Coming soon to a desktop near you: Your own digital Jesus. (Someone to hear your prayers. Someone who's there. As much as a collection of bits representing the image of a sheet can be there, I guess that is.)
Yeah I just wrote this post because upon reading the article I couldn't get that damn Depeche Mode song out of my head (or the Johnny Cash version.) Begone you fowl occupier of my neurons which could actually be doing some work!
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The Cry (or The Scream)
By Edvard Munch (1893)
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Many people think this painting depicts a man experiencing an existential crisis, but I disagree. I think it depicts a man whose computer just crashed and ate all his $#@%&@!! work!
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So, why math?
The short version of the answer is remarkably simple: math provides
a tool where you can, without ambiguity, prove that something is true or false.
I'll get back to that - but first, I'm going to make a quick diversion, to help you understand my basic viewpoint on things.
This…
Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
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Does this mean I can be healed through my laptop screen now?