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Paul Fuller wrote:
>> If this doesn't make you laugh, you fail. :-P
>
> After some brushing up - Ah I see, 'thus achieving an Erdos number of 1'.
>
> Laughs. Thus avoiding failure in the eyes of Invisible.
Note also the alt-text, with its invocation of the Bacon Number. ;-)
Now go purchase/borrow this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linked-Everything-Connected-Business-Everyday/dp/0452284392
I guarantee an interesting and entertaining read. ;-) (For instance: how
is the OS market like a Bose-Einstien condensate?)
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Invisible wrote:
> Paul Fuller wrote:
>
>>> If this doesn't make you laugh, you fail. :-P
>>
>> After some brushing up - Ah I see, 'thus achieving an Erdos number of 1'.
>>
>> Laughs. Thus avoiding failure in the eyes of Invisible.
>
> Note also the alt-text, with its invocation of the Bacon Number. ;-)
>
> Now go purchase/borrow this:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linked-Everything-Connected-Business-Everyday/dp/0452284392
>
>
> I guarantee an interesting and entertaining read. ;-) (For instance: how
> is the OS market like a Bose-Einstien condensate?)
All of the energetic particles (ideas) escape thus lowering the average
temperature... until the remainder all share the lowest quantum energy
level and condense ... into Windows 8 ?
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>> how is the OS market like a Bose-Einstien condensate?
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> All of the energetic particles (ideas) escape thus lowering the average
> temperature... until the remainder all share the lowest quantum energy
> level and condense ... into Windows 8 ?
LMAO!
Actually it has something to do with network theory and quantum
numbers... but your explanation sounds far more amusing.
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Now go purchase/borrow this:
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linked-Everything-Connected-Business-Everyday/dp/0452284392
Or you could read something lighter, like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos-Bacon_number
Did you know that Natalie Portman (one of the protagonists of the Star Wars
prequel trilogy) has an Erdos-Bacon number of 6?
--
- Warp
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>> Now go purchase/borrow this:
>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linked-Everything-Connected-Business-Everyday/dp/0452284392
>
> Or you could read something lighter, like this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos-Bacon_number
I still think the book is more interesting. ;-)
> Did you know that Natalie Portman (one of the protagonists of the Star Wars
> prequel trilogy) has an Erdos-Bacon number of 6?
I'm sure she's been in some quality films as well. (Although currently,
I can only think of V for Vendetta...)
PS. Can anybody verify this factiod? Or is it just another piece of
Wikipedia trivia of dubious veracity?
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > Did you know that Natalie Portman (one of the protagonists of the Star Wars
> > prequel trilogy) has an Erdos-Bacon number of 6?
>
> I'm sure she's been in some quality films as well. (Although currently,
> I can only think of V for Vendetta...)
When quoting Portman's 'hi-quality' filmography, one need go no further than her
early role as Mathilda in Luc Besson's masterpiece Leon (The Professional in the
US, I believe)...
PS that wiki article is one of the best I've read in a long time - I had no idea
this concept even existed! :-)
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> PS that wiki article is one of the best I've read in a long time - I had no idea
> this concept even existed! :-)
I had that several times over reading the book. ;-)
PS. I do not get commission from the sales of this book. Just in case
anybody was wondering...
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Paul Fuller wrote:
> All of the energetic particles (ideas) escape thus lowering the average
> temperature... until the remainder all share the lowest quantum energy
> level and condense ... into Windows 8 ?
I must admit, this has me laughing out loud.
Altho I will say Singularity is pretty cool.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:02:34 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Did you know that Natalie Portman (one of the protagonists of the
>> Star Wars prequel trilogy) has an Erdos-Bacon number of 6?
>
> I'm sure she's been in some quality films as well. (Although currently,
> I can only think of V for Vendetta...)
>
> PS. Can anybody verify this factiod? Or is it just another piece of
> Wikipedia trivia of dubious veracity?
IMDB confirms that her birth-name is Natalie Hershlag.
(N. Hershlag)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/nimg.2002.1170
(A. A. Baird)
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/0898929053467569
(M. S. Gazzaniga)
http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jdvicto/vimash89.html
(J. D. Victor)
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=SJMAAH000013000005000879000001
(J. Gillis)
http://jlms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/s1-12/47/185
(P. Erdős)
I am sure you can trace the Bacon part yourself.
--
FE
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:58:44 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> http://www.xkcd.com/599/
>
> If this doesn't make you laugh, you fail. :-P
It took a few minutes of research to see why it was funny, but once I
understood, I nearly fell out of my chair....
Jim
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