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twenex
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response 50 of 62:
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Sep 2 20:07 UTC 2007 |
I consider all biblical scholarship as mostly
sophistry,
Funny. I often feel the same about Rane's inanely literalist rantings.
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rcurl
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response 51 of 62:
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Sep 3 06:00 UTC 2007 |
literal (ltr-l)
adj.
1. Being in accordance with, conforming to, or upholding the exact or primary
meaning of a word or words.
3. Avoiding exaggeration, metaphor, or embellishment; factual; prosaic: a
literal description; a literal mind.
5. Conforming or limited to the simplest, nonfigurative, or most obvious
meaning of a word or words.
Certainly better than what is done in biblical scholarship.
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djdoboy
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response 52 of 62:
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Sep 3 14:09 UTC 2007 |
Then there is the function literal in computer programming. Ie an anonymous
function.
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sholmes
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response 53 of 62:
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Sep 3 15:58 UTC 2007 |
Does anyone see that #51 proves #50 ?
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cross
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response 54 of 62:
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Sep 4 00:59 UTC 2007 |
Regarding #52; I think you mean `lambda'.
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remmers
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response 55 of 62:
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Sep 4 13:21 UTC 2007 |
Hey, let's get this item back on track by discussing connections between
point set topology and computer science.
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cross
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response 56 of 62:
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Sep 4 13:27 UTC 2007 |
Sure. There are many. What sort of abstractions can be modelled as
topological spaces?
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remmers
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response 57 of 62:
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Sep 4 16:34 UTC 2007 |
Lots, as I dimly recall from my graduate school days, where I was blown
away by applications of point set topology to mathematical logic. But
that's all in the distant past, and although I'm aware that connections
exist between topology and computational theory, I'll confess that
that's an area of computing in which I basically have no knowledge
whatsoever. I'm hoping that folks with more recent educations can
enlighten.
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cross
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response 58 of 62:
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Sep 4 20:59 UTC 2007 |
One area where I observed topology to be useful involved computational
biology. I was working on a system to do motif detection - basically,
detecting patterns - in genetic sequence data. I observed that certain
classes of patterns with special properties (which, unfortunately, I do not
recall at the moment) combined with a few operations formed a topology on the
space of sequences. It was interesting, though the details are a bit fuzzy
at the moment.
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djdoboy
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response 59 of 62:
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Sep 5 00:54 UTC 2007 |
Dan, I would say 'lambda', but older version of perl use anonymous functions
without the use of lambda.
Also, I started reading and proving some of the basic theormes in Point Set
Topology. I'm just blown away by the simplicity and elegance of the
Mathematics. The ideas of countability, bijection, mappings, etc. It's like
the first time the design of the Unix Operating System and Networking theory
sunk it. I was just blown away by the power and elegance.
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cross
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response 60 of 62:
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Sep 5 17:44 UTC 2007 |
But Chad, most of the things that you mention aren't really specific to
topology. A bijection is a type of mapping (one that happens to be both
injective and surjective, or 1:1 and onto), and countability certainly
transcends topology.
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scholar
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response 61 of 62:
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Sep 5 20:40 UTC 2007 |
i wonder if i could figure all this shit out
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djdoboy
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response 62 of 62:
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Sep 6 00:47 UTC 2007 |
The only thing I hate about topology is getting some kind of reasonable
visual. Seriously.
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