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Obama To Receive Special Nobel Prize For Replacing Einstein's Theory

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:08:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Now is that solid or ain't it solid? I mean, except for that fart?"

"It's solid!"

"No little energy atoms with electrons, wantons and morons!"

The president then explained what an idiot Einstein actually was but everyone thought he was smart because he knew a lot of long words.

So you heard it here first. President Barack Hussein Obama has won a special Nobel Prize, replacing and disgracing that egghead, Einstein and his energy theory.

Obama went on to say, "Look we is all mad up of those atoms and electrons...they repel each other...they are racist....its all relative...you know there are 11 other universes...me and Michelle are hoping to retire to one of them."

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Obama To Receive Special Nobel Prize For Replacing Einstein's Theory

"The String Theory, Joe! The String Theory!"

President Barack Obama received a special award from the Nobel Prize committee today as his "What It Is, Is What It Is" Theory.

"Where Einstein went wrong, is saying that everything is made up of energy", explained the president, with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi at his knees on the floor, clapping furiously.

The President went on to say that that just ain't so.

"You look around you at those old farts on the park benches or laying at home on the couch saying, "Martha Jane, bring me another beer Hon, I can't leave this game for a second or I'll miss the key play of the whole three hour game."

"Of course, they'd show that play seventeen times on a replay but those apparently don't count."

"Now I ask you, is that energy in motion?"

"(Reid & Pelosi together) "No!"

"Looka here and I mean look close!"

He then dropped his pants and asked them both to kiss his ass, one on each cheek.'

Tags: obama, einstein, relativity

Another beautiful mind

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:16:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Using game theory, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts the future with a 90% success rate!

Clip Source: www.russiatoday.com

Predicting the future with the New Nostradamus

The CIA – in a declassified document -has stated that the work de Mesquita has done for them enjoys a success rate of 90%.

RT: The CIA gave you a success rate of 90% with your predictions. Can you give an idea of the high profile predictions you got right, and also where did you go wrong?

BBdM: Among the high profile predictions – that are at least in the public domain and I'm allowed to talk about are: I developed a strategy that helped to get Ferdinand Marcos to leave the Philippines to clear the way for Cory Aquino to be elected.

Also, there is one major organisation in the world that has both China and Taiwan in it – The Asian Development Bank. When China applied for membership, they demanded that Taiwan be kicked out. I designed the strategy that would get China to join and keep Taiwan in, and, 25 years later, that’s still the case.

If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:22:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Apparently "The total amount of information that can be absorbed by one individual during a lifetime is about 10^16 bits."

A visit to the source article is recommended.

Clip Source: www.universetoday.com

Theoretical physics has brought us the notion that our single universe is not necessarily the only game in town. Satellite data from WMAP, along with string theory and its 11- dimensional hyperspace idea has produced the concept of the multiverse, where the Big Bang could have produced many different universes instead of a single uniform universe. The idea has gained popularity recently, so it was only a matter of time until someone asked the question of how many multiverses could possibly exist. The number, according to two physicists, could be "humongous."

Using all of this (and more – see their paper here) Linde and Vanchurin calculate that the number of universes in the multiverse and could be at least 10^10^10^7,

The next question, then, is how many universes could we actually see?

the properties of the observer become an important factor

a limit to the amount of information that can be contained within any given volume of space, and by the limits of the human brain

Birth Control Pills Make Women Less Attractive...No seriously!

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:13:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From the Article: "Two researchers have reviewed the body of research on the effects of birth control pills on both women and men’s perceptions of attractiveness, and have come to some provocative conclusions. Women on the pill are less attracted to hyper-masculine men, they found, and don’t show the typical propensity towards men who are genetically dissimilar from themselves. In addition, women on the pill may lack the attractiveness edge that’s associated with ovulation, the study found."

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Are Birth Control Pills Changing the Mating Game?

An alarmist, tabloid-esque summary of the findings might read like this: Pill-taking women aren’t hotties, and they pick girlie men who are likely to give them ugly babies.

