cover me in ashes
samedi
Brainstumpers
I got a idea for a genius-level timewasting device - Sudoku + Rubik's cube = Sudokube, right?
Seems like some turd already made the leap of disbelief and patented this idea.
On hindsight - it seems this puzzle is even easier to solve than the original rubik's cube. You get more solution hints from the 9 numbers than from 6 colors alone, and if all else fails the alignment of the numbers helps you literally which way is up.
And if all that still doesn't help you, the non-tessellating black background means that you can simply solve the puzzle by aligning all that kanji. Talk about selling out.
I decided to up the complexity level a little - the GOSUdoKUBE.
It'll hit production soon as I figure out how to cantilever 729 moving parts into a coherent mesh that will resist attempts to bash your skull against it.
I got a idea for a genius-level timewasting device - Sudoku + Rubik's cube = Sudokube, right?
Seems like some turd already made the leap of disbelief and patented this idea.
On hindsight - it seems this puzzle is even easier to solve than the original rubik's cube. You get more solution hints from the 9 numbers than from 6 colors alone, and if all else fails the alignment of the numbers helps you literally which way is up.
And if all that still doesn't help you, the non-tessellating black background means that you can simply solve the puzzle by aligning all that kanji. Talk about selling out.
I decided to up the complexity level a little - the GOSUdoKUBE.
It'll hit production soon as I figure out how to cantilever 729 moving parts into a coherent mesh that will resist attempts to bash your skull against it.
posted by anodyne @ 30.6.07
dimanche
The Joy of Teaching
(In support of Alfian Sa'at)
(In support of Alfian Sa'at)
posted by anodyne @ 24.6.07
mardi
Intelligent Design is anything but
Evolutionists and Intelligent-designers do agree on several things - that organisms are constantly morphing into new organisms, and that genomic change is the main engine of speciation.
What they disagree upon is on the exact mechanism of genomic change - evolutionary theory believes that genetic mutations are truly random, while creationists believe that these mutations are purposeful, with the intent of conferring survival advantages. Herein lies the deadlock - how does one know, for example, whether a mutation that gives fruitflies color vision is "purposeful" or "random"? Intelligent design and evolution are both non-falsifiable theories - when faced with a million monkeys bashing on a 4-letter keyboard ("A C G T") coming up with the complete human genome, is this "purposeful" or pure random chance?
Random genetic change confers both good and bad survival edges, while intelligent design only allows genetic change which is beneficial. Essentially the equation is:
Random Evolutionary Change = Intelligent Design (ID) + Pretty Stupid Design (PSD)
Now in the course of my medical career, I've seen some Pretty Stupid Designs. A leaky pump is a pretty dumb design, and I've seen enough hole-in-the-heart syndromes to know that sometimes, just sometimes, our Designer was looking the other way, or maybe He was surfing Youtube when he ought to be busting His ass on our blueprints.
Another Pretty Stupid Design is achondroplasia. Our Supreme Engineer hits a base pair in chromosome 4, resulting in a Creation that is stunted because of inappropriate cartilage and skeletal growth, facing a lifetime of respiratory and spinal cord problems. Hardly the kind of ubermensch material our Designer is used to turning out.
My last example is cancer. Now it is hideously difficult to get cancer - one needs to accumulate mutations in seven different genes before a tumor is even visible on the most sophisticated radiological scans (this is partly why young people don't get cancer; you have to live long enough before you collect all seven mutations). Yet cancer is diagnosed in 20 million patients every year, and is responsible for 25% of deaths in the developed world. As far as Designs go, a biological time bomb is a Pretty Stupid Design element to include in something hyped as the acme and pinnacle of All Creation. I don't know about you, but if I were dying of cancer, I'd prefer it because I was unlucky for seven straight times - when the alternative is a malevolent Intelligent Genetic Engineer who spends his lab time knocking off my c-myc, FAP, Ras, p53, pRB et al genes.
To conclude, well, yes it IS a pretty unlikely feat that the "irreducible complexity" of the eye was formed by random chance mutations in the retina, the lens mechanism and the pupillary aperture. I'd like to add that it is pretty unlikely too that your typical perfectly healthy human walks the earth for seventy years and accumulates enough random mutations to give him cancer. Well, SHIT HAPPENS. We know now that cancer too has "irreducible complexity", and any single mutation in the absence of others will not result in the life-draining disease we've come to know and love. There are far too many Pretty Stupid Designs floating around in my medical wards to allow me to listen to an Intelligent Designer with a straight face. From one who has seen the dark side of the genetic lottery that is human reproduction, it's hard to believe that our genetic and evolutionary future is guided by anything other than the Million Monkey Typewriting Brigade.
