The answer is not necessary mathematically correct.
According to the Mathematician, the engineer will never reach his destination.
True, but then again, he doesn't really have to.
His destination is not the absolute position of the target, because 2 matters can never exist in the same absolution position.
All he needs to is to get near enough for him to start a conversation.
Not get inside her pants literally!
So the difference between an Engineer and a Mathematician?
One seeks for absolute answer, the other seeks for an answer that is close enough to solve the problem.
The question deals with the infinite amount of half life in a life cycle of a decaying nucleus.
Many scientists study the nucleus of radiating materials and half lives are used to estimate the lifespan of the nucleus before the radiation becomes negligible.. The half live chart is a graph which bend towards infinity when charted along the time axis.
Today is 30th July 2005.
Time is 9:46am
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Thursday, July 28, 2005
How many halves are there in a whole?
Today, I feel like sharing a joke.
A mathematician and an engineer was having a drink in a pub.
Together they saw a pretty young thing and was discussing how they should approach her.
The engineer suggested that he should just start walking towards the lady half the distance between them and then pause for a while, then walk half of the remaining distance, then pause for another few seconds. And this goes on, every half, a few moments of pause. This is so that he won't scare away the target by walking straight up directly.
The mathematician thought for a while and then rebutted the engineer.
"This way, you will never reach her! You will always have half the distance between the target and yourself, no matter how many half distances you travel towards her!" He replied.
Is the Mathematician correct in his statement?
Will the Engineer ever reach his desired destination?
A Philosophical Problem.
And a funny answer that defines the differences between a Mathematician and an Engineer.
Answers to be blogged tomorrow.
Today is 28th July 2005
Time is 4.17pm
An engineer is waiting for the engine to fail before he can commence his engineering work
A mathematician and an engineer was having a drink in a pub.
Together they saw a pretty young thing and was discussing how they should approach her.
The engineer suggested that he should just start walking towards the lady half the distance between them and then pause for a while, then walk half of the remaining distance, then pause for another few seconds. And this goes on, every half, a few moments of pause. This is so that he won't scare away the target by walking straight up directly.
The mathematician thought for a while and then rebutted the engineer.
"This way, you will never reach her! You will always have half the distance between the target and yourself, no matter how many half distances you travel towards her!" He replied.
Is the Mathematician correct in his statement?
Will the Engineer ever reach his desired destination?
A Philosophical Problem.
And a funny answer that defines the differences between a Mathematician and an Engineer.
Answers to be blogged tomorrow.
Today is 28th July 2005
Time is 4.17pm
An engineer is waiting for the engine to fail before he can commence his engineering work
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Increase your word power
Let's enrich our word power!!
I was discussing with my wife about the English vocabulary and exams etc.
We talked about how we dealt with having to learn English and passing its exams.
It appears there's no formula for learning English but to hear and see it more often.
Words itself doesn't really make sense on its own without being used in a context of a sentence.
Very often, English tests required the candidate to explain words that are used in a passage.
He is an "ardent" blogger whom has spent more time in front of his PC than actually doing any serious work.
So, my method would be to replace the "word" with something else which could make sense when being used in the same context. All the hints are trailing behind the "word", trying to make the reader understand more.
Rephrase it
If he is always " " about blogging, he can never get any serious work done.
He can be " " when blogging is concerned, but is he " " about his real occupation?
If he is such an " " blogger, who is doing the real work for him?
Is there anyone more " " than him when it comes to blogging?
The WORD today is ARDENT.
It means Passionate/Enthusiastic.
Through a good friend, I have enriched my word power today.
Today is 26th July 2005
Time is 10.30pm
Very soon, I am going to subscribe to Reader's Digest.
Investing in my word bank.
Increase my word power.
I was discussing with my wife about the English vocabulary and exams etc.
We talked about how we dealt with having to learn English and passing its exams.
It appears there's no formula for learning English but to hear and see it more often.
Words itself doesn't really make sense on its own without being used in a context of a sentence.
Very often, English tests required the candidate to explain words that are used in a passage.
He is an "ardent" blogger whom has spent more time in front of his PC than actually doing any serious work.
So, my method would be to replace the "word" with something else which could make sense when being used in the same context. All the hints are trailing behind the "word", trying to make the reader understand more.
Rephrase it
If he is always " " about blogging, he can never get any serious work done.
He can be " " when blogging is concerned, but is he " " about his real occupation?
If he is such an " " blogger, who is doing the real work for him?
Is there anyone more " " than him when it comes to blogging?
The WORD today is ARDENT.
It means Passionate/Enthusiastic.
Through a good friend, I have enriched my word power today.
Today is 26th July 2005
Time is 10.30pm
Very soon, I am going to subscribe to Reader's Digest.
Investing in my word bank.
Increase my word power.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Joy of Success
A success, no matter how small it is, brings sweetness to the person behind it.
A task set out to do and completed before expected end time.
A job well done exceeding what was requested.
Today, I succeeded in creating an online bulletin board.
This same task, last week, seemed impossible because I had neither the experience nor knowledge building up the board.
Even though I was in Malaysia most of the time in the last week, I kept thinking of how I can achieve this impossible task.
But today, just today, at 10-11am, I was reminded of this task again by a colleague.
Thanks to him, I fearfully clicked the downlink link which allowed me to download the software required.
Funny thing was, the fear of not knowing and not having experience of setting up the bulletin board, disappeared immediately when I started to work on it.
4 hours later, in the same day, the board was ready to be accessed by users.
"Once started, it's as good as 50% completed"
A famous Chinese saying. How true.... How true....
