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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: bad math
I'm trying to get back into my routine, after being really devastated by losing my dog. To people who don't love dogs, it probably seems silly to be so upset over an animal, but he was really a member...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:22 PM • 122 Comments •
Category: numerology
There's one kind of semi-mathematical crackpottery that people frequently send to me, but which i generally don't write about. Given my background, I call it gematria - but it covers a much wider range than what's really technically meant...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:33 PM • 56 Comments •
Category: numerology
Time for our second visit with old friends. This time, we're going to check up on "The Lords Witnesses", the bible code geniuses who made somewhere around a dozen attempts at using their code to nail down a date...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:33 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: numerology
Remember back in the end of june, when I talked about these insane bozos who were predicting that a nuclear bomb would be blown up in the UN plaza? And they were on their fourth prediction about when this would...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:06 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: numerology
About 10 days ago, I wrote a post about a group of bozos who believe they've found a secret code in the bible, and that according to them, there was going to be a nuclear attack on the UN building...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:49 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: numerology
Earlier this week, I posted a brief article about the "True Bible Code" folks who claimed that NYC was going to be hit by a terrorist nuclear weapon this weekend. I was looking at the rest of their site to...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:40 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: numerology
I just received some email that would seriously worry me if it weren't for the fact that I'm not an idiot. WARNING! TERRORISTS are going to ATTACK NEW YORK! There is NO TIME to waste! Go read http://www.truebiblecode.com/nyc.html!!!!!! Going there,...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 6:30 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: numerology
I was glancing at the comments on the post that I linked to about "0.999...=1". And one of them was such a wonderful example of crap numerology, which I enjoy laughing at, that I just had to repost it here:...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:56 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: numerology
As readers of GM/BM at the old site know, one of the things that I love to shred is trashy numerology. I also have a great dislike for the tendency of many modern pseudo-researchers to insist that ancient people were...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:10 PM • 15 Comments •
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
James Hrynyshyn 11.20.2009
Tim Lambert 11.18.2009
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Orac 11.20.2009
