forms of chaos

http://alex.nisnevich.com/ecmachine/

forgive my folly, but i simply could not resist posting the link to a “browser based lisp shell that dreams to be an OS”. (pure awesomeness).

now follows an impromptu essay on the possible scheme of things, both simple and complex, and on the impossible scheme of things, both non-simple and non-complex.

(disclaimer "this essay is internally located in /blog/finitesimal/nonsense/ ; thence i advise thee to tread softly... lest thy sanity be nullified, and marked for recycling by the carbage gollector")

horology is the art, or science, of measuring time (courtesy: wikipedia); the gears that move the hands of the clock, are themselves moved by the gears that move the universe, matter and energy…

now if you happen to read certain ancient documents, horashastra for instance, you will behold scales of time, seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, decades, centuries, [yugas, manvantaras, kalpas] aeons, … all respecting the same mechanism of time scaling; 60 seconds make a minute, 60 minutes make an hour, 24 hours make a day… [4.32 billion years make a kalpa]…

if you feel you cannot proceed further without mastering the vedic time scales, i point you to…

http://oldthoughts.wordpress.com/ancient-indian-calendars/kalpas-yugas-manvantaras/

and also

http://oldthoughts.wordpress.com/ancient-indian-calendars/how-many-kinds-of-yugas-are-there/

as i see the world, i seem to hear the gears ticking away, the half-life that life actually is, fading away…

>> finite state automata are machines of revelation. the process of creating a finite state machine is one so intensely satisfying, yet humbling, it reminds me of programming (which, after all, it is a subset of (as programs are algorithms are turing machines include finite state machines)) …

… and what to speak of turing machines… torrid as they are, they are the ultimate training ground for superb programmers (or rather programmers who wish to be superb). try drawing an automaton for every program you write; feel free to create n number of languages and use N sets of arcane symbols; you will realize, firstly that you have “wasted” ridiculously huge amounts of time, and secondly, that writing your program (in whatever programming language) will seem effortless. practising with automata compares to running with weights, once you remove the practice weights, your legs seem to fly.

The reason for existence … is not apparent.
Whatever the reason.
Now now don’t you worry about that.
There is a reason
For every season
Do you deny it
Do you disdain it
Reality is much more than it seems
And appears to the veiled perception.
Reality is too great a burden, let the lie suffice…
Dive deep into the ocean of existence
And you will find the answer
You will find your destiny, and also
The reason for existence … will then be apparent.
Ω ∞