Then there’s the idea that women who are on the pill lack an attractiveness edge. The theory goes like this: Over the course of a menstrual cycle, hormonal fluctuation slightly alters woman’s facial appearance, her vocal pitch, even body odor. And during ovulation, those changes increase a woman’s attractiveness because they indicate fertility. While such cues are admittedly subtle, they do get noticed

The contraceptive pill alters monthly fluctuations in hormones associated with the menstrual cycle, mimicking the more stable hormonal conditions associated with pregnancy [New Scientist]. While mounting evidence suggests that having one’s hormonal levels smoothed out in this way alters some of the laws of attraction

Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:14:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: positions shifted. American and Israeli national-security players grudgingly accepted that they could tolerate Iran having some civilian nuclear-energy capacity. Ahmadinejad, Khamenei and the religious radicals wavered; then, as the model reached our present day, their power " another variable in Bueno de Mesquita’s model " sagged significantly.

Amid the thousands of rows on the spreadsheet, there’s one called Forecast. It consists of a single number that represents the most likely consensus of all the players. It begins at 160 " bomb-making territory " but by next year settles at 118, where it doesn’t move much. “That’s the outcome,” Bueno de Mesquita said confidently, tapping the screen.

What does 118 mean? It means that Iran won’t make a nuclear bomb. By early 2010, according to the forecast, Iran will be at the brink of developing one, but then it will stop and go no further. If this computer model is right, all the dire portents we’ve seen in recent months . . .

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Many people wonder, but Bruce Bueno de Mesquita claims to have the answer.

Bueno de Mesquita is one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists.

But among national-security types and corporate decision makers, he is even better known for his prognostications.

Since the early 1980s, C.I.A. officials have hired him to perform more than a thousand predictions; a study by the C.I.A., now declassified, found that Bueno de Mesquita’s predictions “hit the bull’s-eye” twice as often as its own analysts did.

At the beginning of the simulation, the positions were what you would expect. The United States and Israel and most of Europe wanted Iran to have virtually no nuclear capacity, so their preferred outcomes were close to zero. In contrast, the Iranian hard-liners were aggressive. “This is not only ‘Build a bomb,’ ” Bueno de Mesquita said, characterizing their position. “It’s probably: ‘We should test a bomb.’ ”

But as the computer model ran forward in time, through 2009 and into 2010

Tags: applied game theory, bruce bueno de mesquita, central intelligence agency, when will iran build the bomb

Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:01:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is Iran going to build a bomb?

With the help of his undergraduate class at N.Y.U., he researched the primary power brokers inside and outside the country " anyone with a stake in Iran’s nuclear future. Once he had the information he needed, he fed it into his computer model and had an answer in a few minutes.

A tall man with a slab of gray hair, Bueno de Mesquita, who is 62, welcomed me with painstakingly prepared cups of espresso. Then he pulled out his beat-up I.B.M. laptop " so old that the lettering on the A, S, D and E keys was worn off " and showed me a spreadsheet that summarized Iran’s future.The spreadsheet included almost 90 players. Some were people, like the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; others were groups, like the U.N. Security Council and Iran’s “religious radicals.” Next to each player, a number represented one variable in Bueno de Mesquita’s model: the extent to which a player wanted Iran to have the ability

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Bueno de Mesquita is one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists. A professor at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, he is well known academically for his work on “political survival,” or how leaders build coalitions to stay in power. But among national-security types and corporate decision makers, he is even better known for his prognostications. For 29 years, Bueno de Mesquita has been developing and honing a computer model that predicts the outcome of any situation in which parties can be described as trying to persuade or coerce one another. Since the early 1980s, C.I.A. officials have hired him to perform more than a thousand predictions; a study by the C.I.A., now declassified, found that Bueno de Mesquita’s predictions “hit the bull’s-eye” twice as often as its own analysts did.

Last year, Bueno de Mesquita decided to forecast whether Iran would build a nuclear bomb.

Tags: applied game theorist, bueno de mesquita professor at nyu, renowned prognosticator, senior fellow at stanford, twice as accurate as cia analysis

Top 10 Greatest Chess Players in History

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:10:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is no doubt that throughout the history of chess there have been many superb players who have reshaped and redefined the way the game is played. This list is an attempt to examine and categorize the greatest of those. No doubt there are many worthy names that could be added, but here is the Top 10 who I believe have rightly earned their places as the greats. The criterion used is based upon a number of factors including dominance over contemporaries, length of career at the top, contributions to chess and individual flair and brilliance. Please note this is not a head to head of who would beat who, as most modern professional players would dominate the forefathers of yesteryear due to developments in Chess Theory, but a historical look at the greats.

