almost) FAIR decisions in a very short time with a help of computers. I’ll continue this post with What kind of world, then, must these individuals (random numbers) live?
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Nature to stand out? - Part I July 12, 2007
Posted by nbeyond in : science, speculation - extreme , add a commentSince the article I wrote about Stand out from the crowd! What for?, the article reminds me of some figures I have made before. Let’s look at the figure first.
A world with a small difference of individuals
Imagine this picture as a world that you travel. Although there is some color variance, more or less we can call blue. Let’s name this world as the blue world. The blue world has a bluish difference we have one another in this world. Here, we do our own journey. Some may call the journey as a race from the bottom line to the top line of the world. As always, there is going to be winners or losers in this race if you prefer to call it a race. This means some finish the race earlier than the others. However, in this world, the difference is small happening in the limitation of blue.
Now, I want you to look at a different world.
A world with a big difference of individuals
This world has a wider range of colors. People with different abilities and characteristics. Different from the first world, this world has clearly some dominant paths of journeys among the different individuals. Most people like to follow these dominant paths to finish their races or journeys effectively to save their times, in other words, to stand out from the crowd. Because people living in this world are very different, thus, there surely exists the Standing-Out effect. Depending on whatever scientific areas, this standing-out effect is called slightly different in many Jargons. No worry that these scientific jargons are not important in this article.
I will continue Part II of nature to stand out showing individuals in the second world with more detailed description of their journeys.
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