Well, no problems will be solved if the solution never starts.
And I am glad I am able to get success from this task which I thought I didn't have the capacity to take it on, and yet, I managed to conquer it.
Today is 25th July 2005
Time is 11.42pm
Doing the maths, working on the task 4 hours straight after 11am is only 4pm max.....
[ lunch hour included ].
A task set out to do and completed before expected end time.
A job well done exceeding what was requested.
Today, I succeeded in creating an online bulletin board.
This same task, last week, seemed impossible because I had neither the experience nor knowledge building up the board.
Even though I was in Malaysia most of the time in the last week, I kept thinking of how I can achieve this impossible task.
But today, just today, at 10-11am, I was reminded of this task again by a colleague.
Thanks to him, I fearfully clicked the downlink link which allowed me to download the software required.
Funny thing was, the fear of not knowing and not having experience of setting up the bulletin board, disappeared immediately when I started to work on it.
4 hours later, in the same day, the board was ready to be accessed by users.
"Once started, it's as good as 50% completed"
A famous Chinese saying. How true.... How true....
Well, no problems will be solved if the solution never starts.
And I am glad I am able to get success from this task which I thought I didn't have the capacity to take it on, and yet, I managed to conquer it.
Today is 25th July 2005
Time is 11.42pm
Doing the maths, working on the task 4 hours straight after 11am is only 4pm max.....
[ lunch hour included ].
Sunday, July 24, 2005
A series of possibilities!
A year back, there was this local movie in town.
It poked fun at the local punters, making every effort, of the local punter to get rich, looked silly.
There was this famous statement made by a punter, played by an actor whom is also a variety show host.
He said," Chances of winning the lottery is 50-50."
When questioned why, he replied, "You either strike or you don't strike".
The statement rested at the back of my mind registered as a comical joke.
I chanced upon a book recently in town.
101 Philosophy Problems
Author : Martin Cohen
It's a book which gives actual cases of real life philosophical paradoxes.
Is there life on Mars?
A question of statistics perhaps from the evidence of the data collected in countless space expeditions.
Finding sources of water or traces of moisture near its atmosphere will mean higher percentage of find extra-terrestial lifeforms before even reaching the planet.
If through telescope and high tech equipment, we can tell that the surface temperature of the planet is constantly 15000 degrees celsius, we can safely confirm that it is for 99.999% sure that no lifeforms can exist there without being scorched to death immediately when placed in that environment.
This question is actually in relation to statistics and probabilities.
Guessing from past samples collected to predict the upcoming cycle(s).
But did you know that in the absence of information, the answer to that very question is actually 50-50? And it applies for all questions that requires the answer to be logic.
Logic, used in the context here does not mean, making sense.
It actually means "0" or "1" or, "true" or "false", and "yes" and "no".
And though we have smart brains telling us, no living thing can exist in temperatures of 15000 degree celsius, but have we, humans, actually seen all the living things of this universe already?
By disproving ideas which are unknown to us, are we proving facts which can only exist in our domain [in this case, our own planet ]?
But then again, Mars is not on our planet, is it?
Think.
Ponder over the first question again
"Is there life on Mars?"
Today is 24th July 2005
Time is 11:32pm
It's a Sunday
My work week starts on Monday.
In my weekdays, I try ways and means to disprove faults reported by customers and use statistics and probability to re-ensure customers that they are just a small statiscally anomaly which only happens when equipment, freshly out of their retail boxes, fail for no reason.
And they keep nodding upon hearing my "statistical anomaly" pitch.
You dig?
It poked fun at the local punters, making every effort, of the local punter to get rich, looked silly.
There was this famous statement made by a punter, played by an actor whom is also a variety show host.
He said," Chances of winning the lottery is 50-50."
When questioned why, he replied, "You either strike or you don't strike".
The statement rested at the back of my mind registered as a comical joke.
I chanced upon a book recently in town.
101 Philosophy Problems
Author : Martin Cohen
It's a book which gives actual cases of real life philosophical paradoxes.
Is there life on Mars?
A question of statistics perhaps from the evidence of the data collected in countless space expeditions.
Finding sources of water or traces of moisture near its atmosphere will mean higher percentage of find extra-terrestial lifeforms before even reaching the planet.
If through telescope and high tech equipment, we can tell that the surface temperature of the planet is constantly 15000 degrees celsius, we can safely confirm that it is for 99.999% sure that no lifeforms can exist there without being scorched to death immediately when placed in that environment.
This question is actually in relation to statistics and probabilities.
Guessing from past samples collected to predict the upcoming cycle(s).
But did you know that in the absence of information, the answer to that very question is actually 50-50? And it applies for all questions that requires the answer to be logic.
Logic, used in the context here does not mean, making sense.
It actually means "0" or "1" or, "true" or "false", and "yes" and "no".
And though we have smart brains telling us, no living thing can exist in temperatures of 15000 degree celsius, but have we, humans, actually seen all the living things of this universe already?
By disproving ideas which are unknown to us, are we proving facts which can only exist in our domain [in this case, our own planet ]?
But then again, Mars is not on our planet, is it?
Think.
Ponder over the first question again
"Is there life on Mars?"
Today is 24th July 2005
Time is 11:32pm
It's a Sunday
My work week starts on Monday.
In my weekdays, I try ways and means to disprove faults reported by customers and use statistics and probability to re-ensure customers that they are just a small statiscally anomaly which only happens when equipment, freshly out of their retail boxes, fail for no reason.
And they keep nodding upon hearing my "statistical anomaly" pitch.
You dig?
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