Category: philosophy

I ask chatGPT, “Can you write a poem about pi and probability?”

Of course, I can! Here's a poem about pi and probability:

In circles round, we find Pi's sound,
An irrational number, never to be found.
With digits vast and never-ending,
Infinite, yet always pretending.

For Pi is more than just math, 
A symbol of the world's path, 
Where probabilities run amok, 
And uncertainty's the rule of luck.

Like rolling dice, the odds we take, 
A game of chance, a risk we make. 
The probability's a fickle friend, 
A measure of how much we bend.

For in the midst of all this mess, 
We see Pi's pattern nonetheless. 
A ratio constant, never-changing, 
A comfort in a world so ranging.

So let us embrace the unknown, 
And let probability be our throne. 
For in the chaos and the strife, 
Pi's constancy is the thread of life.

Yes, there is one. Actually, I am finding there is a day for almost everything. And when the world runs out of causes, we celebrate celebrities birthdays.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. —Galileo Galilei

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. – Carl Sagan

On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. – Charles Babbage

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. – Ada Lovelace

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’ – Isaac Asimov

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. – Alan Turing

It is becoming clear that most great ideas have already been expressed. It is but necessary to sort them from all of the other ideas.

第七天 Another “transliteration” of Day Seven, from Chinese. A browser didn’t like the Chinese characters as a file name.

I just find it interesting that seven in Simplified Chinese is qi. For some in the west seven is considered a lucky number. A reasonable translation of qi, is “life energy”.

In my opinion, it is interesting to contrast the view of our world through the minds of the “East” and of the “West”. Anything I write would be oversimplifications of these views. Perhaps when I become better at moving thoughts from mind to print I will address this. For now suffice it to say, “I find this an interesting topic.”

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

— Ken Cohen

Time is but a state of mind.

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

The more I read the more I think there is significant ‘truth’ in fiction and much fiction in ‘truth’.