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  • A comment on Conversation: Why is it that performance enhancing drugs are taboo ?

    Sep 22 2012: Is the goal to be "Fair" or to be the best?
    If I take a new memory enhancing drug before a spelling bee and memorize every word in the dictionary,did I cheat or did I do a great job?
  • A reply on Conversation: Piece of cake

    Sep 19 2012: If all the money in the world was equal to M then

    M+infinity=infinity

    Unless its Canadian money :)
  • A reply on Conversation: Piece of cake

    Sep 19 2012: Personally I dont see the beauty in it but I may not fully understand it.

    How about a circle of one dimension with a particle inside...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_ring
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    A comment on Conversation: Do you think there is a benefit in providing a percentage of courses within every college free and online?

    Sep 18 2012: Yes.Absolutley critical. .No transportation,distance or scheduling problems.No discrimination.There are not as many social distractions online.


    Will tradtional classrooms become obsolete? Lots of cost ,time and resource disadvantages. Will the next generation of SIRI or IBM's Watson know a better answer to your question than your professor?

    And if takes dictation and types PDF will you be able to ...
  • A comment on Conversation: Do you find it difficult to engage in intellectual conversations with people in general?

    Sep 17 2012: PI isnt really an infinite quanity.PI is a circular boundary in a two dimensional plane.Very limited within still more limits.

    If you were to draw a cirlce and have a 4 year old child trace their finger around the perimeter until they came to the end and got them started it does not take long before they exclaim-there is no end.

    This is the type of insght a super computer cannot master yet.It follows the instrucion to find the end of a continuos line endlessly and never reaches a conclusion.

    The vexing question I have is whether or not the PI ratio and its infinite non repeating digit quality hold significance outside of the boundary of circular two dimension plane.A commutation of its infinite ratio property outsdie of its dimensional boundaries if you will.
  • A comment on Conversation: Is it possible for an individual to be without ethnocentrism?

    Sep 17 2012: People have influence over one another in ways that are mostly not very well understood much like dark matter and dark energy.Interesting you highlight it as a problem in marriage as ethnic and gender issues share common traits.

    Physical attraction and the complex decision tree choices we make socially are inherently self-biased or alternately altruistic with an undercurrent of self benefit.

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