Originally posted by Acton
I don't think a thread like this has been created before, so it.... I made one (actually I'm sure there is one, but I can't be arsed look for it).
I guess it could be a thread for some awesome science related stuff? I'm sure there's one in the forum somewhere, but search is broke.
Anyway...
I don't usually dive into biology, as it's not fundamental enough, but add math with biology and you have a winner..... so I figured out something rather interesting (I'm clearly not the first to realise the below statement by the way, but tonight was the first time I figured it out, so it was somewhat a personal revalation).
So....
I have 2 parents....and they both had 2 parents....and they in turn had 2 parents.... so if I go back 3 generations, there are 8 people who contributed to my genetic code, how awesome is that?! .......... Not so much, the problem is, if we take this mathematical logic back to ONLY 32 generations ago, my (and indeed everyone else's as this isn't a special case) genetic code must have logically come from circa 6 billion 'parents'.......... which is a number larger than the current population of the planet.........
........ Conclusion? - we're all members of a genetically non-diversified, INBRED species and we're all technically related
Science, yeah!
sure
The history of England concerns the study of the human past in one of Europe's oldest and most influential national territories. What is now England, a country within the United Kingdom, was inhabited by hominids 800,000 years ago as the discovery of flint tools at Happisburgh in Norfolk have revealed
Wow! I guess the question of whether someone in a vegetative state is conscious or not, has just been answered. Back to the drawing board indeed.
Intellekshual
100,000 Stars is a new experiment for Chrome web browsers (or any other WebGL browser like Firefox or Safari) that lets you interactively explore the Milky Way galaxy with your mouse and scroll wheel. It's gorgeous and well worth exploring.
Acton
Phwoar, that's quite sexual. If only it covered the entire Milky Way, with over 100 billion+ stars!
meriter
^ Yep awesome. Have you seen this? I wish I could do sound for these projects :(
Lagrangian
'Petri Nets, Discrete Physics, and Distributed Quantum Computation'-
Samson Abramsky
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Abstract. We shall describe connections between Petri nets, quantum physics and category theory. The view of Net theory as a kind of discrete physics has been consistently emphasized by Carl-Adam Petri. The con- nections between Petri nets and monoidal categories were illuminated in pioneering work by Ugo Montanari and Jose Meseguer. Recent work by the author and Bob Coecke has shown how monoidal categories with certain additional structure (dagger compactness) can be used as the set- ting for an effective axiomatization of quantum mechanics, with striking applications to quantum information. This additional structure matches the extension of the Montanari-Meseguer approach by Marti-Oliet and Meseguer, motivated by linear logic.
To a large extent, and by design, Net Theory can be seen as a kind of discrete physics: lines are time-like causal flows, cuts are space-like regions, process unfoldings of a marked net are like the solution trajectories of a differential equation.
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
FAO: Linguistic Scientists
Post-Quantum Diffie-Hellman and Symmetric Key Exchange Protocols
Xiangdong Li, Lin Leung, A.C.T. Kwan, Xiaowen Zhang, D. Kahanda, M. Anshel
New York City Coll. of Technol., City Univ. of New York, Brooklyn, NY
07/2006; DOI:10.1109/IAW.2006.1652122 In proceeding of: Information Assurance Workshop, 2006
ABSTRACT
If an eavesdropper Eve is equipped with quantum computers, she can easily break the public key exchange protocols used today. In this paper we discuss the post-quantum Diffie-Hellman key exchange and private key exchange protocols.
