I'm starting the think religion is a major threat to our freedom in the UK. We no longer have free speech to criticize someone the grounds of their religions beliefs. To say someone is wrong for believing these dangerous superstitions which, (considering Al-qaeda...) is the source of terrorism and current fear, is religious intolerance and a 'hate crime'.
Obviously the government is ignorant of the real problem - that people still possess these ignorant and fatal beliefs. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism et al should hence be boycotted. I need to start printing leaflets and campaigning against the missionary scum who spread their lies, starting with the alpha course who attempt to corrupt students at Aberdeen university.
18 March 2010
2 March 2010
dead server
My server is dead; my hosts, linuxvps.org are no more!
Someone tracked me down on facebook to ask about the Kolmogorov programming language; which surprised me!
Someone tracked me down on facebook to ask about the Kolmogorov programming language; which surprised me!
10 February 2010
A nice asynchronous bit of coms
In letterscore/createWords I realized that the text input was being laggy: this is because javascript is single threaded and must wait while the synchronous message was being sent.
Here is my solution:
The client and server both start out with
communications_number = 0
The client sends the request asynchronously to the server, along with its current communications_number
When the server receives a request, it checks the communications number.
If this number is equal to the current number, then the server increments its communications_number.
Otherwise, it does not.
Then the server sends the response back with its current communication_number.
When the client gets the server's communication_number, it checks whether or not this number is greater than its current communication_number.
If it isn't greater, then this is an old packet and we skipped a couple of numbers; we have already processed a newer packet!
If it is greater, then its a new packet, and so we set our communication_number = the server's communication_number.
In this way the client can arrange the old and new data appropriately; it is easy to see how when you know the ordering of things, quite apart from when you actual received them, that you can reconstruct them into an ordered set.
Or in other words, we can have sequential behaviour without having to wait for sequential computations to finish!
I think I might wrap this behaviour up in a javascript prototype object!
Here is my solution:
The client and server both start out with
communications_number = 0
The client sends the request asynchronously to the server, along with its current communications_number
When the server receives a request, it checks the communications number.
If this number is equal to the current number, then the server increments its communications_number.
Otherwise, it does not.
Then the server sends the response back with its current communication_number.
When the client gets the server's communication_number, it checks whether or not this number is greater than its current communication_number.
If it isn't greater, then this is an old packet and we skipped a couple of numbers; we have already processed a newer packet!
If it is greater, then its a new packet, and so we set our communication_number = the server's communication_number.
In this way the client can arrange the old and new data appropriately; it is easy to see how when you know the ordering of things, quite apart from when you actual received them, that you can reconstruct them into an ordered set.
Or in other words, we can have sequential behaviour without having to wait for sequential computations to finish!
I think I might wrap this behaviour up in a javascript prototype object!
9 February 2010
Letterscore!
Letterscore is a new super fun web game by me!
Check it out at letterscore.co.uk!
You play against another human player from somewhere on the Internet. First you choose ten letters; each letter is randomly determined but you decide whether or not it is a vowel or a consonant.
Then you make a word.
Then the game tells you whose word is longer, or whose word is not a word!
The objective is to climb the league.
It's lots of fun; and has everyone giggling.
(And is kinda like the television program countdown)
Check it out at letterscore.co.uk!
You play against another human player from somewhere on the Internet. First you choose ten letters; each letter is randomly determined but you decide whether or not it is a vowel or a consonant.
Then you make a word.
Then the game tells you whose word is longer, or whose word is not a word!
The objective is to climb the league.
It's lots of fun; and has everyone giggling.
(And is kinda like the television program countdown)
26 January 2010
transcendental argument for the existence of god
The transcendental argument for the existence of god claims that there are logical absolutes, a product of the mind, which are separate from the physical world.
If the universe were to end, would the logical value True still be True?
Now I'm going to get academic and ask: what the fuck are you on about? What sort of processes do you imagine will occur when the universe ends? Maybe it'll fucking be false! Stop bollocksing on about irrelevant shit.
When these people talk about True being True, you see it as somehow different from an Alcoholic living in Elgin.
Ok so maybe you see them both as holy things, but what fucking god do I need to tell me this stuff? Do I need to have a god to invent these things before I discover them? Did god need to say there was an alcoholic in Elgin, as well as saying that True is True, prior to their discovery?
Why, oh why oh why do we need a god to be responsible for creating these dull, boring facts for us?
Ahhh, their argument is deeply flawed, boring and useless. And the last two are worse than the first.
If the universe were to end, would the logical value True still be True?
Now I'm going to get academic and ask: what the fuck are you on about? What sort of processes do you imagine will occur when the universe ends? Maybe it'll fucking be false! Stop bollocksing on about irrelevant shit.
When these people talk about True being True, you see it as somehow different from an Alcoholic living in Elgin.
Ok so maybe you see them both as holy things, but what fucking god do I need to tell me this stuff? Do I need to have a god to invent these things before I discover them? Did god need to say there was an alcoholic in Elgin, as well as saying that True is True, prior to their discovery?
