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Maybe, maybe not ? : [^].
"The physical universe is really like a movie/motion picture, in which a series of still images shown on a screen creates the illusion of moving images," Faizal said. "Thus, if this view is taken seriously, then our conscious precipitation of physical reality based on continuous motion becomes an illusion produced by a discrete underlying mathematical structure."
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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So, they think time is discrete? There is no 1/infinity timestep?
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Between the other steps.
Think of it like numbers: rational number and irrational numbers.
From the human point of view, all of time is spent on the steps of the irrational sort.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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When dealing with these issues one should never forget the distinct possibility that all theoretical physicists are either mad or merely figments of God's imagination.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Er, yeah, but that only proposes lack of fluidity of movement, except as expressed mathematically* -- the images are shown one after the other as a progression through time, which, last week, we thought was immutable.
Until, of course, an hour of that time just simply up and disappeared...
* But it's really more about the brain's capacity to compress, process, and store images, rather than the number-crunching that the guy, being a math-ophile, is fixated on
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, so half of "time" ("ti") can mutate into "it"!
You're a genius!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Summer/winter time begs to differ 
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The garbage collector is going to have its hands full if you have to instantiate a new time object every time it changes... Let's hope the clock isn't terribly precise!
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Except it wasn't! The real story is human writes headline so misleading and inaccurate that you'd think it was generated by AI, Shirley!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It would easier to write a code to create modern art.
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Quote: While the four stories were generated through AI, 80% of the work had human involvement. The novel was co-written by Hishoshi Matsubara, a professor of artificial intelligence at Future University Hakodate and his team at Future University in Japan. The team submitted their novel to Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, which accepts submissions from humans and machines.
Just like coding...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"The award had a four-stage screening process, and the details are not made public."
Stage 1: How much are you willing to pay to advance to Stage 2?
That's why only one of the four books (which, logically, should all have been of equal merit) got through; they couldn't afford more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... in an alien landscape. All seems strange and displaced, as if I have become detached from reality. Nothing is where it should be. Nothing is when it should be. I am alone in a .... eh? What? What do you mean they just put the clocks forward last night, that's all?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A little dwarf just walked around a corner, saw you, threw a little axe at you (which missed), cursed, and ran away.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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XYZZY
...just in case.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Plugh 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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<\nostagliatrip>
Ho Hum. Back to today's reality!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: What do you mean they just put the clocks forward last night, that's all?
No! That's not all. That stuff you're smoking has a lot to do with it! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Last night? No it was three days ago! You may have sleep over...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Maybe you've been listening to my Song of the Week a little too much for the past few days 
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I've been in another reality ever since I had a stroke a year and a half ago. I didn't plan on taking a year and a half unpaid vacation, honest!!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Today, whilst exploring deep comparison of .NET objects (nested-in-nested Types), I came across this remarkable open source library that uses reflection to compare object instances (recursive is an option, among many options).
Greg Finzer's CompareObjects [^].
This library does everything but walk the dogs, and the source is, imho, beautifully organized, structured, commented. Highly recommended reading, if you like reading good code: the different classes for comparing objects of various types in: \Compare-Net-Objects-master\Compare-NET-Objects\TypeComparers. What a delight to read code like this:
public List<string> MembersToIgnore { get; set; }Of course, there's equally great code here in CP articles !
In my fairly long (and very odd) pilgrim's progress through the digital world, I can't remember anything like the wealth of high-quality code that exists today ... prior to ten years ago.
Me thankful 
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
modified 27-Mar-16 9:31am.
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