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	<title>Friendly Tentacle Monster</title>
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		<title>I like short words I&#8217;ve never heard of.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Slovenian cave salamanders, anyone?

	If it weren&#8217;t for it being the featured article, I&#8217;m not sure I would have ever found it.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm">Slovenian cave salamanders</a>, anyone?</p>

	<p>If it weren&#8217;t for it being the featured article, I&#8217;m not sure I would have ever found it.</p>


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		<title>Copenhagen interpretation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Copenhagen interpretation &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Many physicists and philosophers have objected to the Copenhagen interpretation, both on the grounds that it is non-deterministic and that it includes an undefined measurement process that converts probability functions into non-probabilistic measurements. Einstein&#8217;s quotations &#8220;God does not play dice&#8221; and &#8220;Do you really think the moon isn&#8217;t there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation">Copenhagen interpretation &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p>

	<p><blockquote>Many physicists and philosophers have objected to the Copenhagen interpretation, both on the grounds that it is non-deterministic and that it includes an undefined measurement process that converts probability functions into non-probabilistic measurements. Einstein&#8217;s quotations &#8220;God does not play dice&#8221; and &#8220;Do you really think the moon isn&#8217;t there if you aren&#8217;t looking at it?&#8221; exemplify this. Bohr, in response, said <em>&#8220;Einstein, don&#8217;t tell God what to do&#8221;</em>.</blockquote></p>

	<p>Today&#8217;s train of thought started with the functional resource economies from Raph&#8217;s Website, led me to thinking about dynamic systems and eventually to quantum mechanics (as stochasticness is a necessary pet project for probabilists) and to this rather interesting quotation, regardless of its veracity.</p>

	<p>Anyway.  Read the 3 posts on <a href="http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/06/05/uos-resource-system-part-3/">Raph&#8217;s website</a> and help me brainstorm some system to implement to pass the time.  Studying some bifurcation maps would be much more interesting provided one knew it were modelling &#8220;units of goodness&#8221; and the current exchange rate for &#8220;Nick&#8217;s mom&#8221; or what have you. </p>

	<p>[Kevin edit]: Oh the idea was to potentially add some stochastic perturbation and incorporate it into some kind of widget to check in on occasionally.  Oh man, I clearly got a kick out of all the maxis games as a kid.  Well not SimFarm.  I mean wtf. SimFarm?</p>


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		<title>Four-character idiom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Misc.</category>
	<category>God+1</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Four-character idiom &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	起(ki)

	承(shō)
転(ten)
結(ketsu)
&#8220;Start, Continue, Change, Conclusion&#8221;

    Usage/Moral: This is the simplest way to make a story or a poem.

	So true. Actually if anyone has other resources for these in either Chinese or Japanese, post links.



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-character_idioms">Four-character idiom &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p>

	<p><blockquote>起(ki)</p>

	<p>承(shō)<br />
転(ten)<br />
結(ketsu)<br />
&#8220;Start, Continue, Change, Conclusion&#8221;</p>

    Usage/Moral: This is the simplest way to make a story or a poem.</blockquote>

	<p>So true. Actually if anyone has other resources for these in either Chinese or Japanese, post links.</p>



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