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Deep Blue

IBM (1989-1997)

It may seem odd to have a computer among the greatest chess players, but that’s exactly what this machine was designed to do, play chess.

It won 2, lost 1 and had 3 draws after being defeated by Kasparov

Paul Morphy

USA (1837-1884)

Many have claimed that Paul Morphy was the greatest chess player in history,

Mikhail Botvinnik

Russia (1911-1995)

A lifelong Communist, Mikhail Botvinnik held the World Championship on and off for 15 years,

Alexander Alekhine

Russia (1892-1946)

Bobby Fischer

USA (1943-2008)

Beginning at age 14, Fischer won 8 US Championships, including the 1963-64 Tournament 11-0, the only perfect score in its history.

Jose Capablanca

Cuba (1888-1942)

Jose Capablanca was World Champion from 1921-1927, and is often considered a candidate for the greatest player in history.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Austria (1836-1900)

Emanuel Lasker

Germany (1868-1941)

Anatoly Karpov

Russia (1951-)

Garry Kasparov

Russia (1963-)

His name is synonymous with chess.

Ouija Board Game Theories

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:07:50 GMT

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Clip Source: ouijaboardexperiences.com

How does the Ouija board do what a Ouija board does? Do you know how? Does anyone really know how? Who knows? I don’t! This is all part of the Ouija board game theory. There has been much conjecture for many years as to what it is that the Ouija board or the people who use the board tap into. What do you think?

Ouija Board Game Theory!

As long as the Ouija boards have been in use and as long as they continue to be bought, sold, and produced these arguments for and against the validity of the board will rage on and the Ouija board is not likely to go away any time soon! No matter what you believe, you will have to decide for yourself.

Tags: how to use a ouija board, ouija board rules, play ouija board, ouija board experiences, ouija board instructions

Chess Opening: Queen’s Gambit Theory to Practice

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:17:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you like the QG then this is a good start...

Clip Source: www.mychessblog.com

Chess Opening: Queen’s Gambit Theory to Practice

While learning the theories behind the chess openings especially with an eye to center control and development of pieces, you must understand that if both players could continue along the best theoretical lines, the game would end in a draw! But theory cannot take you to the end because if it could, there would not be any point in playing that kind of chess!

So a stage will come where theory comes to an end ideally with both players at level, and thereafter the players are on their own. The game is then decided through one player making some mistake, however slight it may be, and the other player being able to identify and exploit it. You will often notice that one may be able to get away with a minor mistake but situation keeps getting worse with each additional wrong move. Of course, a palpably bad move will draw the curtains on the game that much faster!

Wall Street on Speed

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:04:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As debates in the blogosphere in the last couple of days have made clear, there are a couple of possibilities of what is at work here. One is that Goldman and others are literally using privileged information to make trades ahead of markets, in which case they are committing a felony. Specifically, the abuse is known as "front-running," or trading ahead of customers, and it is an explicitly illegal form of market manipulation. Front running is epidemic on Wall Street--the whole point of an investment bank trading for its own account is to take advantage of its specialized knowledge of markets--and the SEC or the Justice Department shuts down front-running when it becomes too blatant to ignore.

The other possibility is that the Goldmans of the world have found themselves a nice loophole. Tapping into the Stock Exchange's own computers and other sources of trading activity is something that anyone in theory could do, but only a few privileged insiders have the sophistication to exploi

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Wall Street on Speed

"Nearly everyone on Wall Street is wondering how hedge funds and large banks like Goldman Sachs are making so much money so soon after the financial system nearly collapsed," wrote the Times' Charles Duhigg in a front page piece that was the talk of New York and Washington. "High-frequency trading is one answer."

Now, as then, it is a mark of Wall Street's stranglehold on politics that the most sensible of remedies seem impossibly radical. One very good way to damp down the dictatorship of the traders, and raise some needed revenue along the way, would be through a punitively high transactions tax on very short term trades.

If the financial crisis has proven anything, it is that capital markets have become an insiders' game in which trading profits crowd out the legitimate business of investment. The whole business-models of the most lucrative firms on Wall Street are a menace to the rest of the economy.

