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 Jessica Swift
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#15792497 - 02/11/12 11:36 AM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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This should be relaying some novel piece of information. Another distraction, composed of our desire to constantly skip from one thought to the next - you look for it here like an anxious monkey swinging from tree to tree.
It should turn at around this point, surely, to inform you of something. I should be swinging this game around and carving my text into a gift, or an inspiring puzzle that will guide you to the next branch. Maybe it won't even give you lift-off. I'd imagine most this doesn't, yet we still find shelter in hiding in these attempts to bleed more experience from another reading.
A block of text, a book, a poem, a story.
It's a buffet of paths that still wind back around to the beginning. Some quote here. Some interpretive analysis of another mystic here. [Insert] A skeptic and humble reply.
You're still following me?
This should be relaying some novel piece of information. Another distraction, composed of our desire to constantly skip from one thought to the next - you look for it here like an anxious monkey swinging from tree to tree.
It should turn at around this point, surely, to inform you of something. I should be swinging this game around and carving my text into a gift, or an inspiring puzzle that will guide you to the next branch. Maybe it won't even give you lift-off. I'd imagine most this doesn't, yet we still find shelter in hiding in these attempts to bleed more experience from another reading.
A block of text, a book, a poem, a story.
It's a buffet of paths that still wind back around to the beginning. Some quote here. Some interpretive analysis of another mystic here. [Insert] A skeptical and humble reply.
You're still following me?
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Where's the cool gif of a monkey swinging through trees at?
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Jessica Swift
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Stimuli saturation
Fill my synapses
Blind my eyes
Sing rhythms in my head
Buzz in my ears
Give me more.
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deCypher
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Here, this link on recursion may prove enlightening. 
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Jessica Swift
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Try a Google search for "recursion."
It comes back with, "did mean recursion?"
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White Beard
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haha no way.
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try a search for 'binary', you get 0b1010101110101001010100000000 results 
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Re: Recursion [Re: cbub]
#15795600 - 02/11/12 10:46 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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I get the sense that this will be pointed out
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Re: Recursion [Re: Kickle]
#15795617 - 02/11/12 10:48 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Kickle said:
I get the sense that this will be pointed out
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Kickle said:
I get the sense that this will be pointed out
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Kickle said:
I get the sense that this will be pointed out
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What's the difference between repetition and recursion?
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What's the difference between repetition and recursion?
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What's the difference between repetition and recursion?
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What's the difference between repetition and recursion?
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Re: Recursion [Re: cbub]
#15795665 - 02/11/12 11:00 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Quote:
cbub said:
What's the difference between repetition and recursion?
Consult here.
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Re: Recursion [Re: cbub]
#15795680 - 02/11/12 11:03 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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This is an example of repetition.
This is an example of recursion:
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cbub
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GNU stands for 'GNU is Not Unix'
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deCypher
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Here's some pretty cool recursion for y'all:
yo dawg, we heard you like life so we put the game of life within the game of life so you can live while you play the game of life while you play the game of life
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Re: Recursion [Re: cbub]
#15795703 - 02/11/12 11:12 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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What are the chances of guessing the correct answer to this question at random?
a.) 25%
b.) 50%
c.) 25%
d.) 0%
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Re: Recursion [Re: cbub]
#15795741 - 02/11/12 11:21 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Any perception of pattern is itself a pattern of perception, so all that can be known through knowing is the act of knowing the act of knowing.
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Quote:
Jessica Swift said:
Any perception of pattern is itself a pattern of perception, so all that can be known through knowing is the act of knowing the act of knowing.
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
--William James after inhaling N2O.
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Re: Recursion [Re: cbub]
#15795773 - 02/11/12 11:28 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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A common function needed everywhere in modern computing is finding the length of a given string. Commonly this is implemented using a recursive function. e.g.
// C Language code
int length(char* str){
if(str == NULL){
return 0;
} else {
return length(str, 0);
}
}
The function is considered recursive because it calls itself. While clever, pass this function too long of a string, and you can end up with a stack-overflow error, as it will eat up the active frames (ram/cache) with calls to itself.
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Jessica Swift
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Quote:
deCypher said:
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
--William James after inhaling N2O.
N2O makes me feel like I'm on the edge of truth, and then ejected from the pilot's seat. "Do not pass go, do not collect $200."
I hope William's lips were blue and his eyes were glazed over, with just the tiniest bit of white spittle forming at the edge of his mouth.
No one ever said enlightenment was a beautiful site to behold.
I actually met this saddhu. He was in Pushkar, Rajasthan. I found him meditating in the market, sitting atop some concrete platform with a little roof on it. Incense was burning and he was covered in ash. I walked up close just to observe him. Within a minute, he opened his eyes and stared at me. I expected some interesting encounter, but all he did was ask me for a cigarette in perfect English.
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cbub
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Haha, that's gold, think he just took the english out of your head?
*on topic, is it time yet to start talking about Mandelbrot?
zn+1 = zn2 + c
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Re: Recursion [Re: cbub]
#15795904 - 02/12/12 12:25 AM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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I read this book, titled "Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science" but it contained more mathematics than theoretical discussion. As I'm more verbally inclined (i.e. dependent) towards linguistic abstracts, I wasn't able to connect with the math. It's funny you mention Mandelbrots though, because I read that book whenever I was in Rajasthan.
I really liked McKenna's socio-cultural interpretation of fractals. He extrapolated fractals in nature, such as the pattern of leaf growth, the structure of a snail, etc. and applied it to human development; arguing that individual peak experiences such as orgasms and altered states were indication that a greater denouement, or crescendo of sorts, was awaiting us on a larger scale.
Whether or not his analysis is accurate, the perception of "self-similarity across scale" is true not just of witnessing the human mind in mathematics (itself being both an invention of the mind and the mechanism of nature - testimony to the 'as above so below' spiel), but also witnessing ourselves in the water, in the ground, in the face of someone else. Outside and inside, it's all part of the same ride.
Hofmann's Potion, the documentary about the modern psychedelic founders, focused heavily on the ability that LSD has to make external events seem internally oriented. It's this effect among others that makes it so frightening for some people.
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Yeah, It's very interesting. I mention it because it's recursive. The result gets fed back into the formula and you get most complex patterns that seem to have endless amount of varieties, but the characteristics repeat again and again on different scales. This is closest thing to the world we see around us and it's just as simple as e = mc2
you're invited to watch 'The colours of infinity' docu on this topic.
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Thank you
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