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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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If you know this face, please post the name below.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2012 : 21:36:18 [Permalink]
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/05/2012 : 22:18:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Stephen J. Gould.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2012 : 22:24:07 [Permalink]
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| Hint: In one of his works, this "face" demonstrated a sort of special affinity with three people. One of them was (among other things) a mathematician. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2012 : 06:03:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint: In one of his works, this "face" demonstrated a sort of special affinity with three people. One of them was (among other things) a mathematician.
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Hint: Another of the "three people" mentioned in that last hint was a graphic artist. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2012 : 08:35:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Hint: In one of his works, this "face" demonstrated a sort of special affinity with three people. One of them was (among other things) a mathematician.
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Hint: Another of the "three people" mentioned in that last hint was a graphic artist.
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Hint: The third person was a classical music composer. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 04/06/2012 : 10:17:06 [Permalink]
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/06/2012 : 11:08:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Douglas R. Hofstadter
That one was tough!
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You are correct, Kil! I finally found someone you hadn't been photographed with! Yes, Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote the marvelous book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (named for the three persons mentioned in my hints). Years after reading G.E.B., I happened to be making an attempt at writing a heuristic computer program (one capable of learning). I was writing in BASIC, and I was stumped. I suddenly realized that the programming language I was using would not allow recursion (one of Hofstadter's topics in G.E.B.). I ran out and upgraded to a version of BASIC that would allow recursion. Without that concept from Douglas Hofstadter, I'd still be hacking away at that program.
Then a couple-three years ago, I was at Stanford to listen to Daniel Dennett. I was in the front row, and got to talking with a guy in the next seat. I asked him his opinion of when the "Technological Singularity" might come about. (This is a notion that Ray Kurzweil promotes.) The fellow sort of winced and told me it's most likely there'd be no such thing.
Only months later did I realize that I'd been chatting with Douglas Hofstadter.
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