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EPIC INDEED!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Brazil blame spoilsport opponents for poor display - Brazil complains. Sad.
Brazil are blaming North Korean "spoilsport" tactics for their dismal opening World Cup performance but have promised to do better next time -- if future opponents are more obliging.
Coach Dunga and his players said that North Korea's massed defence simply made life too difficult for the five-times world champions on Tuesday, who are more comfortable facing teams who open up and attack.
"It was a very complicated match because they closed down the spaces," said striker Luis Fabiano after Brazil struggled to a 2-1 win over the lowest-ranked side at the World Cup at 105.
"It was difficult for the forwards because there was a sea of Korean players and the ball just didn't reach the front," added the so-called Fabulous One after completing his sixth international without a goal.
COUNTER-ATTACK
Goalkeeper Julio Cesar also complained of the inconvenience caused by the opposition.
"It's boring to play against a team like that because you have to attack all the time," he said. "North Korea were trying to play on the counter-attack."
Felipe Melo said that North Korea played with "two lines of five" and Michel Bastos agreed that it was just not cricket.
"It's not easy to play against a team which just plays in defence. It makes things really difficult for us," he said.
In central defender Juan's opinion, it was all typical of modern football.
"That's football today," he said. "A national team without any sort of tradition at the top level, but who mark well and just worry about defending."
Dunga, who has turned Brazil into a team which depends on counter-attacks and set pieces for goals, agreed with his players.
"When you meet a team who play attacking football, it allows you to create space," he said.
"When you play opponents who close ranks, you have to speed up the game, you misplace passes, you have to be persistent, so it's not easy to play against that sort of team."
Dunga's Brazil have thrived against teams who have taken the initiative, especially in the World Cup qualifiers when they won 3-0 in Chile, 4-0 in Uruguay and Venezuela and 3-1 in Argentina.
But they were held to 0-0 draws at home to Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela after their opponents refused to play ball and instead packed their defence.
Many deplore the way in which Brazil have changed their style but Dunga has poured scorn on the critics, saying a more pragmatic approach has proved successful.
Are they actually complaining?!?!?! Sad.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Gödel’s Incompleteness: The #1 Mathematical Breakthrough of the 20th Century
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem says:
“Anything you can draw a circle around cannot explain itself without referring to something outside the circle - something you have to assume but cannot prove.”
You can draw a circle around all of the concepts in your high school geometry book. But they’re all built on Euclid’s 5 postulates which we know are true but cannot be proven. Those 5 postulates are outside the book, outside the circle.
Stated in Formal Language:
Gödel’s theorem says: “Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory.”
The Church-Turing thesis says that a physical system can express elementary arithmetic just as a human can, and that the arithmetic of a Turing Machine (computer) is not provable within the system and is likewise subject to incompleteness.
Any physical system subjected to measurement is capable of expressing elementary arithmetic. (In other words, children can do math by counting their fingers, water flowing into a bucket does integration, and physical systems always give the right answer.)
Therefore the universe is capable of expressing elementary arithmetic and like both mathematics itself and a Turing machine, is incomplete.
You can draw a circle around a bicycle. But the existence of that bicycle relies on a factory that is outside that circle. The bicycle cannot explain itself.
You can draw the circle around a bicycle factory. But that factory likewise relies on other things outside the factory.
Gödel proved that there are ALWAYS more things that are true than you can prove. Any system of logic or numbers that mathematicians ever came up with will always rest on at least a few unprovable assumptions.
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem applies not just to math, but to everything that is subject to the laws of logic. Everything that you can count or calculate. Incompleteness is true in math; it’s equally true in science or language and philosophy.
By far, the best "explanation in layman's terms" I've come across yet!
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Mumbai's rail fatalities tops Bhopal gas disaster-Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times
The Times, the British newspaper, used the RTI to get a break-up of Mumbai fatalities. In 2008, 3,443 out of 4,357 fatalities occurred when trains mowed down people crossing the tracks. As many as 853 fell off or were thrown off moving trains. Another 41 were hit by trackside poles while hanging out of doors, and 21 were electrocuted by overhead wires while travelling on the roof.Cynics will say this is different from Bhopal: those crossing the tracks and riding on roofs were breaking safety regulations and exposing themselves to danger. But in Bhopal too, the Union Carbide plant was located outside the town, and illegal shanty-towns came up around it, violating safety and urban laws. Does that lessen criticism of the gas leak?
Union Carbide was lambasted for not using the best technology available to avert risks and deaths. But do we castigate the railways for not investing in the best safety technologies, and creating barriers to stop people from crossing the tracks? Union Carbide was slated for negligence in a shutdown plant. But the railways continue to be negligent year after year in a running organization that runs down people.
I'm not sure how much I agree with the comparisons used between the rails and the Bhopal tragedy here. There's a lot more than just the using the best technology and regulations, most importantly - the peoples' willingness to do the harmful.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
#GoodNightJoke A Genie in The Pocket - Sarbjit's Fun Collection
#GoodNightJoke A Genie in The Pocket
Two friends were in a bar drinking a beer when one pulled out a cigar but he didn't have a lighter so he asked his friend if he had one.. "I sure do,"" he replied and reached into his pocket and pulled out a 10 inch Bic lighter. ""Wow! "" said his friend, ""where did you get that monster. ""
""I got it from my genie. ""
""You have a genie? "" he asked. ""Yes, he's right here in my pocket. ""
""Could I see him? ""He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a very small genie. The friend says, ""I'm a good friend of your master. Will you grant me one wish? ""
""Yes I will,"" the genie said so he asks him for a million bucks and the genie hops back into his master's pocket and leaves the man standing there waiting for his million bucks. About this time, a duck walks into the bar followed by another. Then more ducks come pouring in. Before long the entire bar has ducks everywhere. The friend tells his buddy, ""What is going on here, I asked for a million bucks not ducks! ""He answers, ""I forgot to tell you the genie is hard of hearing. Do you really think I asked him for a 10 inch Bic? ""
Kiss and tell. Couple’s first kiss caught on Google Street View.
Eddie Bateman and his girlfrield Hayley Moss were out on a lovely afternoon, laying in the grass. After having spent some time together that day, the young gentleman rolls to his side and plants a kiss on his lady…right as the Google Street View car passes.
via thenextweb.com
all I can say is Awwwwww
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Drinking offers same benefits as Yoga
DRINKING OFFERS SAME BENEFITS AS YOGA
Balasana Setu Bandha Sarvangasana Marjayasana Halasana Dolphin Salambhasana Ananda Balasana Malasana
No matter what situations life throws at you.... No matter how long and treacherous your journey may seem.. Remember there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You're laughing aren't you? Have a great day and remember to give thanks....
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Corporations and Hypocrisy: Inconvenient truths about Google « counternotions
This, incredibly, is the same man who started his Google “evangelism” gig with the words “I hate it” referring to Apple and its App Store policies. In his new Corporations and Emotions post, he says I hate him essentially because I hate his employer, Google.
I know it’s a currently popular meme, but what’s with all this “hating” business? I neither hate Bray nor his employer. What I wrote speaks for itself, so I see no need to explain anything further, but just in case he’s not familiar with the history of this blog, though, I have covered and praised Google on many occasions in this space, on Twitter and elsewhere: Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots, to cite one example.
Very well written article
MacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story:[4]
- It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says "What's that package up there in the baggage rack?", and the other answers "Oh that's a McGuffin". The first one asks "What's a McGuffin?". "Well", the other man says, "It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands". The first man says "But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands", and the other one answers "Well, then that's no McGuffin!". So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.
via en.wikipedia.org
Sweet example!
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