Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
The longest continuously running weblog on the Internet Scripting News is Here. Forget Domani Let's forget about tomorrow, Let's forget about tomorrow, Let's forget about tomorrow for Tomorrow never comes! Domani -- forget domani, Let's live for now and anyhow Who needs domani? The moonlight -- let's share the moonlight, Perhaps together we will never be again. Ah, che luna -- oh, che mare With such a moon and such a sea, And you and me. I get so dizzy when you're standing near It's not the music that you hear, My heart is beating like a jungle drum.
Let's take the minutes as they speed away And hope it's true what people say: When you're in love to-morrow never comes. Let's forget about tomorrow, Let's forget about tomorrow, Let's forget about tomorrow for Tomorrow never comes!
Domani -- mahrone, domani! With such a moon and such a sea, And you and me. Let's take the minutes as they speed away And hope it's true what people say: When you're in love tomorrow never comes. It has been written from here in the past that announcements! It is incorrect to make announcements of Eid and Ramadhan by following Saudi for the sake of ease. Even if a fatwa has been obtained for this purpose, it is against the principles of Shariah.
There is a far greater distance between Britain and Saudi whereas Morocco is a lot closer to Britain. Thereafter considering the state of Saudi observations and the difficulties that are arising from them, which you have written and attention towards; no decision should be ever made blindly in accordance with the Saudi observations.
You should enforce with full strength the practice of following Morocco sightings. This is the closest to the truth. Hazrat Mau! The answer is correct and in accordance with the principles of Shariah. Bangla Wali Masjid. Last week, I read chapters 3 and 4 of the book. In these chapters, Dr. Douglas Hofstadter speaks of Figure-Ground and its prominence in formal systems. Douglas Hofstadter goes into great detail to explain Figure and Ground could not only be identified in Escher and others' paintings but also in music and formal systems.
As an example of figure - ground, try this. But a few seconds of careful look would reveal a vase. The Figure and Ground are thus defined as negation of one another. More on figure and ground here. Now, if you take the square in which the whole diagram is present as the universe, then the vase forms the Figure while the faces form the ground.
In sketching and painting this is the general way figure and ground are defined. Douglas Hofstadter takes this concept a little further and tells us about how Bach used the same concept in The Musical Offering. Douglas Hofstadter then enters the formal systems domain and tries to explain how figure and ground could be established.
More on that later in the post. In one of the boring moments work, I started browsing through the text of Sri Rudram. As I started reading t! This was not the first time I was reading Chamakam. But somehow, I missed this point till today. For those who dont know what Sri Rudram is,. Srirudram, also known as Rudraprasna, is a hymn devoted to lord Shiva. In most of the poojas and homas it recited by the Vedic pundits.
Sri Rudram is in two parts. The first part, chapter 16 of the Yajurveda, is known as Namakam because of the repeated use of the word "Na! The second part, chapter 18 of the Yajurveda, is known as chamakam because of the repeated use of the words "Chame". Rudram is divided into 11 sections called Anuvakas. Having been pacified, Rudra is requested to destroy the sins of those for whom it is being chanted. Apart from being a hymn devoted Lord Shiva, Srirudram also contains may hidden secrets in coded format.
For example the verses contain coded instructions for preparing various ayurvedic medicines. In the eleventh Anuvaka of Chamakam, a series of numbers are chanted. It goes like this. Let me be granted the uneven number one, three, five, seven, Nine, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, Nineteen, twenty one, twenty three, twenty five, twenty seven, twenty Nine, and thirty one, thirty three, and even numbers four, eight, twelve, and sixteen, twenty, and twenty four, twenty eight, thirty two thirty six, and forty and forty four, forty eight to ensure food and its production, its continuity, and the urge to enjoy, the origin of all productions, the sun, the heaven, the head of all, the infinite, the all pervading like the sky, time and the like present at the end of total consummation exists at the end of it on the earth!