Why, oh why oh why do we need a god to be responsible for creating these dull, boring facts for us?
Ahhh, their argument is deeply flawed, boring and useless. And the last two are worse than the first.
21 January 2010
approach anxiety lolz
Maybe it's because I hate women, or, maybe 'cus I hate men. Perhaps it's because I hate everyone. You disgust me, you pathetic worms. But for some reason I find this blog, an inspirational guide for meeting women extremely funny.
Here's a memorable quote:
"Based on that, I could ask myself what does the fact that she likes yoga say about her as a person?... She likes to feel good physically. (I like this because it could be sexual)"
But what's interesting is that he sells coaching and workshops so people can learn to speak to women at random in public. I really don't need to comment on why this is funny, surely. Here's a testament to his business, from the horse's mouth:
"Now he can progress where it’s most important. He can get out every day and meet new women. Everything else is secondary."
Maybe it's because he learned from the best; from "Cory Sky (the guy who picks up women with eye contact alone)"
Now some of you may think I'm not taking his business very seriously; but not Mr Disco; who works hard at his game: "Wow, I don’t feel like doing this. I feel like staying in. But I head out to meet women anyway."
Perhaps the real reason I find this funny is because well, it just seems one step off flashing your cock at people in public; but all you're doing is approaching them and asking them out. But why do I feel that way?
It's another thing I blame the strict church in this part of the world for; all the kids gathered at School praising the Lord. And now I'm an athiest, I still can't get a boner for anyone... so worried I am that they're going to rob or kill me, or worse, I to do that to them.
Then again, maybe it's because the only time I really tried doing that sort of thing was in Aberdeen pubs, where all the women actually do carry chainsaws and bibles.
Here's a memorable quote:
"Based on that, I could ask myself what does the fact that she likes yoga say about her as a person?... She likes to feel good physically. (I like this because it could be sexual)"
But what's interesting is that he sells coaching and workshops so people can learn to speak to women at random in public. I really don't need to comment on why this is funny, surely. Here's a testament to his business, from the horse's mouth:
"Now he can progress where it’s most important. He can get out every day and meet new women. Everything else is secondary."
Maybe it's because he learned from the best; from "Cory Sky (the guy who picks up women with eye contact alone)"
Now some of you may think I'm not taking his business very seriously; but not Mr Disco; who works hard at his game: "Wow, I don’t feel like doing this. I feel like staying in. But I head out to meet women anyway."
Perhaps the real reason I find this funny is because well, it just seems one step off flashing your cock at people in public; but all you're doing is approaching them and asking them out. But why do I feel that way?
It's another thing I blame the strict church in this part of the world for; all the kids gathered at School praising the Lord. And now I'm an athiest, I still can't get a boner for anyone... so worried I am that they're going to rob or kill me, or worse, I to do that to them.
Then again, maybe it's because the only time I really tried doing that sort of thing was in Aberdeen pubs, where all the women actually do carry chainsaws and bibles.
16 January 2010
reading philosophy in the pub
I have refreshed myself in the company of people from Elgin. Three things happened:
A lady (who was be-boyfriended) came and sat next to me, so I gave her a look until she went away.
Also I read Nietzsche in the pub, and decided that the same argument that Nietzsche uses against the logical approach used by Spinoza in his 'Ethics' is well applicable to Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness' - the rub being that it is not merely his theory of man, but a vehicle by which Sartre pushes his own emotional agenda, one of insecurity, one where a man requires a large ontology - a false model by which one can understand or misunderstand reality - to give us what a child knows - that people walk, do and be! When the truth is stripped away like I have done here then what benefit does his philosophy give to us?!
(tbh I quite it like, I think it's a good read)
Thirdly, some idiot children attempted to board the bus in hopeman, and were turned away because one had an opened crate of beer, another asked the bus driver for blow-job while holding a pint in a glass, while a third and fourth smoked cigarettes on the bus.
Would that I was quicker freeing some mobile phone memory, I would have captured it in video format. Alas.
A lady (who was be-boyfriended) came and sat next to me, so I gave her a look until she went away.
Also I read Nietzsche in the pub, and decided that the same argument that Nietzsche uses against the logical approach used by Spinoza in his 'Ethics' is well applicable to Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness' - the rub being that it is not merely his theory of man, but a vehicle by which Sartre pushes his own emotional agenda, one of insecurity, one where a man requires a large ontology - a false model by which one can understand or misunderstand reality - to give us what a child knows - that people walk, do and be! When the truth is stripped away like I have done here then what benefit does his philosophy give to us?!
(tbh I quite it like, I think it's a good read)
Thirdly, some idiot children attempted to board the bus in hopeman, and were turned away because one had an opened crate of beer, another asked the bus driver for blow-job while holding a pint in a glass, while a third and fourth smoked cigarettes on the bus.
Would that I was quicker freeing some mobile phone memory, I would have captured it in video format. Alas.
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