have you ever thought about what its like for those people you may know who don’t have internet at their houses? strange, huh? totally different world. what about people in africa, who don’t even have calculators? what about back in the early ’90s (i know, eons ago), when no one had the internet or desktops (who has a desktop these days?)

here in the US of A, we have the right to assemble (like at parties and protests), but do we have the basic, human right to connect and assemble on the internet? is that even a basic right?

the internet, computers, and software have allowed us so much (like this blog post here), which creates a massive divide between those that have it, and those that don’t: like the divide between those w/ a college degree, and those without one, or the divide between the first world and the third world, industrial countries and non-industrial ones. 

what’s important, is that if there is a third world, and a first world which is immeasurably better and freer, then there is also a world cut off from the internet, and one that isn’t, which is immeasurably better and freer, as well

and even if you are like me, and live in the first world, with daily and continual internet access, you might be which is immeasurably worse off and less free than another group that is pulling ahead of you (or i would argue, 2): and that is the people who MAKE the internet, as opposed to the rest who only read or don’t understand: the bloggers, the programmers, and the website architects.

does it really matter if you’re a dictator in the middle east, when many millions more are watching some 12-year-olds tweeting in real-time?

wiki on the digital divide - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide

more areas for further research - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_citizen,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy

btw, world information society day is may 17 (a day created by the UN to foster digital citizenship)

padded-walls:

deviantART is tring to make a top level internet domain strictly for the art community: .ART!

support the effort here: http://spyed.deviantart.com/journal/Help-support-our-application-to-manage-ART-316764084?utm_source=deviantart&utm_medium=header&utm_campaign=072512_MKT_Dadotart

SongSaturday: warrior concerto

by the glitch mob

hyperoperations are one mathematical way to process numbers, and include:

addition,

subtraction,

multiplication,

division,

exponentiation (powers),

and roots (like the square root)

you see, multiplication is repeated addition:

3*4=12 , 3+3+3+3=12

and powers are repeated muliplication:

3^4=81 , 3*3*3*3=81

and subtraction and division and roots are their inverses:

3+4-4=3

3*4/4=3

4th root of (3^4)=3

so what if you continue this pattern?

well, repeated exponentiation (powers) is called tetration (because it is the 4th hyperoperation), 

3 tetrated by 4=7,625,597,484,987 and 

(((3^3)^3)^3)=7,625,597,484,987

tetration also has corresponding hyperroots and hyperlogarithms as inverses.

repeated tetration is pentation, and you can keep going forever from there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperoperation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth’s_up-arrow_notation (for one way of writing all this)

SongSaturday: Breathe

by skrillex featuring kerwella

SongSaturday: I wanna go (nightcore remix)

by britney spears

IDK who nightcored it, MAYBE the uploader to youtube dragon613

new posts on saturday (starting with a SongSaturday).

hiatus (we’ll see…) for thanksgiving,

see you on monday!

(((really, i don’t have any ideas today, and feel like vegging)))

when you multiply a number by itself, you get a positve number:

x * x = x^2

-x * -x = x^2

and the square root is the number thats, multiplied by itself, yields a given number (its the inverse of squaring):

sqr( x ) = y * y OR -y * -y

however, sense no real number times itself yields a negative number, so what are the square roots of negative numbers?

sqr( -x ) = { }

but what if there was? and there is: its called ( i ). (for imaginary, and because we don’t really know its value)

sqr( -1 ) = i1

so ( i1 ) is the square root of ( -1 ), and all other imaginary numbers are multiples of ( i ). (ie. {…, i1, i2, i3, …} ). there are even negative imaginary numbers.

imaginary numbers are independent of real numbers (like other variable coefficients) and thus complex numbers (a value with a real and an imaginary part, ie. ( x + iy ) ) must be graphed in two dimensions, r (real) and i (imaginary) rather than X and Y.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number

(click for cool .gif)

Fractals are the result of a body of math or an algorithm.

a fractal is a geometric shape that has the property of self symmetry, where parts or regions of the shape are analogous to the whole, other parts, and its own subparts. they are generally not the graphs of an equation, but are the result of an iterated (recursive) algorithm, or from a body of math that produces a region of solutions (like the Mandelbrot set above, which is the graph of a set of complex numbers (X and Y coming from their real and imaginary components)).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

SongSaturday: two faced lovers

by hatsune miku

NOTE: remember to turn on comments in the player for subtitles/lyrics

light unable to cross in age of universe

hubble sphere

there are multiple reasons for this (maybe i’m missing some):

1. given the speed of light, in all likelihood (we can’t tell) the diameter of the universe is larger than the distance light can travel in the age of the universe; so that light has yet to reach us, and 

2. given that the universe is expanding (so that all objects appear to be receding at a speed proportional to their distance when observed from any point in the universe), after a certain distance (called the hubble distance, which varies), the rate of expansion of distance is the same as or more than the speed of light: so that that light will NEVER reach us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_sphere

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

the graph of the amount of energy needed to accelerate from rest to a given speed (energy on Y-axis, speed on X-axis) is hyperbolic/asymptotal: the proportions are rather consistent, until you get to relativistic speeds (speeds that are a significant fraction of the speed of light) where the required energy jumps to near infinity in only a small change in speed. because c (the speed of light) is the asymptote, the energy needed to get to it is infinite. one the other side, tachyons (which may or may not exist) share the same traits in reverse: a tachyon requires infinity energy to *DE*celerate to the speed of light, and accelerates as it losses energy.

relativist poetry time!:

there once was a woman named Bright,

who could travel faster than light.

she went out one day,

in a relative way,

and returned on the previous night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light