Lets for a moment concentrate on the numbers missing in the two series'. The missing numbers! I go till 34 only are. You get back the odd numbers. Now I dont know and cant see why the first series is quoted til 33 only where as second series is quoted till 44 numbers. This needs to be investigated.
But I am certain about one thing. With 2, 4 and series of odd numbers, you can define any number in the natural number system. How, you ask. This is how. He also explains us that it is even more interesting to construct Figure-Figures. He gives a variety of examples to explain this and finally comes to question "can theorems as well as non-theorems have a form? Well my understanding is that if you take this anuvaka as an example, it is certain that theorems and non-theorems can have form and that too a very clearly defined form, just as the case is here.
Make a note that X intersection Y is a null set here, which means X union Y covers the complete universe of natural numbers. This is the brilliance of this anuvaka.
With two different forms or Figures we h! A clear example of Figure-Figure definition of formal system of natural numbers. Unfortunately, Dr. Douglas Hofstadter doesnt discuss this anuvaka in GEB.
I dont blame him. Obviously, the translations, like the one quoted above, concentrate on Vedas as a part of ritual of offering sacrifices to Lord Shiva but miss the point that after all, Vedas describe the nature.
Numbers are as much part of nature as we are. This anuvaka is a clear example of how well Vedas define the nature. One may disagree with me and say that I am being partial to Vedic knowledge but one cant say that this piece of information had been embedded in the Vedas by coincidence.
It is there because it is supposed to be there. Many questions could be asked like. Answers to these questions could be found by investigating into the Vedas with an open mind. A crooked and one sided analysis of Vedas would leave us with sacrificial procedures and pagan gods and godesses, whereas an open ended discussion on Vedas would lead to knowledge hitherto untouched by Science. Just imagine how many secrets of nature could be pried open if.
The kind of knowledge represented in the Vedas n! If only, India after Independence took this with some pride and enthusiasm, mankind as a whole would have benefited from the study. Post Script: It occured to me, as I almost finished this post, that to define the numbers in this anuvaka the way they have been, one would need to multiply all natural numbers by 4 this is the definition of set of numbers represented by Y above.
GEB as had been explained here previously, is about self-reference in general, and specifically in formal systems. This anuvaka is a brilliant example of definition of self-referential formal system.
There you have. One more special case of Strange Loop. Can we say that this anuv! May be so. May be not. Only pure mathematicians can tell I guess. Update: Dr. How exactly this anuvaka in Chamakam correlates to Mitochondrial DNA is something which would be interesting to look.
Please post any interesting links or articles on this link in comments. Update: Thanks agai! Sasidharan for the link explaining how Chamakam descr! My favorite still is the 11th anuvaka which, as in his earlier comment Dr. Sasidharan wrote, is a representation of Mitochondrial DNA.
Heres the article. Colored Stone Shapes. Colored gemstones are cut into may varied geometric shapes. However, some of the other cuts have names not so indicative of the finished shape of the gem. These descriptions are what you would see if you were looking straight down at the top of a colored gemstone. Marquise Cut This is basically a two sided stone — kind of a football shaped gem. Emerald Cut Is an octagon shaped gem.
Is easiest to describe this shape as a rectangle with the four corners slightly cut off at a degree angle. This benefit of this rectangle with the corners nipped off is that the pointed degree corners on a rectangle are a weak area, and, especially with emeralds, are prone to breaking Cushion Cut If you were to take an emerald cut described above , and round off the four corners as well as cut a slight curve shape to the four longer sides, you would have a cushion cut.
This shape gets its name from the shape of an overstuffed pillow, or cushion you might find resting on a home sofa. A cushion cut gem that is about the same length and width is commonly referred to as an antique cushion cut. Trillion Cut This is a three sided gem, with all sided being equal in length.
This shape is often used as a pair of matching gems set to each side of a larger center stone. When a trillion is larger in size it is often used as a pendant stone, but this shape is an excellent choice for a designer ring. Cabochon Cut When any shape of a gem is just domed with a convex top and a flat bottom. The name comes from the Middle French word caboche meaning head.
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