heh. I didn't mean to suggest that these people are crackpots.
But the number of crackpots who can introduce plausible-sounding papers is growing at a rate that might be concerning... or encouraging, depending on your point of view.
Despite all our current knowledge, it's still true that there is a lot we don't know about biology. I'm not saying we'll never figure it out, but given the current state of biology, it is still "mysterious" and a lot of questions about the origin(s) of life remain.
If you think you know or have all the answers, more power to you....
Uh, you think that if a small company can figure out how to manufacture 10 million doses in a month that it couldn't scale it up in an actual pandemic?
Plus, the existing big pharma companies don't have the technology to produce 300 million doses instantly, either.
Oh. you're actually totally right. The last line of our DailyDirt posts used to have a bit about StumbleUpon recommendations, but somehow (without thinking), I forgot about that part when I copy/pasted/edited... and I've been omitting our shout out to StumbleUpon by mistake.
I'll add a "via StumbleUpon" to let people know that's where the link is taking them.... We're not trying to fool anyone or anything like that, the omission was an honest mistake.
We're still "playing around" with these new ads... and we're finding out that sometimes some strange ads get on our site (and it can be hard to police our ads all the time).
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Thanks for finding that... it's nice to know someone out there cares enough to look up what's happened since Kamen started working on the Slingshot device.
sorry, wrong, there is a FINITE number of FINITE Sequences
IF that statement were true (it's not).. what is the largest finite sequence? You can't name it... because I'll just add one more number to it. The set is INFINITE.
And it's actually possible that some infinite sets of numbers are larger than other infinite sets of numbers. For example, the set of irrational numbers (which is infinite) is larger than the set of rational numbers (but the set of rational numbers is ALSO infinite). There are also more real numbers than natural numbers.
I am admittedly not a mathematician, but you may wish to review the work of Georg Cantor.
You are assuming a distribution within an infinite sequence that may not exist. As a previous commenter pointed out, an infinite sequence of non-repeating numbers could completely omit the number 9 and then would not contain ANY finite sequence that had a 9 in it.
Pi may very well contain every finite sequence, but you have certainly not proven it. I do encourage you to continue to try -- if you succeed, there may be practical applications in cryptography or other areas of math.
I will leave it to professional mathematicians to critique your future publications....
That is not proof. There are an infinite number of finite sequences.... Which infinity wins? Perhaps a thousand 5s in a row never appears in pi -- can you tell me if it does with certainty?
Despite the insults, you have not proven your assertion. Non-repeating infinite strings of numbers do not necessarily contain every finite sequence of numbers. A simple example: there could be an infinitely long string of numbers that NEVER contained the sequence 1234567890. Perhaps pi does or does not contain that sequence, but there are an infinite number of finite sequences -- it's difficult to really know.
If you can prove it, by all means, post your solution here!
Citation needed. Just because you have an infinitely long string of non-repeating numbers, it doesn't necessarily mean that every sequence possible is contained in that string. Perhaps it is true that every irrational number has this property but I don't think it's been proven.
not sure where "Organic matter degrades over time unless it's part of a living organism" comes from... because it's not entirely true. Some organic matter is quite stable, depending on the conditions, and it doesn't "need" to be part of a living cell. This is why we can recover DNA from (dead) fossils that is tens of thousands of years old... and why DNA is a reasonably good choice for molecular storage.
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But the number of crackpots who can introduce plausible-sounding papers is growing at a rate that might be concerning... or encouraging, depending on your point of view.
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Plus, the existing big pharma companies don't have the technology to produce 300 million doses instantly, either.
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We're just trying to give people a break from the copyright/trademark/patent/policy posts.
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Oh. you're actually totally right. The last line of our DailyDirt posts used to have a bit about StumbleUpon recommendations, but somehow (without thinking), I forgot about that part when I copy/pasted/edited... and I've been omitting our shout out to StumbleUpon by mistake.
I'll add a "via StumbleUpon" to let people know that's where the link is taking them.... We're not trying to fool anyone or anything like that, the omission was an honest mistake.
Apologies.
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sorry, wrong, there is a FINITE number of FINITE Sequences
IF that statement were true (it's not).. what is the largest finite sequence? You can't name it... because I'll just add one more number to it. The set is INFINITE.
And it's actually possible that some infinite sets of numbers are larger than other infinite sets of numbers. For example, the set of irrational numbers (which is infinite) is larger than the set of rational numbers (but the set of rational numbers is ALSO infinite). There are also more real numbers than natural numbers.
I am admittedly not a mathematician, but you may wish to review the work of Georg Cantor.
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Pi may very well contain every finite sequence, but you have certainly not proven it. I do encourage you to continue to try -- if you succeed, there may be practical applications in cryptography or other areas of math.
I will leave it to professional mathematicians to critique your future publications....
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If you can prove it, by all means, post your solution here!
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