DNA Sudoku

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:31:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: more at source

Clip Source: www.scientificamerican.com

Researchers get help from a venerable number theory and a popular puzzle game to solve genetic medical mysteries

A 2,000-year-old math theorem, along with Sudoku, may soon help researchers untangle DNA at blazing speeds.

Hunting for a particular genetic mutation in hundreds of thousands of specimens can be an expensive and time-consuming process. In the past several years, faster multiplex DNA sequencing machines have sped up the acquisition of data, but researchers have still been hobbled by having to label each sample with a unique molecular identifier (or bar code) for analysis.

Scientists

are proposing a new take on a very old idea to tackle large data sets simultaneously. The team is applying the Chinese remainder theorem to pinpoint single samples in larger pools, which are arranged in rows and columns.

Tags: dna, mathematics

People attempt to reject free money out of anger

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:05:42 GMT

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Clip Source: arstechnica.com

Irrational markets: people reject free money out of anger

The Ultimatum Game, in which test subjects respond to take-it-or-leave-it offers, has allowed psychologists to explore how humans handle issues like fairness and punishment

But a new study shows some people attempt to punish even when the rules of the game are stacked in a way that makes it impossible

Game theory has provided researchers in a variety of fields, from psychology to economics, an opportunity to test human behaviors under controlled conditions. It allows big questions—are humans rational actors when money's on the line

humans aren't purely rational when it comes to monetary decisions, as they appear willing to make financial sacrifices in order to punish others in the name of fairness

A paper that will appear at PNAS this week takes things a step further and shows that people will still reject unfair monetary offers, even when the only one they punish is themselves

The ramifications of learning mathematics

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:36:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Question often asked by students: 'Why I need to learn mathematics?' You never know the ramifications for using such knowledge. Just check how the basic concept of a math game is making an impact in the field of medical genetics.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

DNA Sudoku: Logic Of 'Sudoku' Math Puzzle Used To Vastly Enhance Genome-sequencing Capability

A math-based game that has taken the world by storm with its ability to delight and puzzle may now be poised to revolutionize the fast-changing world of genome sequencing and the field of medical genetics, suggests a new report by a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The report will be published as the cover story in the July 1st issue of the journal Genome Research.

Combining a 2,000-year-old Chinese math theorem with concepts from cryptology, the CSHL scientists have devised "DNA Sudoku." The strategy allows tens of thousands of DNA samples to be combined, and their sequences – the order in which the letters of the DNA alphabet (A, T, G, and C) line up in the genome – to be determined all at once.

"In theory, it is possible to use the Sudoku method to sequence more than a hundred thousand DNA samples," says CSHL Professor Gregory Hannon, Ph.D.

Tags: math_awareness, mathematics, sudoku, puzzles

Download "The Big Bang Theory" Episodes : The Barbarian Sublimation

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:13:29 GMT

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The Barbarian Sublimation

Penny becomes addicted to an online game based on the world of Conan the Barbarian and persistantly pesters Sheldon for advice.

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Cheney's MAD

Fri, 15 May 2009 21:00:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Front the article:

"By raising the stakes over the torture issue with his repeated appearances, Dick Cheney isn't merely daring Democratic Congress and the Obama administration to investigate him and other members of the Bush torture team. Cheney's is a scorched earth game he believes he can win.

Cheney's MAD strategy goes something like this. If the DOJ or Congress proceeds with torture probes or prosecutions, Republican retaliation will be massive and total. Nominees will be blocked, legislation filibustered and the gridlock in Washington permanent. The blame for the carnage, the theory goes, will go to the side (in this case, Democrats) which launched the first strike. As Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."

Clip Source: crooksandliars.com

Dick Cheney's MAD, just not in the way you think. As Time, the AP and virtually every pundit across the political spectrum debate the meaning of Cheney's ubiquity on your television screen, it may be an old Cold War theory which best explains his strategy. The former vice president isn't merely trying to rewrite history or work the jury with his repeated claims that torture "saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives" and that there was "nothing devious or deceitful or dishonest or illegal about what was done." With his brinksmanship, Dick Cheney is threatening the political equivalent of Mutual Assured Destruction to produce a stalemate he apparently believes he will win.

All of which begs the question: why would a wildly unpopular figure who has proclaimed he has no future political ambitions mount such an unprecedented public campaign to criticize his successors?

Tags: cheney, dick, coward, bully, torturer, villain, war, criminal, mad