Evolutionists and Intelligent-designers do agree on several things - that organisms are constantly morphing into new organisms, and that genomic change is the main engine of speciation.
What they disagree upon is on the exact mechanism of genomic change - evolutionary theory believes that genetic mutations are truly random, while creationists believe that these mutations are purposeful, with the intent of conferring survival advantages. Herein lies the deadlock - how does one know, for example, whether a mutation that gives fruitflies color vision is "purposeful" or "random"? Intelligent design and evolution are both non-falsifiable theories - when faced with a million monkeys bashing on a 4-letter keyboard ("A C G T") coming up with the complete human genome, is this "purposeful" or pure random chance?
Random genetic change confers both good and bad survival edges, while intelligent design only allows genetic change which is beneficial. Essentially the equation is:
Random Evolutionary Change = Intelligent Design (ID) + Pretty Stupid Design (PSD)
Now in the course of my medical career, I've seen some Pretty Stupid Designs. A leaky pump is a pretty dumb design, and I've seen enough hole-in-the-heart syndromes to know that sometimes, just sometimes, our Designer was looking the other way, or maybe He was surfing Youtube when he ought to be busting His ass on our blueprints.
Another Pretty Stupid Design is achondroplasia. Our Supreme Engineer hits a base pair in chromosome 4, resulting in a Creation that is stunted because of inappropriate cartilage and skeletal growth, facing a lifetime of respiratory and spinal cord problems. Hardly the kind of ubermensch material our Designer is used to turning out.
My last example is cancer. Now it is hideously difficult to get cancer - one needs to accumulate mutations in seven different genes before a tumor is even visible on the most sophisticated radiological scans (this is partly why young people don't get cancer; you have to live long enough before you collect all seven mutations). Yet cancer is diagnosed in 20 million patients every year, and is responsible for 25% of deaths in the developed world. As far as Designs go, a biological time bomb is a Pretty Stupid Design element to include in something hyped as the acme and pinnacle of All Creation. I don't know about you, but if I were dying of cancer, I'd prefer it because I was unlucky for seven straight times - when the alternative is a malevolent Intelligent Genetic Engineer who spends his lab time knocking off my c-myc, FAP, Ras, p53, pRB et al genes.
To conclude, well, yes it IS a pretty unlikely feat that the "irreducible complexity" of the eye was formed by random chance mutations in the retina, the lens mechanism and the pupillary aperture. I'd like to add that it is pretty unlikely too that your typical perfectly healthy human walks the earth for seventy years and accumulates enough random mutations to give him cancer. Well, SHIT HAPPENS. We know now that cancer too has "irreducible complexity", and any single mutation in the absence of others will not result in the life-draining disease we've come to know and love. There are far too many Pretty Stupid Designs floating around in my medical wards to allow me to listen to an Intelligent Designer with a straight face. From one who has seen the dark side of the genetic lottery that is human reproduction, it's hard to believe that our genetic and evolutionary future is guided by anything other than the Million Monkey Typewriting Brigade.
posted by anodyne @ 19.6.07
lundi
posted by ncmhp @ 11.6.07
AAAs on all the DDR 10 footers up to 8th mix on Stepmania (keyboard, C500 so I don't have irritating slowdowns to worry about).
(No PSMH here; just showed the PSMO picture).
For Supernova, I don't have AAAs on FELMO, FAXX-H, and FAXX-O (Chaos was C500, so that's kind of cheating, but well...). It looks like I'll never get FELMO, as there's one part I can NEVER even FC. Oh, and here''s are some quad As just for fun.
(No PSMH here; just showed the PSMO picture).
For Supernova, I don't have AAAs on FELMO, FAXX-H, and FAXX-O (Chaos was C500, so that's kind of cheating, but well...). It looks like I'll never get FELMO, as there's one part I can NEVER even FC. Oh, and here''s are some quad As just for fun.
posted by ncmhp @ 11.6.07
jeudi
Why screw around with DDR?
presenting... DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION
(guess what happens when you don't get a triple A?)
presenting... DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION
(guess what happens when you don't get a triple A?)
posted by anodyne @ 7.6.07
mardi
posted by ncmhp @ 5.6.07
vendredi
Quasar AAA on Stepmania (C500)
posted by ncmhp @ 1.6.07
