vol VII: Notes
2012
Notes
[Sunday 4 March 2012 - Saturday 10 March 2012]
[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]
Sunday 4 March 2012
Monday 5 March 2012
[page 127]
POTENTIAL = RELATIO
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Thursday 8 March 2012
Friday 9 March 2012
[page 128]
Saturday 10 March 2012
Transfixed with beauty
Transfixed with pain
People that kill one another often do it for unnecessary reasons, many of which are provided by fictitious religions.
There are two states - religious violence - evil/sin
religious cooperation - grace/peace
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Further reading
Books
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| Herbert, Frank, Dune, New English Library 1972 Jacket: 'Dune is the finest, most widely acclaimed science fiction novel of this century. Huge in scope, towering in concept, it is a work which will live in the reader's imagination for the rest of his life.'back |
Sacks, Oliver, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Vintage 2002 Amazon editorial review From Publishers Weekly
'Sacks, a neurologist perhaps best known for his books Awakenings (which became a Robin Williams/Robert De Niro vehicle) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, invokes his childhood in wartime England and his early scientific fascination with light, matter and energy as a mystic might invoke the transformative symbolism of metals and salts. The "Uncle Tungsten" of the book's title is Sacks's Uncle Dave, who manufactured light bulbs with filaments of fine tungsten wire, and who first initiated Sacks into the mysteries of metals. The author of this illuminating and poignant memoir describes his four tortuous years at boarding school during the war, where he was sent to escape the bombings, and his profound inquisitiveness cultivated by living in a household steeped in learning, religion and politics (both his parents were doctors and his aunts were ardent Zionists). But as Sacks writes, the family influence extended well beyond the home, to include the groundbreaking chemists and physicists whom he describes as "honorary ancestors, people to whom, in fantasy, I had a sort of connection." Family life exacted another transformative influence as well: his older brother Michael's psychosis made him feel that "a magical and malignant world was closing in about him," perhaps giving a hint of what led the author to explore the depths of psychosis in his later professional life. For Sacks, the onset of puberty coincided with his discovery of biology, his departure from his childhood love of chemistry and, at age 14, a new understanding that he would become a doctor. Many readers and patients are happy with that decision. (Oct.)Forecast: This book is as well-written as Sacks's earlier works, and should get fans engrossed in the facts of his life and opinions. Look for an early spike on the strength of his name, and strong sales thereafter.'
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Papers
| Bucur, Bogdan G, "Exegesis of Bibical Theophanies in Byzantine Hymnography: Rewritten Bible?", Theological Studies, 68, 1, 2007, page 92-112. 'This arrticle discusses the intepretation of biblical theophanies in Byzantine hymns associated with the so-called Improperia tradition. After presenting the exegesis of specific theophanies as exemplified in hymns, the author argues that this type of exegesis is difficult to frame within the categories commonly used to describe patristic exegesis. He suggests that patristic scholars should instead consider the category "Rewritten Bible" current among scholars of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.'. back |
| Knill, E, et al, "An algorithmic benchmark for quantum information processing", Nature, 6776, 404, 23 March 2000, page 368-370. Letters to Nature: 'Here we report an experimental relaisation of an algorithmic benchmark using an NMR technique that involves coherent manipulation of seven qubits'. back |
| Knill, E, "Quantum computing with realistically noisy devices", Nature, 434, 7029, 3 March 2005, page 39-44. 'In theory, quantum computers offer a means of solving problems that would be intractable on conventional computers. Assuming that a quantum computer could be constructed, it would in practice be required to function with noisy devices called 'gates'. These gates cause decoherence of the fragile quantum states that are central to the computer's operation. The goal of so-called 'fault tolerant quantum computing' is therefore to compure accurately, even when the error probability per gate (EPG) is high. Here we report a simple architecture for failt-tolerant computing, providing evidence that accurate quantum computing is possible for EPGs as high as three per cent. Such EPGs have been experimentally demonstrated, but to avoid excessive resource overheads required by the necessary architecture, lower EPGs are needed. Assuming the availability of quantum resources comparable to the digital resources available in today's computers, we show that non-trivial quantum computations at EPGs of as high as one percent could be implemented.' . back |
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