29 SEP 2013 by ideonexus
The World is a Function
Kakeru Seki: A fact is somehow related to another fact. Unless you understand these relationships, you won't be a real reporter.
Noriko Hikima: True journalism!
Kakeru Seki: Well, you majored in the humanities.
Noriko Hikima: Yes! That's true--I've studied literature since I was in high school.
Kakeru Seki: You havea lot of catching up to do, then. Let's begin with functions.
Noriko Hikima: Fu...functions? Math? What?
Kakeru Seki: When one thing changes, it influences another thing. A ... 1 
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notesAs a programmer I know that algorithms can relate to the real world, and since these algorithms are constructed in computers that ultimately run on bits and boolean logic, then the real world may be imagined to deconstruct to pure mathematics.
20 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
An Experiment With a Tadpole's Development
An early classic experiment by the Nobel Prize-winning embryologist Roger Sperry
illustrates the principle perfectly. Sperry and a colleague took a tadpole and removed a tiny square
of skin from the back. They removed another square, the same size, from the belly. They then
regrafted the two squares, but each in the other's place: the belly skin was grafted on the back, and
the back skin on the belly. When the tadpole grew up into a frog, the result was rather pretty, as
experiments in embryo...Folksonomies: biology experiments
Folksonomies: biology experiments
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notesTaking a piece of skin from the belly and switching it with a piece from the back caused the frog to scratch its belly when you tickle its back.
