Monday, March 28, 2011

Frère Jacques

Apparently, 40 years ago today my brother John, who died of brain cancer at the age of 5, was born. I only know this because my sister posted this on her facebook status. Lets put aside a discussion on appropriateness of using facebook for this kind of announcement (I don't think it is all that bad I guess) and think about whether I am a terrible person for having no idea of the significance of this date. Am I an insensitive son? Or am I just too busy? Or perhaps I am just so zen that I always live in the moment and I don't worry about things that happen 34 years ago. Would that make me insensitive? Is this post trapped in some sort of insensitivity loop?

>for (i in 1:infinity){
> if (moralcode[i] == IrishCatholic) Dr.TheBirdMan[i] >= insensitive
> elseif (moralcode[i] == ZenBuddhist) Dr.TheBirdMan[i] < insensitive
> else Dr.TheBirdMan[i] = 0
>}

2 comments:

  1. Character examination via r code? Fantastic idea Dr. The Bird Man!

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  2. I should develop and objective function (or value function, what ever you call it, is not a utility function) and then devise an algorithm to chose the optimal moral code. At first glance I am thinking Zen Buddhism is the way to go.

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