A Little Less Chaos In The World

[filkertom]

Mathematician Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, discoverer of "strange attractors", and coiner of the term "butterfly effect", has passed away at the age of ninety.

What's your favorite mathematical law, constant or formula? I'm an e=mc² man myself, although π and i will always hold special places in my heart.

ETA: And how could I forget the tesseract?

Comments

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I just added a link up above. Bradbury wrote about the concept in 1952, but Lorenz coined the specific phrase in 1961.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

OK, didn't mean to be a noodge about it. [contrite]

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's fine. What is science, but questioning for the truth?

Okay, it's also monsters and mutations and satellite death rays and minions and mad cackling laughter and crumpled receipts from Acme Co. and Agatha Heterodyne in a corset. But apart from that....

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Hee. We need to drag you into Second Life for a visit to the Consulate of Europe Wulfenbach. Maybe a virtual concert. What do you think, sirs?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Very possible. Actually, I signed up with Second Life about a month ago, with the intention eventually of opening a music store there, if I can ever figure out the whys and wherefores. And I was figuring on a concert every once in awhile just for fun. Haven't spent much time on there, though. If you see a FilkerTom Smythe, that's me.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a snap.

You have a store with the songs listed adn the price (in Lindens, you know - est 270L per dollar). When they pay, they get a notecard with teh URL to the song's location on the web for them to download. Include a comment that they have only 7 days to get the song from the website.

On the website, you have all the html and songs in two directorys, 001 and 002. Every week, you increment both directories by one and you have everything in 002 and 003 now. No matter when they buy the song, the location on the web will be valid for at least 7 days and as much as 14 days. After that, the URL doesn't work anymore. Thus you need not fear the URL being passed around the internet and 10^6 people downloading it when you only made one sale.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

btw: I'd be thrilled if I could play a tune of yours at the club I DJ at, then introduce you as the musician so you can take a bow. We all love your work.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

I would love to see that!
I need a new setup for second life anyway.